hideCategories

That's the problem with contribs... any contribs... that have to touch core files or tempate files. Just look at all the files that were incuded with the contrib, and use a tool like WinMerge to compare them to the ORIGINAL files. Then compare them to the css files you altered and try to pick out what happened. Its probably the template files in this contrib you have to look at, but not necessarily only those. Because Zen is a collaborative effort, they don't have consistent coding all the time so you may have to do different things in different places to achieve the same resuts.

Good luck!

• Steven

s_mack:

That's the problem with contribs... any contribs... that have to touch core files or tempate files. Just look at all the files that were incuded with the contrib, and use a tool like WinMerge to compare them to the ORIGINAL files. Then compare them to the css files you altered and try to pick out what happened. Its probably the template files in this contrib you have to look at, but not necessarily only those. Because Zen is a collaborative effort, they don't have consistent coding all the time so you may have to do different things in different places to achieve the same resuts.

Good luck!

• Steven

So true.

I did go through and figured out the problem. I had replaced the sidebox template that included the hideCat functionality. Now all is well. So changing the id's and classes really did not do much. Though I did not get rid of any id or class that was generated by ZC so that helped I think.

Thanks for the quick response.

Hi -

I'm having an issue with this. I've installed the files properly, as directed, and the SQL query runs fine. however, when I go to edit any category, I'm presented with this message:

1146 Table 'databasename.TABLE_HIDE_CATEGORIES' doesn't exist
in:
[select visibility_status FROM TABLE_HIDE_CATEGORIES WHERE categories_id = 4 LIMIT 1]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

Now, I've gone through phpMyAdmin and dropped the table, and hand-built the table myself to no avail. I dropped the table again and ran your query directly through phpMyAdmin. the table IS indeed there, but so is the error in the admin area.

I cannot find a reason why it won't recognize th table is there - I can see it, and it's just as it should be - yet it won't let me do anything.

Have any ideas for me?

...and for the record, I've been doing more searching on this issue, and I see it's been a problem before. However all stated solutions (adding the "TABLE_PRODUCTS..." stuff) have already been added to the latest release - and it's not working. It's really strange. So just so you know I'm not posting just ot post (and I haven't done searches) - I have, and even googled it as well. All possible solutions I've found have been tried - yet here I am...so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Is that the exact error?

it actually says "databasename.TABLE_HIDE [etc etc]"?

Or you replaced your database name with "databasename"?

I replaced my actual database name with the word "databasename".

First of all thank you so much for this module! I installed it and it worked great! I am now in the process of creating a product for a category hidden when I chanced upon a google search and found that the category I hid was listed on google?

I suppose I should put something in the robot.txt to prevent the spider from collecting data on the category?

Yeah. There was nothing in the module to hide it from spiders. Probably getting it from your sitemap or something... or just nabbed it before you hid it? Obviously the pages are still valid HTML pages so Google won't know you intended to hide it.

Is there a way to prevent the spider from picking up the data? e.g specifying it in robot.txt...(though not sure how to do this)

Yes, I would think that would work. Can't really help you with that thought. Probably best to do some searching on Google for something like "robots.txt dynamic pages" or something like that.

i can seem to get hide categories to work with expanded_category_list_1-01 or any other catagory sidebox

I suppose the obvious answer then is to not use those modifications. or don't use this one.

Hi, i'm trying to use this interesting mod.
I want to hide some category, but i want to let user search into hide categories or into real category
For example, i've 2 different way to let user find a product:
From category sidebox menu or from different tipe of category, but i don't want loading them every time into sidebox so i'm trying to use this mod; or from advanced seach

now i need a second category box or a different advanced search...or a second quick search with category and subcategory selection, to let users searching selecting the hidden category
it's possible?

i have installed this mod with only a few issues.

I have my products set to list as columns (NOT ROWS) but only one column will show up.

Also looks like breadcrumbs is back on even when trurned off in the admin area.
(ie)
1 if i go to a categorie that has sub cats (at the top of the page it has the cat NAME then under that has cat descritpion)
(to fix this - i removed all the cat descriptions)

2 When i click on a sub cat with products. you get the cat NAME (this is fine) but under this you get four items that were not there before.

New Products (MORE)
Product Image
Item Name
Price+

Thanks in advance for any help you can give..

Site https://www.halloweenspace.com

I uninstalled this until someone can reply with any insight.

So when you go to the site it may look likes its working but again as above i removed this mod.

I installed this and although it shows up in my admin, I can still see the category I've hidden on the front end. Am I doing something wrong? I just went to Catalog?Categories/Product and edited the category that i wanted to hide. I chose "Hidden from main menus" and updated it. The icon for that category shows up as a lighter shade of yellow with a red dot in it, so I assume that was correct. However, on my front end, it still shows up under the category listing.

As a general FYI: I am not providing support. As stated all along, this was made for a certain situation and it may not suit yours. Read the readme (that answers most of the Qs) and post here for PEER support, but do not PM me please looking for help with this. I am way too busy now and in the forseeable future.

In general, if this doesn't do what you want then it is probably better to hire someone (or do yourself) to start from scratch then it is to force this into something it isn't.

• Steven

fright-rags:

I installed this and although it shows up in my admin, I can still see the category I've hidden on the front end. Am I doing something wrong? I just went to Catalog?Categories/Product and edited the category that i wanted to hide. I chose "Hidden from main menus" and updated it. The icon for that category shows up as a lighter shade of yellow with a red dot in it, so I assume that was correct. However, on my front end, it still shows up under the category listing.

You probably didn't merge the files correctly. This mod needs to be merged with your admin files, just like it says in the readme. Go back and double check that. There are a few to merge in. Easy way to do this is to use WinMerge. It is free, there are others, that may be better, but that takes care of that.

Separately, has anyone used this program with Google sitemaps? I noticed that my hidden cats are still in my sitemaps and want to mod that mod to not do that with the hidden cats.

Thanks, Matt

Hey There,

Your mod might be just what I'm after..

However, I noticed one of the files overwritten is the categories sidebox, which might cause a problem with the store I'm thinking of using this module on, because I'm using the yahoo AJAX category tree module.

Thanks for this one.

I'm just wondering if someone knows if I can keep a category in the categories sidebox but exclude it from the best sellers sidebox?

I apologise if this has been asked before, I've been unable to find a way to remove a category from the best sellers sidebox.