hideCategories

gjh42:

You mean like the link in the post above yours? :)

Seriously, you are only going to be able to see the effect of the mod by having admin access to a site, or the site owner giving you a link to a hidden category on their site.

And how am I suppose to know if their is a link or if the one above my post works unless I ask?

is this 1.3.8 compatible? I installed and set a category to hidden from menus but it still shows up.

Probably :)

I have no plans to upgrade to 1.3.8 just to find out. But I would think the answer is yes - looking at the list of changes there doesn't seem to be anything related to categories views. Although, I admit I skimmed.

• Steven

yep, it is actually, I missed renaming one of the folders to my template name.

I am getting an error on my left navigation...

1054 Unknown column 'cPath' in 'where clause'
in:
[select visibility_status FROM zen_hide_categories WHERE categories_id = cPath LIMIT 1]

any help would be appreciated :(

For some reason your cPath variable is being presented literally instead of showing the value of the variable "cPath". Probably a conflict with another mod you have installed. Maybe something SEO related. Good luck.

Ahhh, you're right..
I had a ul list mod on my left nav

Got this mod working ... it is perfect for what I needed it for. Howevor, upon installing it my layout changed and I have not been able to fix it.

What I had was 4 column categories 4 column product listings ..... once I installed the hidden category mod suddenly my column ability for products went away and no matter what i changed it still listed 1 product per row. I adjusted my settings so it looks like I meant it now (lol) but I'd still like to get my 4 across for my product listings.

I'm thinking somehow it changed something in the coding that the configuration: product listing settings won't overide?

**www.badgersden.com** - Once you get past the categories in to the products you'll see that they are listed by row now .... not quite what I am wanting. Advice please?? :)

Sign me ...
a confused badger ...

I don't readily see what could be causing any difference in display of the product listings... but then again, I didn't know you COULD list the products 4x :)

Probably one of the template files... try comparing to the originals and see if you can spot it. I looked at the two module files and I can't see those changes affecting anything... they just hide.

Just to clarify .... I meant that my products listed across 4 to a row -- not 4 x per product :P

What / where do I compare? I'm still rather new to all this.

OK .. got it working now :)

The hide mod over wrote the product / column mod I had forgotten I installed ... lol .... it's all playing nicely together now after a few tweaks and pokes.

Thanks

badgersden:

OK .. got it working now :)

The hide mod over wrote the product / column mod I had forgotten I installed ... lol .... it's all playing nicely together now after a few tweaks and pokes.

Thanks

I am having the same problem, but can't find where to tweak and poke...
Can you tell me just what modifications you made to get the columns back as they were?

I have just installed this in the hope I could hide categories from the general public but not from certain user but it seems not possible?

I also do not see an ICON change:
/admin/images/icons/folder_HIDDEN.gif
/admin/images/icons/folder_NOMENU.gif
/admin/images/icons/folder_NORMAL.gif

do not show up in the admin area.
any ideas?

No, that is not what the module is intended for. Though I'm sure its not much of a stretch to modify it for that use.

If you installed it according to the instructions and put the files in the right place, then you'll see those images when you change the folder's hidden status.

• Steven

s_mack:

No, that is not what the module is intended for. Though I'm sure its not much of a stretch to modify it for that use.

If you installed it according to the instructions and put the files in the right place, then you'll see those images when you change the folder's hidden status.

• Steven

I double checked and the permissions also but the change in status does not change the icon.
I'll try re-install the whole thing again.

So what would I need to change in order to Hide All Categories from the general public but not a user or group.?
I have seen many inquiries about it here in my search for such a thing so I am not alone in this.

Ideally there would be a option in user or group settings to set the category visible or not

If you read the readme/instructions then you'd also see that this isn't a contribution that will be right for everyone and necessarily do what they want. It was built for a specific purpose and released in case it met other people's needs, and that's it. If you need it to do something in particular that it doesn't do, then you are welcome (under the GNU license terms) to modify it as you see fit. If you want me to do it, then you're welcome to solicit my services for a fee by personal message.

As for it not working for you, what can I say? You've given me next to no details so all I can tell you is it works for others, it has been tested to work on a fresh install... so either you did something wrong or perhaps it is conflicting with something (though I can't imagine what with the images you're talking about).

Is this compatible with Glen's Categories Dressing contrib?

Thanks,

Tinman

beats me. There are so many contribs out there that its impossible for the authors to maintain a list. The only person that can find out is you. Download both packages and look at them... any files in common? If yes, then it will NOT be compatible without a little work - you have to go through both and find what's different and merge them carefully. Hopefully, if they are both well written it will be easy to find the blocks of code for that module. If no, then it doesn't mean they WILL work together, but no harm in trying.

Never "try" anything on a live site, and always have backups. Good luck.

• Steven

Incidentally, I've updated this contribution to reflect some changes in 1.3.8 that went previously unnoticed. They aparantly are not crucial as nobody reported any problems, but there were significant updates to the core code so its not a bad idea to update. If updating, you don't have to run the SQL, just copy the files. I've uploaded it to the downloads section, but it may take a bit for it to show up.

• Steven

Steven,

I just tested this mod and it works great under the classic template. Nice to be able to block categories from the search feature.

A couple questions:

Is there a way to selectively have categories hidden depending on some setting for customers? I ask because we sell a line of paper products, but only make them available to our customers local. We don't want people outside of Chicago attempting to order them online (hence your mod is perfect...).

So... How would you suggest I set things up??

Second Question:

I tested your mod using Jade's Horizontal Dropdown Menu, and Apple Template, but something is throwing an error, and not showing the menu. Install is 1.3.8a.

(correct for URL)
chicagophoto <dot> net <forward-slash> apple

If you could point me in the right direction to finding what is causing this that would be a great help! Odd thing is, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt' depending on what you click.

BTW. The "chaddro" category is supposed to be hidden. Click home, you see the error. Click chaddro and you get the drop menu and no errors... ???

Gotta love programming!

-chaddro