Different template for restricted products?

[iaing]

I'm setting up my first Zencart for a catering suppliers. The general product type works fine for everything they sell.
They sell knives which are for over 18s only. What I want to do is every time the store owner adds a knife to the catalogue it automatically displays with an age restriction warning.

I figured the best way to do this was with a duplicate product type of Product General - the only change being it uses a different template.

However, I've tried this and not being a programmer I'm struggling.

2 questions:
Is there a simpler solution? I tried just adding an attribute but can't get much control over it's display with CSS.

I'm, using Zencart 1.5 - if I go back and try again with creating a new product type - are instructions for doing this affected by v1.5 (instructions I've seen posted seem to be older in date).

any help appreciated greatly!

[iaing]

I'm setting up my first ZenCart for a catering supplier. General Product type works fine for what they sell. Hoever they sell knives which need a 'restricted age' warning, which I'd like to be added automatically.

I figured a new product type - identical to product general, except using a different template - would be the best way to achieve this.

However, not being a programmer I'm struggling with achieving this.

2 questions:
1 - Is there a simpler solution? I tried adding an attribute but can't get much control over it's display with CSS.
2 - If I go back and try again with a new product type are there any differences in doing this in zencart 1.5 - the posts explaining this seem to be older in date?

Any help greatly appreciated
Iain

[lat9]

What type of attribute did you add? Where did you want to display it but couldn't with CSS?

There's a plugin named "Product Extra Fields" that adds an additional text (and other) fields to each product. You could define the first knife product with the extra text-field containing the warning that you need and then create a copy of that knife product for each new knife so that you don't have to type that information in for each new knife. The benefit is that the extra text can contain HTML code, so that you could specify the text as <div id="knives">Your warning here</div> and then style the #knives information within your stylesheet.

[iaing]

Yes I tried a text field, but it looked like any css I added would affect ALL attributes - what you suggest sounds good, will give that a try - Thank You!

[iaing]

Before trying the Product Extra Field plugin I just tried writing the html into a text attribute - it allows it, but the html is added after the heading:

<div class="wrapperAttribsOptions">
<h4 class="optionName back">Restricted</h4>
<div class="back">
<div id="age">You must be over 18 to purchase a knife.</div><br />
</div>

So I could style and position the message, but the Attribute heading (in this case 'Restricted') I cannot control -

Does anyone know if it would be different in the Product Extra Field version?

[lat9]

Yes I tried a text field, but it looked like any css I added would affect ALL attributes - what you suggest sounds good, will give that a try - Thank You!

If all of the knives are in the same product category, you can use Zen Cart's CSS loading (see /includes/templates/template_default/css/CSS_read_me.txt) to style the attribute information.

For example, if the knives are all in category 23 (e.g. http://www.yourstore.com/index.php?m...&product_id=77), then you can create the file /includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/css/c_23.css that contains styling only for products within that category number.

[iaing]

love it - thanks loads, that should sort it more safely - I discovered that for some reason the other attributes used on the site - size and colour - produce attribute headings that are H3, while my Restricted attribute produced an H4 so I was testing #productAttributes h4 for styling it, but your solution sounds more future proof.

Thank you so much for keeping trying for me!