Different layout behaviour - Shopping cart empty versus not

[split63]

For the most part I find myself disabling all the features of Zen-Cart to deliver a very simple basic page to the customer.

To that end I have turned off the "featured", "Monthly specials", "New Products" listings.

However, when I have an empty shopping cart, the shopping cart page displays all these listings. If I add an item to the cart, all these listings go away.

How can I eliminate these from an empty shopping cart too?

[usernamenone]

I am going to tell you how to remove the code and as soon as I post this you will get a post to turn it off in admin. I ho.wever remove code that I will never use

Open includes/templates/your template/templates/tpl_shopping_cart_default.php

Around line 193 remove this code.


/**
* display the Featured Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_featured_products.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_featured_products.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

<?php
if ($show_display_shopping_cart_empty->fields['configuration_key'] == 'SHOW_SHOPPING_CART_EMPTY_SPECIALS_PRODUCTS') { ?>
<?php
/**
* display the Special Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_specials_default.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_specials_default.php'); ?>
<?php } ?>

<?php
if ($show_display_shopping_cart_empty->fields['configuration_key'] == 'SHOW_SHOPPING_CART_EMPTY_NEW_PRODUCTS') { ?>
<?php
/**
* display the New Products Center Box
*/
?>
<?php require($template->get_template_dir('tpl_modules_whats_new.php',DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'templates'). '/tpl_modules_whats_new.php'); ?>

[stevesh]

And I'll be the guy who suggests that hacking the code should come after turning things on and off in admin:

Admin - Configuration - Stock

[davez]

Thank you all!

[ctopher]

Thank you for asking this question so I could search on it and find the answer.

That said, before coming to the forums here (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) I checked the FAQs and behold, an entry titled "I want to enable/disable the "New Products for [insert month]" or Featured/Special/Upcoming Products sections."

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=4

Since this FAQ specifically mentions "...(empty)Shopping Cart page, etc." I wonder if the maintainer could also mention that if you want to modify the empty shopping cart behavior, you have to go to Admin->Configuration->Stock.

This would make that FAQ entry complete.