Displaying manufacturer logos in cats and product pages

[bigbangtech]

It would be nice to display a small logo for each item's manufacturer in two places:

1) Near "Other products by..." on the product page

2) In category pages in list mode in the manufacturer column.

Anyone have any experience with this mod/code samples?

[jmestep]

I've done it by making a custom field and putting the link to the logo in that field. On another site, I have code in a custom conlib that takes the manufacturer name and has a switch statement that determines what logo to show. The easy part about that option is that you don't need to create/manage a custom field, but you do have to change code in the conlib if you add a new manufacturer. It might be a little slower perfomance-wise also.

[bigbangtech]

I figured out how to display a picture in the CategoryList page:

Code: Select all

itemTemplate1.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl("<td><a href=\"Search.aspx?m=" + product.Manufacturer.ManufacturerId + "\">" + product.Manufacturer.Name + "<br><img src=\"/Assets/mfrs/" + product.Manufacturer.Name + ".jpg\" border=\"0\"/></a></td>"));

Now, I would like to output a manufacturer picture in the AdvancedSearchPage.

I see the following code

Code: Select all

<asp:Label ID="Manufacturer" runat="server" Text='<%#GetManufacturerLink((int)Eval("ManufacturerId"))%>'></asp:Label>

How can I modify it to output a picture the way I did in the first snippet?

[jmestep]

You could do it from the code behind similar to the way the name is called now, replacing an image for the name.

Code: Select all

   protected string GetMSRP(object obj)
    {
        Product prod = obj as Product;
        if (prod != null && !prod.UseVariablePrice)
        {
            LSDecimal msrpWithVAT = TaxHelper.GetShopPrice(prod.MSRP, prod.TaxCodeId);
            if (msrpWithVAT > 0) return msrpWithVAT.ToString("ulc");
        }
        return string.Empty;
    }

You can adapt this snippet from a category page

Code: Select all

              //OUTPUT LINKED THUMNAIL
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(product.ThumbnailUrl))
                {
                    string thumbnail = string.Format("<a href=\"{0}\"><img src=\"{1}\" alt=\"{2}\" border=\"0\" class=\"Thumbnail\" /></a><br />", productUrl, ResolveUrl(product.ThumbnailUrl), product.ThumbnailAltText);
                   /////replace this itemTemplate1.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(thumbnail));
                }

Then return the image url the way the code now returns the name