Zen Cart Better Together Centerbox

The Better Together Centerbox is a centerbox - just like the New Products, Featured Products and Monthly Specials Centerboxes. It shows off all your Better Together linkages. It appears on your main page and may (optionally) also be put on the index page for categories and product lists, the product info page and the shopping cart page.

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Relevance: Zen Cart™ 1.3.8, 1.3.9 and 1.5.0, along with Better Together.

This extension is part of the Better Together World.

Cost: The Better Together Centerbox is Free, but donation appreciated. The I Want Both button is $20.00. Buy Now!

Location: Zen Cart Downloads page, under Marketing Tools

Download: Better Together Centerbox from Zen Cart Downloads Page

Installation Instructions: click here

Installation Difficulty: Easy-Moderate (Professional installation available for $60)

Current Version: 1.0a (1.0d for I Want Both)

Support Thread: Better Together Centerbox Support Thread

Bugs: click here

See it live: Sample Better Together Discount Centerbox
(Note that the sample also uses I Want Both.)

FAQ: click here

osCommerce User? This is a Zen Cart page. Look at the Better Together for osCommerce World for osCommerce help.

The Better Together Centerbox displays your Better Together discounts on your main page with descriptive text and images. Discounts are shown in a series of table rows that look like this:

If desired, you can also add a button to buy both products with one click. This is a paid upgrade to the Better Together Centerbox.

Note that for the I Want Both button to work, both items in the Better Together linkage must be products, and neither may have attributes. (In other words, add_prod_to_prod and add_twoforone_prod linkages are supported.)

The Better Together Centerbox with I Want Both is $20.00. Note that for I Want Both to work, both items in the Better Together linkage must be products, and neither may have attributes. The discount will still be displayed but the button will not if either item is a category or a product with attributes.

Note that I Want Both works best with Discount Preview. This way, customers can see their discount on the shopping cart page instead of having to wait for the Checkout Payment page.

Installation Instructions:

Back up everything! Try this in a test environment prior to installing it on a live shop.
Copy the contents of the unzipped folder to the root directory of your shop.
The names of these files reflect a template name of "custom." If you are using a different template name, please change file paths using "custom" to use your template name instead.
You may also add the Better Together Centerbox to the following other pages:
```
tpl_index_categories.php
tpl_index_product_list.php
tpl_product_info_noproduct.php
tpl_shopping_cart_default.php
```
Just copy these files from includes/templates/template_default/templates to includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates (if they don't already exist). Then for each one, look for the line that starts with "while" and put the following line right before it:
```
require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_better_together.php',
       DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). 
       '/tpl_modules_better_together.php');
```
The default number of offers to be shown is three; to change this number, just change the variable $MAX_BETTER_TOGETHER_OFFERS in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_modules_better_together.php

Major Versions for Better Together Centerbox

1.0a 04/09/2011 - Small bug fix in includes/templates/custom/templates/tpl_index_default.php
1.0 04/02/2011 - First Release

Major Versions for Better Together Centerbox with I Want Both

1.0d 11/02/2011 - Packaging error in 1.0c.
1.0c 10/15/2011 - IWB button wrong for prod to prod.
1.0b 07/16/2011 - Validation error in form.
1.0a 04/09/2011 - Small bug fix in includes/templates/custom/templates/tpl_index_default.php
1.0 04/02/2011 - First Release

Bugs

In version 1.0 there was a defect in ./includes/templates/custom/templates/tpl_index_default.php; this was fixed in version 1.0a.

FAQ

Q: What's the difference between the Better Together Centerbox and I Want Both, Buy Both Now and the Better Together Promotional Page with Add both to Cart?
A: They're all separate products. Buy Both Now works with the marketing text on the product info page; Add both to Cart works on the Promotional page, the Centerbox (and I Want Both) displays on the main page.

I charge a fee of $20.00 for the Better Together Centerbox with I Want Both. You may also donate through this link. The fee covers software only; installation is extra if you require help.

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