Display variations and options

I've got a number of issues with the display options - looked through the documentation and didn't find much help.

The products appear different on different pages - but I can't find way to unify that. For example - the main shop page has a perfect outline and fill on the box, but if you click on a category and go in - those products are laid out differently. What's the easiest way to make them uniform?

Also - I don't like to crop the thumbnail images - as that can cut off crucial parts of my product info, but when I keep aspect ratio, the surrounding box is white. I want them to be the same colour as the box. How can I do that?

Finally - how do I create a sidebar menu that is only on the category views etc - but not on the actual product page.

Spent a few hours trying to establish how to fix this lot, but no luck. Figured I should ask here as support is included right?

Many Thanks

hi
best is to give access to the real dynamic page . Since each page can contain differents areas, those areas can change the layout templates . if you ask question without give access to ressources ( link) , I ll not be able to help you ... i don't know for others !

regard's

Hi,

1. Please provide the links to the pages you're talking about and we can tell you. Your description is too vague to tell you which menu/module to edit and how.

2. A link would have been great here too. How about trying to turn off the "force size" option ? That way, you don't have to choose between cropping or keeping the aspect ratio with a white background.

3. You could simply enable the "hikashop categories listing : 1 level" module that is installed by default via the Joomla modules manager.

Here's the link - though I must stress the site is incomplete: orangereel.net/ordecal/

As an example for issue 1 - this page ( orangereel.net/ordecal/index.php?option=...t=listing&Itemid=145 ) has a different look to this page orangereel.net/ordecal/index.php?option=...t=listing&Itemid=107 with regards to the product divs.

2 - The force size issue makes the divs all different sizes - which is just messy. I just need the surrounding colour to match the background, not white.

3 - Can't find that module. Even when I go to New Module option - it's not listed

Hi,

1. The difference I see on your products listing is the background color of your product divs. Simply configure them with the same color and it will display the same. You can do that by editing the options of your products listing modules (ids 89 and 111 on these links) via the menu Display>Content modules.

2. Then change the line:
$bgcolor = $this->_getBackgroundColor($thumb, @$option);
to:
$bgcolor = $this->_getBackgroundColor($thumb, '#CCC');
in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/helpers/image.php and that will change the background color after you delete the thumbnail folders in media/com_hikashop/upload

3. Then it means that you must have deleted the module instances. In that case, you can recreate such categories listing module as explained in this tutorial:
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...ml#categories_module

1 worked perfectly

2 created the following error and prevented my access


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/02/10806402/html/ordecal/administrator/components/com_hikashop/helpers/image.php on line 449

Kept playing and this worked,
$bgcolor = $this->_getBackgroundColor($thumb, @'CCC');

thanks