Disable Product Type Sideboxes

[rbarbour]

I have created a new Product Type - The extra fields appear in drop down select sideboxes on my site.

I want to disable those sideboxes except when on pages of that product type.

Example - this new product type will have its own category, so I only want those sideboxes to appear in that category.

I have tried several if statements even
// test if box should display
if ($this_is_home_page) {
$show_custom_sidebox = false;
} else {
$show_custom_sidebox = true;
}

nothing seems to be working

[gjh42]

// test if box should display
if (isset($cPath) and $cPath == 'xx') {
$show_custom_sidebox = true;
} else {
$show_custom_sidebox = false;
} 

where xx is the category id for your product type's category.
If it has subcats the test needs to be a little more sophisticated.

[rbarbour]

no sub-categories & doesn't work

[gjh42]

The question becomes, what file are you using the test in? Post the beginning of the file with the test and surroundings. What is the cPath for the product type category?

[rbarbour]

I copied all the music/music_genre files to create new product type.

So I copied music_genres.php located here /includes/modules/sideboxes

Put the new sidebox here /includes/modules/sideboxes/CUSTOM_TEMPLATE

Beginning of file:

<?php
/**
* tv_display_size sidebox - displays list of available tv_display_size to filter on
*
* @package templateSystem
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: tv_display_size.php 2834 2006-01-11 22:16:37Z birdbrain $
*/

Category Id would be 976 with no subcategories

[gjh42]

Post the beginning of the file with the test and surroundings.
It's good to know what & where the file is, but debugging requires seeing the code that is not working.

[rbarbour]

<?php
/**
 * tv_display_size sidebox - displays list of available music genres to filter on
 *
 * @package templateSystem
 * @copyright Copyright 2003-2005 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: tv_display_size.php 2834 2006-01-11 22:16:37Z birdbrain $
 */

  $tv_display_size_query = "select tv_display_size_id, tv_display_size_name
                          from " . TABLE_TV_DISPLAY_SIZE . "
                          order by tv_display_size_name";

  $tv_display_size = $db->Execute($tv_display_size_query);

  if ($tv_display_size->RecordCount()>0) {
    $number_of_rows = $tv_display_size->RecordCount()+1;

// Display a list
    $tv_display_size_array = array();
    if (!isset($_GET['tv_display_size_id']) || $_GET['tv_display_size_id'] == '' ) {
      $tv_display_size_array[] = array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_ALL);
    } else {
      $tv_display_size_array[] = array('id' => '', 'text' => PULL_DOWN_TV_DISPLAY_SIZE);
    }

    while (!$tv_display_size->EOF) {
      $tv_display_size_name = ((strlen($tv_display_size->fields['tv_display_size_name']) > MAX_DISPLAY_TV_DISPLAY_SIZE_NAME_LEN) ? substr($tv_display_size->fields['tv_display_size_name'], 0, MAX_DISPLAY_TV_DISPLAY_SIZE_NAME_LEN) . '..' : $tv_display_size->fields['tv_display_size_name']);
      $tv_display_size_array[] = array('id' => $tv_display_size->fields['tv_display_size_id'],
                                       'text' => $tv_display_size_name);

      $tv_display_size->MoveNext();
    }
      require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_tv_display_size_select.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'sideboxes'). '/tpl_tv_display_size_select.php');

    $title = '<label>' . BOX_HEADING_TV_DISPLAY_SIZE . '</label>';
    $title_link = false;
    require($template->get_template_dir($column_box_default, DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'common') . '/' . $column_box_default);
  }
?>

[gjh42]

There is no product page display test code in the file you posted, so I can't tell what you did wrong.
However, there is a display test in place to only execute the file if there is something to display, and we can piggyback the product page test on that.
Add
and (isset($cPath) and $cPath == 'xx')
to this line

  if ($tv_display_size->RecordCount()>0) { 

to get

  if ($tv_display_size->RecordCount()>0 and (isset($cPath) and $cPath == 'xx')) { 

[rbarbour]

my entire site disappeared, nothing but the header left

[gjh42]

Post that line as it now exists in your file with the added test. Did you replace 'xx' with '976'?