Modifying the URL string

[rubberd]

I am new to Zen but am a PHP expert and am wondering about using "Manufacturers" to represent Schools so I can preselect just a particular schools products.

I am thinking that to do this, I will need to pass a $var around so that if a user clicks a category (EG: Shirts) he only gets shirts from School A or whatever "manufacturer" he choose (or came into the store from).

If that is a good way to do it, how/where is the code to be found, and if there is a better idea, what might that be?

Thanks

[kobra]

Can use manufacture for schools but it will need selecting and will not be automatic can see others if they select another school/manufacture

The rest is built into Zen Cart

[rubberd]

Yes, that's fine if they see the other schools. My idea is to pass manufacturer_id in the url to get Zen preset.

My issue is that, right now, if I choose manufac 1 I get a list, but if I click on a different category, I get all manufacturers stuff.

What I want is to be able to edit these urls to ALWAYS use manfacturer_id (and I may edit the queries if needed) so that no matter what, once you select a manufacturer is will NOT allow anything else to display unless a different one is selected.

Can use manufacture for schools but it will need selecting and will not be automatic can see others if they select another school/manufacture

The rest is built into Zen Cart

[kobra]

once you select a manufacturer is will NOT allow anything else to display unless a different one is selected.

On the surface, will take a good bit of php hacking the code - Use the override system where ever possible to maintain your edits intact if and when an upgrade is applied.

[rubberd]

I don't know where/what that is. Admin area??

PS

don't want you to do my work for me, just point me please

Thanks for you help.

On the surface, will take a good bit of php hacking the code - Use the override system where ever possible to maintain your edits intact if and when an upgrade is applied.

[kobra]

This is gonna be hacking the code in several files that deal with how php makes these pages and probably adding some "if" or "switch case" logic to restrict to a manufacturer/school