Sold New Products display Sold Out instead of price on index and products_new pages

Currently, in my admin, I have my stock set to leave product status ON when product sells out.

regardless of this setting...

Is there a way to get the product to display "Sold Out" instead of the price when it sells out? on the index and products_new page?

Changing the product price to $0 gets rid of the price, but "sold out" would be more clear to users.

You would have to change the display price function that if a product is sold out or products_quantity <= 0 that it should return, as the price, sold out or an image or something other than the price that is being built in the functions_prices for this display price function ...

So would have edit each page: index, product listing, all, new, search, featured, p info etc with some sort of > if products_quantity <= 0 then <img src=> php something } somethingcode?

Or is there a way to do it globally? ZC seems to know not to display a price when the price is zero, is there a way to hook into this? and replace the blank space with a sold out image?

functions_prices.php ?

In any case how would I get started? :book:

All of the prices are displayed with the display price function in the functions_prices.php using a single function for everywhere except the shopping_cart and checkout ...

Look in the function file for:

////
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {

Ajeh:

You would have to change the display price function that if a product is sold out or products_quantity <= 0 that it should return, as the price, sold out or an image or something other than the price that is being built in the functions_prices for this display price function ...

Found this section, what would the code be to replace the blank space with an image of "Sold Out"?

am I even close?

////
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {
    global $db, $currencies;

    $free_tag = "";
    $call_tag = "";
    
    // replace blank price space with sold out image on all pages
     if products_quantity <= 0 {
      
        return 'BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT';
      }
    

// 0 = normal shopping
// 1 = Login to shop
// 2 = Can browse but no prices
    // verify display of prices
      switch (true) {

You would need to check the products_quantity with the function:

  function zen_get_products_stock($products_id) {

It isn't available until you look it up ...

Then, whatever you return would change what the price displays as ...

Ajeh:

You would need to check the products_quantity with the function:

function zen_get_products_stock($products_id) {

> 
> It isn't available until you look it up ...
> 
> Then, whatever you return would change what the price displays as ...

