Disable drill down to single product

[rottiejoe]

Hi everybody,

can any one help me on this. It's an easy question but the answer may not be. I want to disable the feature for drilling down from catagories to the individual product i.e. when a custome clicks on catagories on the main page they are directed to the product list for that catagorie and cannot click to go deeper than this. From here they can select the number of items oer product and add selected items to their cart. This is for our wholesale customers only. The skeleton of the site is here. Also would need for any NEW for month product listings to direct them to that catagorie.

[gjh42]

Is the whole site for wholesale customers, or do you want different behavior for logged-in wholesale customers and all others?
If the latter, it should be possible but decidedly more complex coding required.

If the former, what you would want is to disable the "more info" and title/image links in product listings. This should be a relatively simple matter to do, but from my memory of a year ago, could take a while to find the right files to edit.

You would need to repeat at least some of this process for each type of listing you want to use (featured, new, all, specials & maybe search).

[rottiejoe]

Hi Glenn
The first option. We already have a Zen cart site for retail Customers here so the new site would be only for wholesale. I am new to Zen cart and for that matter PHP, CSS but I am a fairly quick study when needed!! If you can point me in the right direction as to what files need to be edited and in what way I would be very gratefull. I have an idea that it is just a case of disabling the links from sub catagories as you pointed out but on this I need a wee bit of help.


Thank you for the help so far and the vey quick reply

[rottiejoe]

Hi

I have figured out how I can use the zen cart catagories and sub-catagories to do what I need. My only gripe is that on the listing page I cannot click on an image to get a larger image without drilling down to that specific products page. Is there a way of setting this up in admin because I have searched everywhere in admin without, obviously, any success.

Thanks

[gjh42]

In tpl_product_info_display.php, there is code around the main image display that calls in the popup function. You could probably transplant that to product_listing.php, in the "image" case section. You will have to be sure you get enough code and not too much.

[rottiejoe]

Don't know what I did wrong here but it does nothing. Sorry but my PHP skills are not very good. This is the code from product_listing.php with the transposed code from tpl.product_info_display.php. What have I done wrong.

   case 'PRODUCT_LIST_IMAGE':
        $template->get_template_dir('/tpl_modules_additional_images.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_additional_images.php';
        $lc_align = 'center';
        if ($listing->fields['products_image'] == '' and PRODUCTS_IMAGE_NO_IMAGE_STATUS == 0) {
          $lc_text = '';
        } else {
          if (isset($_GET['manufacturers_id'])) {
            $lc_text = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($listing->fields['products_id']), 'products_id=' . $listing->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $listing->fields['products_image'], $listing->fields['products_name'], IMAGE_PRODUCT_LISTING_WIDTH, IMAGE_PRODUCT_LISTING_HEIGHT, 'class="listingProductImage"') . '</a>';
          } else {
            $lc_text = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($listing->fields['products_id']), ($_GET['cPath'] > 0 ? 'cPath=' . $_GET['cPath'] . '&' : '') . 'products_id=' . $listing->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $listing->fields['products_image'], $listing->fields['products_name'], IMAGE_PRODUCT_LISTING_WIDTH, IMAGE_PRODUCT_LISTING_HEIGHT, 'class="listingProductImage"') . '</a>';
          }
        }
        break;
      }
      $list_box_contents[$rows][$col] = array('align' => $lc_align,
                                              'params' => 'class="productListing-data"',
                                              'text'  => $lc_text); 

[dave_nextexit]

Is the whole site for wholesale customers, or do you want different behavior for logged-in wholesale customers and all others?
If the latter, it should be possible but decidedly more complex coding required.

If the former, what you would want is to disable the "more info" and title/image links in product listings. This should be a relatively simple matter to do, but from my memory of a year ago, could take a while to find the right files to edit.

You would need to repeat at least some of this process for each type of listing you want to use (featured, new, all, specials & maybe search).

Hi,

I want to do what he was talking about previously - not being able to drill down into the individual products' Product Info page. Basically I want to disable the product image link and title link so that people can't drill down any further than the Product Listing view. Any help would be greatly appreciate! Thanks!