Sold New Products display Sold Out instead of price on index and products_new pages

[dharma]

Currently, in my admin, I have my stock set to leave product status ON when product sells out.

regardless of this setting...

Is there a way to get the product to display "Sold Out" instead of the price when it sells out? on the index and products_new page?

Changing the product price to $0 gets rid of the price, but "sold out" would be more clear to users.

[Ajeh]

You would have to change the display price function that if a product is sold out or products_quantity <= 0 that it should return, as the price, sold out or an image or something other than the price that is being built in the functions_prices for this display price function ...

[dharma]

So would have edit each page: index, product listing, all, new, search, featured, p info etc with some sort of

if products_quantity <= 0 then <img src=> php something } something

code?

Or is there a way to do it globally? ZC seems to know not to display a price when the price is zero, is there a way to hook into this? and replace the blank space with a sold out image?

functions_prices.php ?

In any case how would I get started?

[Ajeh]

All of the prices are displayed with the display price function in the functions_prices.php using a single function for everywhere except the shopping_cart and checkout ...

Look in the function file for:

////
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {

[dharma]

You would have to change the display price function that if a product is sold out or products_quantity <= 0 that it should return, as the price, sold out or an image or something other than the price that is being built in the functions_prices for this display price function ...

Found this section, what would the code be to replace the blank space with an image of "Sold Out"?

am I even close?

////
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {
    global $db, $currencies;

    $free_tag = "";
    $call_tag = "";
    
    // replace blank price space with sold out image on all pages
     if products_quantity <= 0 {
      
        return 'BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT';
      }
    

// 0 = normal shopping
// 1 = Login to shop
// 2 = Can browse but no prices
    // verify display of prices
      switch (true) { 

[Ajeh]

You would need to check the products_quantity with the function:

  function zen_get_products_stock($products_id) {

It isn't available until you look it up ...

Then, whatever you return would change what the price displays as ...

[dharma]

You would need to check the products_quantity with the function:

  function zen_get_products_stock($products_id) {

It isn't available until you look it up ...

Then, whatever you return would change what the price displays as ...

Then this is correct?

//// 
// Display Price Retail 
// Specials and Tax Included 
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) { 
    global $db, $currencies; 

    $free_tag = ""; 
    $call_tag = ""; 
     
    // replace blank price space with sold out image on all pages 
     
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) { 

if products_quantity <= 0 { 
       
        return 'BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT'; 
      } 
 } 
     

// 0 = normal shopping 
// 1 = Login to shop 
// 2 = Can browse but no prices 
    // verify display of prices 
      switch (true) { 

[Ajeh]

In a word ... no ...

Try something like:

// replace blank price space with sold out image on all pages 
     
  $products_quantity = zen_get_products_display_price($products_id);
if $products_quantity <= 0 {       
        $return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT);
        return $return_button
      } 

I have not tested this but this is the basic idea ...you may need to tweak this some ...