Rotating Product of the Month

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   Howdy
Anybody got any ideas how to rotate 'Product of the Month'. I think a cool feature would be if the order '0' (ie the Main Featured product) has a few products with the same number('0'), it should scroll though these as the product of the Month, every time a customer looks at the main page.
Does that make sense.. 
Thanks
Rob

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RobertZ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 21-January-2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote RobertZ Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Rotating Product of the Month Posted: 01-January-2008 at 7:15pm
	Howdy Anybody got any ideas how to rotate 'Product of the Month'. I think a cool feature would be if the order '0' (ie the Main Featured product) has a few products with the same number('0'), it should scroll though these as the product of the Month, every time a customer looks at the main page. Does that make sense.. Thanks Rob

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02-January-2008 at 1:46pm
	Well, the following suggestioin diverges from the standard approach to managing the ProductCart home page items, but it's an idea: How about adding a flag to the product table that indicates the product should be included in a rotation of images that appear on the home page. Then replace the code that displays the "Product of the Month" with a reference to a script that randomly selects a product that has been flagged as being part of the above-referenced rotation. This is a high-level concept. It's going to require a few hours of work to accomplish. And as I say, it's not exactly integrated with the standard PC approach, but it could work. On edit - I just realized what you were proposing concerning "order 0". That could be done, and would avoid adding the flag. It's still a bit of effort, but your approach could be done as well. Edited by Greg Dinger - 02-January-2008 at 2:19pm