Then this is correct?

```php
//// 
// Display Price Retail 
// Specials and Tax Included 
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) { 
    global $db, $currencies; 

    $free_tag = ""; 
    $call_tag = ""; 
     
    // replace blank price space with sold out image on all pages 
     
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) { 

if products_quantity <= 0 { 
       
        return 'BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT'; 
      } 
 } 
     

// 0 = normal shopping 
// 1 = Login to shop 
// 2 = Can browse but no prices 
    // verify display of prices 
      switch (true) {  

In a word ... no ... :cry:

Try something like:

// replace blank price space with sold out image on all pages 
     
  $products_quantity = zen_get_products_display_price($products_id);
if $products_quantity <= 0 {       
        $return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT);
        return $return_button
      } 

I have not tested this but this is the basic idea ...you may need to tweak this some ...

I tried the code and my site went away, whoops! I hate when that happens:Flush:

any obvious errors? :unsure: too many of these { thingys maybe?

////
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {
    global $db, $currencies;

    $free_tag = "";
    $call_tag = "";
//test
      
  $products_quantity = zen_get_products_display_price($products_id); 
if $products_quantity <= 0 {        
        $return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT); 
        return $return_button 
      } 
      
// 0 = normal shopping
// 1 = Login to shop
// 2 = Can browse but no prices
    // verify display of prices
      switch (true) {
        case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '1' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
        // customer must be logged in to browse
        return '';
        break;
        case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '2' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
        // customer may browse but no prices
        return TEXT_LOGIN_FOR_PRICE_PRICE;
        break;
        case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '3' and TEXT_LOGIN_FOR_PRICE_PRICE_SHOWROOM != ''):
        // customer may browse but no prices
        return TEXT_LOGIN_FOR_PRICE_PRICE_SHOWROOM;
        break;
        case ((CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '0' and CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '3') and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
        // customer must be logged in to browse
        return TEXT_AUTHORIZATION_PENDING_PRICE;
        break;
        case ((CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '0' and CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '3') and $_SESSION['customers_authorization'] > '0'):
        // customer must be logged in to browse
        return TEXT_AUTHORIZATION_PENDING_PRICE;
        break;
        default:
        // proceed normally
        break;
      }

// show case only

You if needs to be changed:

if $products_quantity <= 0 {        

To read:

if ($products_quantity <= 0) {        

I changed the code but my site went away again. maybe throw in a ! somewhere?

also I just popped your code in on line 154 under the call tag is the placement wrong or is my statement conflicting the above code?

////
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {
    global $db, $currencies;

    $free_tag = "";
    $call_tag = "";
    
//test
      
  $products_quantity = zen_get_products_display_price($products_id); 
if ($products_quantity <= 0) {        
        $return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT); 
        return $return_button 
      } 

// 0 = normal shopping
// 1 = Login to shop
// 2 = Can browse but no prices
    // verify display of prices

Missing semi-colon at the end of the line ...

        return $return_button[B];[/B]

Still no site with above code with added ; :yuck:

I moved the } down (see below) but that didn't work either.:sadwalk:

///
// Display Price Retail
// Specials and Tax Included
  function zen_get_products_display_price($products_id) {
    global $db, $currencies;

    $free_tag = "";
    $call_tag = "";
    
//test
      
  $products_quantity = zen_get_products_display_price($products_id); 
if ($products_quantity <= 0) {        
        $return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT); 
        return $return_button; 
       
      
// 0 = normal shopping
// 1 = Login to shop
// 2 = Can browse but no prices
    // verify display of prices
      switch (true) {
        case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '1' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
        // customer must be logged in to browse
        return '';
        break;
        case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '2' and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
        // customer may browse but no prices
        return TEXT_LOGIN_FOR_PRICE_PRICE;
        break;
        case (CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL == '3' and TEXT_LOGIN_FOR_PRICE_PRICE_SHOWROOM != ''):
        // customer may browse but no prices
        return TEXT_LOGIN_FOR_PRICE_PRICE_SHOWROOM;
        break;
        case ((CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '0' and CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '3') and $_SESSION['customer_id'] == ''):
        // customer must be logged in to browse
        return TEXT_AUTHORIZATION_PENDING_PRICE;
        break;
        case ((CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '0' and CUSTOMERS_APPROVAL_AUTHORIZATION != '3') and $_SESSION['customers_authorization'] > '0'):
        // customer must be logged in to browse
        return TEXT_AUTHORIZATION_PENDING_PRICE;
        break;
        default:
        // proceed normally
        break;
      }
      
          }

// show case only

Just use this code to display the SOLD OUT image instead of the Price ...

// return sold out vs price
  $products_quantity = zen_get_products_stock($products_id);
  if ($products_quantity <= 0) {
    $return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT);
    return $return_button;
  }

That one does the trick! :clap:everything looks good so far, I will do some more testing to see if there are any issues and report back if need be.

Meanwhile, I think I owe you a cup of coffee!

Thanks Linda!
:rolleyes:

You are most welcome ...

I gave you 1 typo and then I appeared to have befuddled you on the other things needed ... :eek:

It was easier to just sit down, clean it up, test it ... and make sure the price vanished everywhere when the products_quantity <= 0 ...

Thanks for the support! :smile:

Hi, I want to do the same thing only use the small image instead, I tried the code:

// return sold out vs price
$products_quantity = zen_get_products_stock($products_id);
if ($products_quantity <= 0) {
$return_button = zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT_SM, BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_ALT);
return $return_button;
}

but that just gave me the alt tag and no image.
(without the _SM the large image shows fine)

Thanks for your help :smile:

The constant for the small sold out is:
BUTTON_IMAGE_SOLD_OUT_SMALL

And its ALT tag constant is:
BUTTON_SOLD_OUT_SMALL_ALT

Thank you so much Linda,
that worked

:P Anita

Thanks for the update that the problem was just a typo ... :smile: