Having trouble putting Featured Listings on my Home Page

[michael]

Okay I'm starting to understand now. Thing is Larry I want the featured ads to appear only on the homepage which is not a template file at all - it's just a plain old html page added, as you say, via the 68C admin.

Surely others have featured or random ads appearing only on the Home Page?

[michael]

It's home.tpl isn't it? Now I just have to work out how to place that code to make the ads appear on the far left by the side of the 68C added Home Page.

Is that even possible? Will Home Page (html) always be above home (.tpl)?

[seymourjames]

You got it.

The instructions say

The functions should be downloaded and placed in your includes/smarty/plugins directory.

Add this code to your css/style.css file

.feat_width{width:100%;}
.feat{width:116px; height:178px; float:left; padding:12px 8px 5px 8px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 3px; border:#CCCCCC 1px solid; }
.feat_img {width:100%; text-align:center;}
.feat_txt {width:100%; color:#666666; height:50px; overflow: hidden; text-align:center;}
.feat_price {width:100%; color:#185221; font-size:10px; padding-top:15px; text-align:center; }

Then you can place (in this case) the following line into your home.tpl file where you wish it to appear.

{css_feature_listings_horizontal number=6}

If my instructions are not clear enough I would appreciate some feedback. It is often difficult to be totally clear. A lot of people have been to this page.

classifieds scripts

[bowers01]

You can put it in any file you want. Just rap it in
{if $body=='home.tpl'}
Show
{/if}

Nick

[seymourjames]

It is best to position it explicitly in the pages (.tpl files) where you want it - much more obvious. Top of home page, middle of home page, at the bottom of the search page, at the top of showlistings, etc.

[michael]

Thank you all for your help. I took Seymours code, fiddled with it a bit to suit my site and it looks great! Click the link in my sig'.

For anyone else - definately use home.tpl to display your home page.

[Mike-N-Tosh]

Tastes Great! Less Filling!

... oh wait, that's something else.

Looks good Michael. Excellent job and glad you got it working.

-Mike