Hide What's New and Best Sellers Sideboxes

[Ajeh]

Using your templates and overrides, customize the best_sellers.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off best sellers on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_best_sellers= false;
}  
// eof: turn off best sellers on home page

  if ($show_best_sellers == true) {

Customize the whats_new.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off whats_new on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_whats_new= false;
} else {
    $show_whats_new= true;
}
// eof: turn off whats_new on home page

// display limits

and then lower in the code:

  if ($show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

[AirsoftOutfitter]

Using your templates and overrides, customize the best_sellers.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off best sellers on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_best_sellers= false;
}  
// eof: turn off best sellers on home page

  if ($show_best_sellers == true) {

Customize the whats_new.php sidebox with the code in red:

// bof: turn off whats_new on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) { 
    $show_whats_new= false;
} else {
    $show_whats_new= true;
}
// eof: turn off whats_new on home page

// display limits

and then lower in the code:

  if ($show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

I did as you said, but they are still on? The directory I altered the files in was:

mysite.com/mytemplate/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

is this correct?

If I add the code you metioned further down it shuts everything off on all the pages...$show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

[Ajeh]

If you just do the Best Sellers sidebox ... does that work correctly?

[AirsoftOutfitter]

If you just do the Best Sellers sidebox ... does that work correctly?

Best Sellers worked fine, just the "what's new" doesn't go off. I tried removing the else {
$show_whats_new= true;

code as that is the only difference in the "best seller" and "what's new" but nada...

[AirsoftOutfitter]

I did as you said, but the "whats_new" is still on? The directory I altered the files in was:

mysite.com/mytemplate/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

is this correct?

If I add the code you mentioned further down in the "whats_new" file it shuts everything off on all the pages...$show_whats_new && $random_whats_new_sidebox_product->RecordCount() > 0 ) {

[Ajeh]

I don't know where your code is but this:
mysite.com/mytemplate/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

is not a valid path ...

you see the:
/your_secret_admin
/download
/images
/includes

Now go to:
/includes/modules/sideboxes

copy the file:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/whats_new.php

to your templates and overrides directory for modules in:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/your_template_dir/whats_new.php

and then add the customizations ...

follow the same method for the best_sellers.php ...

[AirsoftOutfitter]

I don't know where your code is but this:
mysite.com/mytemplate/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

is not a valid path ...

you see the:
/your_secret_admin
/download
/images
/includes

Now go to:
/includes/modules/sideboxes

copy the file:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/whats_new.php

to your templates and overrides directory for modules in:
/includes/modules/sideboxes/your_template_dir/whats_new.php

and then add the customizations ...

follow the same method for the best_sellers.php ...

I do have the "What's New" and "Best Sellers" sideboxes in my template override folder located here:

mysite.com/includes/modules/sideboxes/mytemplate/

The alterations to "Best Sellers" works fine, but the "What's New" is no good...

[Ajeh]

Do you see errors or do you just see the What's New on the Home Page?

[AirsoftOutfitter]

Do you see errors or do you just see the What's New on the Home Page?

Just the what's new on the home page

[dysfunctional]

Using your templates and overrides, customize the best_sellers.php sidebox with the code in red:
[CODE]
// bof: turn off best sellers on home page
if ($this_is_home_page) {
$show_best_sellers= false;
}
// eof: turn off best sellers on home page

if ($show_best_sellers == true) {

Hi Ajeh, thanks for your code suggestion, I also wanted to hide the bestsellers sidebox on my home page and the solution above worked fine. However, I just realized that I would prefer to have it shown only during product listing. So the customer easily can see the most sold products in the current category the customer is vewing. So I want to hide the bestsellers sidebox on for example "index.php?main_page=logoff", "index.php?main_page=reviews", "index.php?main_page=specials" etc... would love to see a code example where I can add the pages where I don't want the sidebox to show. Could use this for other sideboxes as well.

Thanks!

Best regards

Peter