hideCategories

[NSABaits]

Already tried that route Steve.

PHP & MySQL are the same on both servers

[digidiva-kathy]

Could this overall be related to the PHP version? It seems I'm not the only one with this problem recently and I've installed this on other sites and had it work fine...and I didn't do anything different this time. Your response didn't really help me as I've looked over everything more than once and there's nothing different about the two installations I had problems with than any others I've done before...except maybe the PHP version.

[NSABaits]

OK it looks like a MOD conflict on my install. The strange thing is that I had the same MODs on the old server and they worked fine. I again removed the hide categories thread and re-installed and it worked fine (last time I removed it I must have missed one or more files ) I re-installed the hide categories MOD and it worked like before with no issues with the MOD. However I also use the categories dressing MOD which then ceased to work.

Categories Dressing mod:
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=609

I re-installed the categories dressing MOD and the hide categories MOD then stopped working again. Strange since they both worked happily on my old server and using the same version of ZC.

Any ideas Steve?

[s_mack]

Don't use both, or use Winmerge to figure out what the two have in common and figure out a way to merge the code.

[origel]

Ok, I went through all the posts, and nothing helped.


I'm using Zen Cart v1.3.8a, clean install, i actually installed it twice. Ran through the hideCategories Installation successfully, installed the sql with no errors, I see the radio buttons with the options to hide the categories and everything...

But here's where i'm confused, The categories that I have listed as hidden, still show up under the categories listing regardless if they are hidden from main menus, or hidden (direct link only), What did i do wrong if anything, is anyone else experiencing this, as far as what I read, everything works well right off the bat...I don't knwo what I did, this is not my first time installing scripts or using sql, so i'm LOST...

I"m sorry if anyone could assist....i'm going to reinstall zencart again, and create a new sql table just for this, hopefully it will work...

Thank you guys............

[Decostyle]

As I recall, this only hides it from the main menu but it still shows up on product listing. Thats the reason why I didnt use this module afterall.

Ok, I went through all the posts, and nothing helped.


I'm using Zen Cart v1.3.8a, clean install, i actually installed it twice. Ran through the hideCategories Installation successfully, installed the sql with no errors, I see the radio buttons with the options to hide the categories and everything...

But here's where i'm confused, The categories that I have listed as hidden, still show up under the categories listing regardless if they are hidden from main menus, or hidden (direct link only), What did i do wrong if anything, is anyone else experiencing this, as far as what I read, everything works well right off the bat...I don't knwo what I did, this is not my first time installing scripts or using sql, so i'm LOST...

I"m sorry if anyone could assist....i'm going to reinstall zencart again, and create a new sql table just for this, hopefully it will work...

Thank you guys............

[s_mack]

It hides categories, not products. If you want to hide products its easy... don't add them to your store :)

Origel - read the readme. It hides categories from the modules it is works with. If you're using a module that we didn't use when we set it up then you have to modify that module. The reason this module will NEVER be a right-for-everyone thing is the way Zen handles its product/category calls. It isn't centralized so every module that makes the call has to be modified instead of just making one change to the central call (which doesn't exist).

There would be loads of benefits and possibilities if they had done it more centralzied... but ce la vie.

Steven

[Wizzard308]

I used this mod and had some problems so I went back and replaced the over written files with my original files now its killed my categories section. I try to log into the categories and it says

Error 500 - Internal server error

An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.

I removed all the files this mod installed, deleted the table on the DB and it still screwed it up

[s_mack]

Clearly you didn't then :)

PHP isn't some magic virus. You put something in, then you take it back out and you're exactly where you were. So either you had that problem before you installed the mod, or you introduced it after (most likely) or you haven't fully removed it.

Its a learning process. Keep at it. Unmodded Zen is pretty simple... once you start modding you see how complex it can be. Once you start to understand... it is satisfying. Before then, it is frustrating.

Have fun.

(consider starting from scratch with a fresh install and CAREFULLY and SLOWLY make changes, fully testing step by step along the way)

- Steven

[gabstero]

Lovely Mod!

Thanks Steven!

One minor thing. The hidden category shows up on the top horizontal category bar. I really don't care much for that bar - how can I disable it?

Thanks!

Gabstero