hideCategories

[DivaVocals]

At last I got the readme updated, and will be submitting this as soon as I click "Submit Reply". I will post an update when the new version is available in the Zen Cart downloads. Changes as follows:

2.00 - 03/09/2011

• updated files to reflect changes in Zen release 1.3.9h.
• Incorporated the following posted modifications in to the codebase (some of these posted solutions were modified slightly so they worked properly and worked with the latest version of Zen Cart 1.3.9 - most notably the posted solution for hiding categories in the category tabs):
  
  • Add Hidden Categories code to What's New sidebox
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=256
  • Add Hidden Categories code to Site Map & Customers Who Bought center box
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...2&postcount=94
  • Add Hidden Categories code to Categories Tab
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=195
  • Included a modified includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_document_product_info_display.php template specifically for hidden products. This template removes the top and bottom "Next" and "Previous" navigation buttons as well as the catgory link/image without compromising regular products. Requires using "document-product" product type to create your hidden categories.
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...1&postcount=96
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=258
• Corrected files which caused issues in MySQL 5
  
  • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=237
  • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=238

[DivaVocals]

hideCategories v2.0 is now available in the downloads..

At last I got the readme updated, and will be submitting this as soon as I click "Submit Reply". I will post an update when the new version is available in the Zen Cart downloads. Changes as follows:

2.00 - 03/09/2011

• updated files to reflect changes in Zen release 1.3.9h.
• Incorporated the following posted modifications in to the codebase (some of these posted solutions were modified slightly so they worked properly and worked with the latest version of Zen Cart 1.3.9 - most notably the posted solution for hiding categories in the category tabs):
  
  • Add Hidden Categories code to What's New sidebox
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=256
    
    
  • Add Hidden Categories code to Site Map & Customers Who Bought center box
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...2&postcount=94
    
    
  • Add Hidden Categories code to Categories Tab
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=195
    
    
  • Included a modified includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_document_product_info_display.php template specifically for hidden products. This template removes the top and bottom "Next" and "Previous" navigation buttons as well as the catgory link/image without compromising regular products. Requires using "document-product" product type to create your hidden categories.
    
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...1&postcount=96
    • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=258
    
    
  
  
• Corrected files which caused issues in MySQL 5
  
  • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=237
  • http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=238
  
  

[Berserker]

Hello,

The following files are not stated in the Read Me Files tab. Are they supposed to be included with this mod and uploaded?

includes/classes/site_map.php
includes/classes/db/mysql/define_queries.php

Regards

[Berserker]

Forgot to add, my categories tabs disappeared completely. Havent installed any modules with conflicting files.

[DivaVocals]

Hello,

The following files are not stated in the Read Me Files tab. Are they supposed to be included with this mod and uploaded?

includes/classes/site_map.php
includes/classes/db/mysql/define_queries.php

Regards

Yes.. left off the readme inadvertently

Forgot to add, my categories tabs disappeared completely. Havent installed any modules with conflicting files.

From the hideCategories readme:

FOR EXISTING STORES: You will need to open ALL your EXISTING categories and re-save them in order to apply the hideCategories changes. Otherwise some places where categories should be hidden will not work correctly, and some places where categories should NOT be hidden may not display correctly.

[DivaVocals]

Minor updates.. Here's the changelog:

2.0.1 - 03/19/2011

• Update the readme file list (2 files were inadvertently left out)
• Minor changes to language files (for better clarity)
• Updated folder icons (again for better clarity - wanted slightly more OBVIOUS icons -this change was made based on feedback I've received from my clients)
• Added hidden folder icons to category page legend

[RicM]

I'm wondering if your hidden categories will help solve the management of prices?

I have downloadable products that are currently priced solely by attribute (priced by size).

I'd like to create four bands of price attributes (cheap --> expensive) and categories seem to be the best way of achieving this because I can copy the price of 1 product (I can create a reference product that is used soley for this purpose; in fact 4 reference products, one in each category) to all other products in that category.

I don't particualarly want the customer to be aware of the category only that some products are more expensive than others, so hiding the category (but not the product) seems a good idea. Currently all products reside within 1 category "stock photos" - not a problem at the moment because stock photos are all that is sold and all are downloadable. If I start supplying framed photos, for example, they would reside in a completely new category where price banding would not apply.

Any thoughts / downfalls about using hidden categories for price banding?

Thanks,
Ric

[s_mack]

I don't think this is what you're looking for. It certainly wasn't designed with that in mind anyway. I think you're going to need to customize it so much, that you may as well not use it and just customize the core. I'm surprised there's no other mod out there that does what you want - group by pricing is common on many ecomm sites. Anyway, I don't think HideCategories is really going to help you for that purpose.

[RicM]

Hi and thank you for your reply.

Yes, I find it odd that price banding by some parameter or other isn't more available in Zen Cart.

Another solution is to upload a batch of products to a temporary category, apply the prices to that category and then transfer those products to their final category.

Thanks though for having a think about this problem!

Regards,
Ric

[jt1020]

Using a clean version of Zen 1.3.9h and just installed this mod and everything seems to be working, except the products still appear when using the search function.
I am using the hide direct link and it is working for everything but the search function.
I searched the forum and reviewed the install, but can't figure it out. Did I miss something?