hideCategories

For your first question... no. Unless you modified the contribution. Its probably doable, but that falls into the "programming for hire" category if you want me to do it.

However... think about it. Unless you REQUIRE customers to be logged in before they can see any products (which is a setting in Zen, but not very user friendly so I doubt many use it) the system won't know who's from Chicago or not until they log in. So you'd still have people outside of Chicago seeing the item, they just can't order it... is that what you want? But then it has nothing to do with this contrib. See what I mean? If you do require shoppers to be logged in to view your store, then it could work. But I think (my opinion) would be best is forget this mod for that... make a new mod that instead disallows checkout for certain items based on location and have a note in the product page saying "for local customers only" or something like that. Not an easy mod to make, but certainly possible.

2nd question... when it comes to conflicting mods, sorry... its not something I'm interesting in helping to debug. Too many variables. First thing... remove hideCategories and make sure its not just a bug with their mod that exists anyway.

• Steven

I have a question is there a reason why that when I try to download the new version of hideCategories it just opens in my browsers and does not download as a zip?

ok it only happens in firefox

is it possible to only hide the categories untill a customer logs in

colemanpa:

I have a question is there a reason why that when I try to download the new version of hideCategories it just opens in my browsers and does not download as a zip?

ok it only happens in firefox

Yes, browser issue. I think the admin is repackaging it as a zip. You can right click and choose "Save Target As..." and it will work.

CnTGifts:

is it possible to only hide the categories untill a customer logs in

Possible, sure.

As is said in the readme and above in this thread... it is what it is. If you need it to be something else, either modify it or pay someone (me if you catch me at a down time) to do it for you. It was developed for a specific purpose and the company that paid for it was kind enough to have me release it back to the public... whether or not it suits you as-is is for you to decide.

Now, to possibly save you time and/or money... if you want to hide EVERYTHING from customers until they log in, that's already built into ZenCart. But if you want specific categories hidden until a customer logs in... you're up the right alley... it would be this mod, but changed. Actually shouldn't be too hard to do, and maybe someone would be willing to make that change for you au gratis. I don't have the time right now (for freebies or otherwise) though, sorry.

• Steven

yeah i dont want everything hidden, just the categories

Is it possible to hide a category from general customers - but make it visible to groups with this? I'm wanting a way to hide Consultant supplies from the general customers, but make them available for purchase to my Consultants. I have the Consultants set up for group pricing.

Here is the site I'm working on:
http://www.undertherainbow-gifts.com

I want the Consultants and Distributors to be able to view and purchase marketing and sales supplies without the general customers seeing it.

Read above... same answer. Yes, its possible but not as-is - it has to be modified for that purpose.

• Steven

Do I need to sit down before I ask you what you'd charge for this modification? :lookaroun

i just installed this and somehow, it removed all my category annd prodyct meta tags

Ralyn:

Do I need to sit down before I ask you what you'd charge for this modification? :lookaroun

Sorry, I didn't see this until now. Contact me via PM for custom coding requests... however, I'm not really taking any projects on right at the moment as I'm far too busy.

CnTGifts:

i just installed this and somehow, it removed all my category annd prodyct meta tags

That is very unlikely.

• Steven

So I read the readMe carefully, ran the SQL in ZenCart admin (then in mysqladmin to make sure), edited the category I wanted to hide by choosing "hidden" and then logged on to my shop.

Problem is, I can still see the category in the categories list and in the parent category's contents.

I hope I'm being stupid but only if someone can point out exactly why. Any help would be much appreciated.

Ralyn:

Is it possible to hide a category from general customers - but make it visible to groups with this? I'm wanting a way to hide Consultant supplies from the general customers, but make them available for purchase to my Consultants. I have the Consultants set up for group pricing.

Here is the site I'm working on:
http://www.undertherainbow-gifts.com

I want the Consultants and Distributors to be able to view and purchase marketing and sales supplies without the general customers seeing it.

yes, i also want this to work in my site wherein there are categories where are hidden to public.

thankz

You were right not to respond Mr Mack ... I had three problems you see:

1. My template was not YOUR_TEMPLATE
2. Version 1.3.0.2 does not have the function zen_get_new_date_range() ... I commented it out
3. In reference to point 1 ... I am a tool

It works, it's good

Good to know ;)

Incidentally... I wasn't ignoring you. I try to respond to every post (at least the ones that I can think of a reasonable response to) but I've always had a problem with this zen-cart.com site NOT NOTIFYING ME when there is a reply to a thread I am subscribed to. Sometimes I get them (like this time) but sometimes I don't (like your original post).

• Steven

I installed the mod but I can't find anything in the admin to turn it on? I re looked it over and I changed all the my_template folders and ran the sql file so I don't understand, is anyone else had this problem, and where in the admin should it be? any help would be great.

HI There
installed and working fine BUT
the "hidden" category still appears in the TOP menu underneath the image logo? Have i missed something? On 1.38

thanks

colemanpa:

I installed the mod but I can't find anything in the admin to turn it on? I re looked it over and I changed all the my_template folders and ran the sql file so I don't understand, is anyone else had this problem, and where in the admin should it be? any help would be great.

davidandrews:

HI There
installed and working fine BUT
the "hidden" category still appears in the TOP menu underneath the image logo? Have i missed something? On 1.38

thanks

A little reading goes a long way. Colemanpa, your answer is in the readme file. David, yours is in this thread somewhere because I know I answered it before... its also in the readme less directly under "Limitations". The site I developed it for doesn't use that top menu so it wasn't part of the contrib.

• Steven

I apologise , shouldn't run in the way I do!
Love the contribution, and the community appreciate your work, thankyou

s_mack:

A little reading goes a long way. Colemanpa, your answer is in the readme file. David, yours is in this thread somewhere because I know I answered it before... its also in the readme less directly under "Limitations". The site I developed it for doesn't use that top menu so it wasn't part of the contrib.

• Steven

I'm curious in adding this feature... how did you go about making the categories hidden from the other menus? is there a file thats referenced for that top menu?

I honestly don't know. That's the inherent problem with this contribution is that everywhere you want to hide the categories from has to be dealt with individually. When I first started the project, I remember thinking I could probably do it at some higher level, and the trickle down effect would have it hidden from everything with one bit of code. But it didn't turn out that way and it had to be done individually.

Go through the readme for tips and look at the code in the files I've provided to get an idea of how its done and see if you can find where the code for the upper menu is and hide it in a similar fashion.

Its probably pretty easy. And if I was bored with nothing to do, I'd likely take a look at it. But right now I'm so busy that even if you told me you'd pay me $1000 I'd have to pass. Ok, well... maybe not $1000 :) But any reasonable amount I'd have to pass on.

Sorry I can't help more than that.

• Steven