Display text when sub category is off

[Muzz]

Hi There,

I have a category.

Lets say A

Inside the A there are products.

I have disabled the products. (The category is still ON)

The text displayed when you select A : There are no products to list in this category.

My question is.. I wish to display my own text here.

Can I enable the text that is entered in my Categories 'EDIT' section?

Categories > A (edit button)

The text displays fine when products are enabled but disappear when products are disabled.

Hope that's clear enough.

Thanks

[rmessick]

You can edit this file: includes/languages/english/index.php

Find the following code:
define('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS', 'There are no products to list in this category.');

And replace it with:

define('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS', 'Whatever you want.');

IMPORTANT NOTE - That will change the "no product" text for ALL categories.

As far as only changing it for that one category, this one may not work, but it's a guess for you and maybe a starting point - just make sure you backup the file first.

Open up includes/modules/product_listing.php

Find this line: 'text' => TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS);

Replace it with:

$myrandomvariable = $listing->fields['master_categories_id'];

if($myrandomvariable == ID) {
'text' => "Whatever you want");
}
else
'text' => TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS);

ID should be the ID# of your Category A, which you can find in the backend of Zen Cart (the admin area). Whatever you want is self explanatory and you can name $myrandomvariable whatever you want.

Let me know how it goes! Good luck...

[gjh42]

You can't put multiple lines of PHP inside an array statement like that. I would move the testing to above the array line, and insert its outcome into the array.

$cat_noprod_text = TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS;
if(defined('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS' . $listing->fields['master_categories_id']) {
  $cat_noprod_text = constant('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS' . $listing->fields['master_categories_id']);
}

//or the more compact version

  $cat_noprod_text = (defined('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS_' . $listing->fields['master_categories_id'])? constant('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS_' . $listing->fields['master_categories_id']): TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS;

//and the insertion

                                              'text' => $cat_noprod_text); 

} else {
  $cat_noprod_text = (defined('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS_' . $listing->fields['master_categories_id'])? constant('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS_' . $listing->fields['master_categories_id']): TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS;

  $list_box_contents = array();

  $list_box_contents[0] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-odd"');
  $list_box_contents[0][] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-data"',
                                              'text' => $cat_noprod_text); 

Make a new file /includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/no_products_defines.php

<?php
//text for different categories when no products

define('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS_23', 'Category 23 is out of products right now.'); 
define('TEXT_NO_PRODUCTS_27', 'Category 27 is fresh out of products - we\'ll have more soon.');

[Muzz]

Sorry for extremely belated reply.

Been Overseas.

I will give your suggestions a try and respond back.

Thanks again.

[Paul69]

Hi all! Do any of you know a way to set ZC to NOT display any products or categories that are disables or do not exist and throw a 404 error? I have search engines indexing pages as if they are still good when categories and products are in fact gone.

[gjh42]

It's not a matter of a Zen Cart setting; if a page that is searched for does not currently exist, you will get a "page not found" error. ZC has a standard page for that so you don't see a generic browser error page. You could use 301 redirects for any URLs that you want to go to a page specifically for deleted products, or if there is a new similar product, send the visitor to that URL.

[Paul69]

I have hundreds of them so what would be the best way. I'm still not sure why an invalid url can be entered and return a result but I guess it doesn't matter. So I need to make a redirect for a few hundred urls some how. Any idea how t do that? What happens with the search engines indexing pages that are deleted they continue to index them? I searched the generic not found text text from zen cart and got bunches of hits from online stores which is basically useless content and in my case may cause the site to use that as key words. So if a category or product is deleted or disabled it is still a valid url. That doesn't sound right. There has got to be a way to do it some how I'm sure. Would it be worse to show a page not found error? Wouldn't the search engines get the hint? I'm not sure what is best in this case. Should I just leave it?

[Paul69]

Ok it appears I did not know that a 404 response was returned so no harm done. Shoot.... I found info in this thread in case anyone is following...

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=167335