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RANDOM PRODUCT FROM YOUR OSCOMMERCE IN A GEEKLOG BLOCK

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:51 pm
by Stevyn
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DISPLAY A RANDOM PRODUCT FROM YOUR OSCOMMERCE CATALOG IN A BLOCK IN GEEKLOG
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Original code by Patrick Veverka (oscommerce contribution).
Modified for geeklog use by StevynProthero@ironfeather.com

version 2.0 changes: now price is formatted and only current products "in stock" picked.
product status code fix from thomask@rainbowcomputers.ca contribution on oscommerce.


See it in work at http://lansingsucks.com
it pulls from my catalog at http://globalgoodys.com

Discussion on this code are at:

http://ironfeather.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ikon ... T&f=20&t=6


This is how I show a random product from a oscommerce catalog in a geeklog block...


1. Enter into your ADMIN area of geeklog, enter into the Block Manager and then click on "New Block". Input title & name and then select "PHP Block" from the option box. Input "phpblock_randomshop" in the Block Function field. Click SAVE.

2. edit and add the following code to your lib-custom.php file located in the geeklog/system directory.

things you need to edit:

"host", "username", "password", "catalogname",

"globalgoodys.com/catalog" to be the url of your oscommerce catalog.

//here is the code to insert into lib-custom.php

Code: Select all

function phpblock_randomshop() {

//Original code by Patrick Veverka.
//Modified for geeklog use by Stevyn Prothero. version 2.0

$connection = mysql_connect("host","username","password")
or die("Couldn't make connection.");

$db = mysql_select_db("catalogname", $connection)
or die("Couldn't select database.");

$sql = "SELECT * FROM `products` where products_status = '1' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1";

$sql_result = mysql_query($sql,$connection)
or die("Couldn't execute quasery.");

$row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result);

$products_id = $row["products_id"];
$products_price = $row["products_price"];
$products_model = $row["products_model"];
$products_image = $row["products_image"];

$sql2 = "SELECT `products_name` FROM `products_description` WHERE products_id = '$products_id' LIMIT 1";
$sql2_result = mysql_query($sql2,$connection)
or die("Couldn't execute query.");
$row2 = mysql_fetch_array($sql2_result);

$products_name = $row2["products_name"];
$products_image_replace = str_replace("./", "/", $products_image);
$products_price_replace = str_replace(".0000", "", $products_price);
$products_price_replace = sprintf("%0.2f",$products_price_replace);

$retval = 
"<center><a href=\"http://globalgoodys.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=$products_id\">";
$retval .=  "<img src=\"http://globalgoodys.com/catalog/images/$products_image_replace\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\"><br>";
$retval .= "$products_name   \$$products_price_replace</a></center> ";
return $retval;
mysql_free_result($sql_result);
mysql_close($connection);
}


Re: RANDOM PRODUCT FROM YOUR OSCOMMERCE IN A GEEKLOG BLOCK

Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 2:54 pm
by Stevyn
update: my email & links in the above infos is out of date but the code should still work as oscommerce hasn't changed much.