hideCategories

That's the problem with contribs... any contribs... that have to touch core files or tempate files. Just look at all the files that were incuded with the contrib, and use a tool like WinMerge to compare them to the ORIGINAL files. Then compare them to the css files you altered and try to pick out what happened. Its probably the template files in this contrib you have to look at, but not necessarily only those. Because Zen is a collaborative effort, they don't have consistent coding all the time so you may have to do different things in different places to achieve the same resuts.

Good luck!

- Steven

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Originally Posted by s_mack

That's the problem with contribs... any contribs... that have to touch core files or tempate files. Just look at all the files that were incuded with the contrib, and use a tool like WinMerge to compare them to the ORIGINAL files. Then compare them to the css files you altered and try to pick out what happened. Its probably the template files in this contrib you have to look at, but not necessarily only those. Because Zen is a collaborative effort, they don't have consistent coding all the time so you may have to do different things in different places to achieve the same resuts.

Good luck!

- Steven

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So true.

I did go through and figured out the problem. I had replaced the sidebox template that included the hideCat functionality. Now all is well. So changing the id's and classes really did not do much. Though I did not get rid of any id or class that was generated by ZC so that helped I think.

Thanks for the quick response.

Hi -

I'm having an issue with this. I've installed the files properly, as directed, and the SQL query runs fine. however, when I go to edit any category, I'm presented with this message:

1146 Table 'databasename.TABLE_HIDE_CATEGORIES' doesn't exist
in:
[select visibility_status FROM TABLE_HIDE_CATEGORIES WHERE categories_id = 4 LIMIT 1]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

Now, I've gone through phpMyAdmin and dropped the table, and hand-built the table myself to no avail. I dropped the table again and ran your query directly through phpMyAdmin. the table IS indeed there, but so is the error in the admin area.

I cannot find a reason why it won't recognize th table is there - I can see it, and it's just as it should be - yet it won't let me do anything.

Have any ideas for me?

...and for the record, I've been doing more searching on this issue, and I see it's been a problem before. However all stated solutions (adding the "TABLE_PRODUCTS..." stuff) have already been added to the latest release - and it's not working. It's really strange. So just so you know I'm not posting just ot post (and I haven't done searches) - I have, and even googled it as well. All possible solutions I've found have been tried - yet here I am...so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Is that the exact error?

it actually says "databasename.TABLE_HIDE [etc etc]"?

Or you replaced your database name with "databasename"?

I replaced my actual database name with the word "databasename".

First of all thank you so much for this module! I installed it and it worked great! I am now in the process of creating a product for a category hidden when I chanced upon a google search and found that the category I hid was listed on google?

I suppose I should put something in the robot.txt to prevent the spider from collecting data on the category?

Yeah. There was nothing in the module to hide it from spiders. Probably getting it from your sitemap or something... or just nabbed it before you hid it? Obviously the pages are still valid HTML pages so Google won't know you intended to hide it.

Is there a way to prevent the spider from picking up the data? e.g specifying it in robot.txt...(though not sure how to do this)

Yes, I would think that would work. Can't really help you with that thought. Probably best to do some searching on Google for something like "robots.txt dynamic pages" or something like that.