Dynamic Price Updater

[mc12345678]

Hi all,

just trying a small modification. Actually the plugin is working great, i would like to modify it so that if an article is out of stock (quantity = 0) an image is displayed instead of the price. In the old version of my site i have modified the file \includes\templates\YOUR_TEMPLATES\templates\tpl_product_info_display.php adding around lines 83 (after the // base price start) the following:

//BOF No price if out of stock, show image instead
  //echo $one_time . ((zen_has_product_attributes_values((int)$_GET['products_id']) and $flag_show_product_info_starting_at == 1) ? TEXT_BASE_PRICE : '') . zen_get_products_display_price((int)$_GET['products_id']);
  if ($products_quantity > 0) {
  echo $one_time . ((zen_has_product_attributes_values((int)$_GET['products_id']) and $flag_show_product_info_starting_at == 1) ? TEXT_BASE_PRICE : '') . zen_get_products_display_price((int)$_GET['products_id']);
} else {
  echo "<img src=images/esaurito.gif>";
   }
//EOF No price if Out of stock, show images instead 

I've done the same with the new version of my site (which have installed last version of DPU) but after displying the OUT OF STOCK image for a few second, DPU replace it with the price...
Before messing with DPU code I prefere to ask if someone have a good hint on how to have it work.

Thanks

Zencart 1.55e
DPU last version

So, one of the future features desired for this is to allow it to consider the status of stock of an attribute or attribute combination. Considering that this is being used to support attribute selection, I would think that while you may not have such implemented, that you might have interest in such future capability. With that in mind, there are a few places I could see some code modification to support the possibility of attribute stock determination without requiring significant rework in the future, or a way to just have DPU not load/activate if the products_quantity within the products table is 0 or less (this part assuming that it is not desirable/possible for the store to "oversell" product).

Most of the modification I would see in the includes/classes/dynamic_price_updater.php file, possibly in the insertProduct function where some data would be collected based on the current selection(s), to test the quantity of product available in the store, and then in prepareOutput to consider that data collected and basically assign the "price" to your html for your image (suggest to build the image using the ZC built in functions rather than "hard coding", but whatever seems to work I guess). This way, when the "price" is replaced, it will update the image with whatever your "sold-out" image is.

If you just want to cut DPU off at the pass, then in the top of includes/modules/pages/product_info/jscript_dynamic_price_updater.php (or includes/modules/pages/YOUR_PRODUCT_TYPE/jscript_dynamic_price_updater.php) add an additional test for no quantity of the product and whatever further "allowance" to disable DPU on this product page and therefore, the image added to your template file will not be displayed.

Then, there is the thought that perhaps the price should be displayable AND an image to be provided... That can be accomplished in either of the above two ways or by modifying the insertion point of the image in the template file to be outside the class identifiers for where the price is to be displayed. But, it would seem that if that were the case or desired, then the original change would not have been made. Unfortunately such a modification (not displaying price) also leaves "everyone" in the dark about whether the site is competitive for recently out-of-stock items or as unmonitored/out-of-date for product that remain visible for an extended period of time.