Limit Products in Store

Hi

I am looking at limiting the number of products a store owner can have in his store.

the basic package would be 100 products if he wants more then he would need to upgrade to the next package

this was asked some time back ( http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100031 ) but next got an answer

hoping someone has a solution

What was asked for in that other thread would be a very clear breach of the GPL license under which Zen Cart is distributed, and contrary to the spirit of open source within which Zen Cart is developed.

Thanks for response

So what do web designers/developers do when they want to limit the number of products a store owner has in their store and want to have a package with 0-100 products 0-1000 products and 1000 products +

a greater number of products = more storage and potentially more traffic.

please excuse our ignorance

thanks in advance

hi found a solution and for education purposes the following info is provided

modify products.php by adding the function (number of products in store is limited to 100)

function products_allowed(){

global $db;
global $product_limit;
$product_limit = 100;

  $products = $db->Execute("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status = '1'");
  if ($products->fields['count'] >= $product_limit){return 'true';}
return 'false';
}

add the following case statments

     case 'new_product':
if (products_allowed() == 'true') header("location: product_limit_denied.php");
      break;

      case 'insert_product':
if (products_allowed() == 'true') header("location: product_limit_denied.php");
	break;

then use the file denied.php from admin profiles module , in this example I renamed the file to product_limit_denied.php

this is for educational purposes and is not supported or guaranteed to work.