Bypass Product Listing?

[PaulineNMU]

Hello, I searched for this and couldn't find anything on it, apologies if it's already been answered.

What I want to do is bypass product listing all together. So, for example, I click on a category, then pick a subcategory, and instead of getting a listing of all the products I just want it to go straight to the first product so I can scroll through with the next button. This would be similar as it would do if there was just one product in the category.

I know this is a weird way to do things, but it's not my call, it's the clients. -sigh-


So if anyone has any ideas, or could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

Thank you!

[Kim]

What is going to determine what the first product seen is?

As a consumer I would not stick around very long if I had to click through all of the products to find what I want. Might want to educate the client on usability ...

[PaulineNMU]

What is going to determine what the first product seen is?

As a consumer I would not stick around very long if I had to click through all of the products to find what I want. Might want to educate the client on usability ...

I'm aware of the poor navigation of this, but I'm not the one making the decisions. Believe me, I argued a lot about it.


Basically it would just go straight to the first product in the listing.

[DrByte]

Echoing Kim's sentiments ... I don't recommend it, but you could adapt the code as follows:

/includes/modules/pages/index/header_php.php
around line 54:

// if only one product in this category, go directly to the product page, instead of displaying a link to just one item:
// if filter_id exists the 1 product redirect is ignored
if (SKIP_SINGLE_PRODUCT_CATEGORIES=='True' and (!isset($_GET['filter_id']) and !isset($_GET['alpha_filter']))) {
  if ($listing->RecordCount() == 1) {
    zen_redirect(zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($listing->fields['products_id']), ($cPath ? 'cPath=' . $cPath . '&' : '') . 'products_id=' . $listing->fields['products_id']));
  }
}

change that as follows:

// if only one product in this category, go directly to the product page, instead of displaying a link to just one item:
// if filter_id exists the 1 product redirect is ignored
if (SKIP_SINGLE_PRODUCT_CATEGORIES=='True' and (!isset($_GET['filter_id']) and !isset($_GET['alpha_filter']))) {
//  if ($listing->RecordCount() == 1) {
    zen_redirect(zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($listing->fields['products_id']), ($cPath ? 'cPath=' . $cPath . '&' : '') . 'products_id=' . $listing->fields['products_id']));
//  }
}

[PaulineNMU]

That's great! Thank you!

Is there a way to make it so that it will still show the category page? All the products are going into subcategories, and now it's saying that there are no products to display on the straight category pages.

You can see here: ***edited***

If you try to click just the main Butterfly category, it's not letting me get to anything. I'm guessing maybe some kind of if/then, like.. If there are no products, then display the page, else display the first product?

Sorry, my knowledge of php is limited. This help is VERY appreciated!

[DrByte]

Use:

// if only one product in this category, go directly to the product page, instead of displaying a link to just one item:
// if filter_id exists the 1 product redirect is ignored
if (SKIP_SINGLE_PRODUCT_CATEGORIES=='True' and (!isset($_GET['filter_id']) and !isset($_GET['alpha_filter']))) {
  if ($listing->RecordCount() >= 1) {
    zen_redirect(zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($listing->fields['products_id']), ($cPath ? 'cPath=' . $cPath . '&' : '') . 'products_id=' . $listing->fields['products_id']));
  }
}