Sunday, April 24, 2011

Latest News module for the opencart




Click to download the Latest News Module of opencart
Unzip the files and

Copy and paste the files in their respective folders.
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FOR BACK END
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Paste the following

<li><a href="<?php echo  HTTPS_SERVER . 'index.php?route=catalog/news&token=' . $this->session->data['token']; ?>">Latest News</a></li>

in the admin\view\template\common\header.tpl

below these lines

       <li><a href="<?php echo $product; ?>"><?php echo $text_product; ?></a></li>
        <li><a href="<?php echo $manufacturer; ?>"><?php echo $text_manufacturer; ?></a></li>
        <li><a href="<?php echo $download; ?>"><?php echo $text_download; ?></a></li>
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Now open in the browser login in the admin

Give permission to the user (You can set the permission by admin only) for catalog/news

admin>> System>> Users>> User Groups>> Then select the user and click edit and check the catalog/news  on both the access permission and the modify permission


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After that click on the Catalog>> Latest News
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FOR FRONT END SETTINGS
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Place "Latest News" by linking with the link
        "index.php?route=information/news"
Now clicking on the link shows the latest news in the desc order
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2 comments:

  1. I have to maintain in the code i will do it soon.

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  2. I tried fixing this and now I get this error:

    Error: Table 'giftex_opencart.giftexnews' doesn't exist
    Error No: 1146
    SELECT * FROM giftexnews order by news_id desc

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