Adding New Product_types

Sorry, but the Music Genre is not multi-lingual at this time.

hi guys am having trouble adding products to my categories because my categories are restricted to sub-categories .so i want to find a way of removing the product types or disabling them but at the same time i want to put sub- categories to my main categories.

thanx hear from you soon.

danden:

hi guys am having trouble adding products to my categories because my categories are restricted to sub-categories .so i want to find a way of removing the product types or disabling them but at the same time i want to put sub- categories to my main categories.Sorry, but your question is very unclear. Product types are, for example: general product, document, book. Are you saying that you have categories limited to a particular product type and want to add products of a different type to them. Or are you saying that you can't add products to a category that already has subcategories?

when i try to add products to my categories i receive a message that tells me that i cant add products to my category because my categories are restricted to product types so i want to change my category setings and restrictions or i want to disable the product types so that i can add products to my categories....... but i dont know how do it. please help me.

when i try to add products to my categories i receive a message that tells me that i cant add products to my category because my categories are restricted to product types so i want to change my category setings and restrictions or i want to disable the product types so that i can add products to my categories....... but i dont know how do it. please help me.

when i try to add products to my categories i receive a message that tells me that i cant add products to my category because my categories are restricted to product types so i want to change my category setings and restrictions or i want to disable the product types so that i can add products to my categories....... but i dont know how do it. please help me.

when i try to add products to my categories i receive a message that tells me that i cant add products to my category because my categories are restricted to product types so i want to change my category setings and restrictions or i want to disable the product types so that i can add products to my categories....... but i dont know how do it. please help me.

all my categories are restricted to a certain product-type, But this restriction affect creation of NEW products as i can not add any new products.how can i remove or disable the product types so that i can add new products to my categories.

@danden

Please read this very carefully

I have all my items in "general". I want to have them in two categories. How can I do it? Simple solution please...

And there is no new category button in "Categories / Products - Top".

To add new product types seems to be a whole lot of work and a source for many errors. Would it not be more wisely for some one who understand how to do it to do a bunch of standard types. They can bee just named A,B, C and so on because it seems to be possible to name them to something reconcilable in the php admin interface or do I missed something?

Is it even necessary to add more product types?

I posted this as a new topic but didn't get any responses, perhaps this thread is a better place to ask this question:

Zen Cart: v1.3.9h

I'm adding a new product type, and have got the preview_info.php working no problem when I create a new product or edit a product via the admin Catalog->Categories/Products page.

The problem is for existing products that I have already created and I click on the "Preview" icon in the list view under the Catalog->Categories/Products page.

My preview_info.php loads, but all the defines I use for my printout are not being translated to show the correct output.

Example, in /admin/includes/languages/english/product_<my_type>.php I have:

  define('TEXT_DIMENSIONS_PREVIEW',          'Dimensions: %s');

This appears correctly when I get to preview_info.php when creating a new product or editing an existing one.

 Dimensions: 200 x 100 x 50 mm

But when I click on the "Preview" icon, it displays incorrectly:

TEXT_DIMENSIONS_PREVIEW

I have tracked down this "Preview" link to /admin/includes/modules/category_product_listing.php, but can't figure out what's wrong.

It is definitely resolving to point to the correct preview_info.php that I have in /admins/includes/modules/product_<my_type>/preview_info.php, but some how, the defines php file is not getting included. :frusty:

A quick and easy way to reproduce the above in the demo site is described in my original thread:

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1015076#post1015076

Hi I have been trying to add new product type but have failed.

i have tried instructions from 3 different sources and still cant manage to get any reaction.

1. http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43663
2. http://smallbusinessconsultingexperts.com/blog/files/zen_cart_new_product_types.php
3. http://blog.kineticpulse.co.uk/2010/11/creating-new-product-type-in-zen-cart.html
   Why i say i have failed is because i cant see them as input when i select new product type and create new product under that product type.

what is it im doing wrong if i dont see it in the create new product page ?(action=new_product)

or rather what is the basic step to get it appear there first.

Help: I was in Catalog-then Product types-then I edited Product-general and try to put it back to the way it was-but....I think I messed up where you put the product handler information. I thought it was product_general and the last part I clicked This product should be considered a sub-type of (then I put Product-General). When I try to add my very first product after I made a category for it, I get 404 admin error-but if I choose product-music, document general etc. it will let me add a product.
So I guess, I need what to put in the product handler spot and what should I choose from the drop down in the the sub-caterory box.
I CANNOT add one product until I fix this :(

OwlHollow:

then I edited Product-general
Maybe you did not restore it correctly

Get a fresh replacement from a new distribution

OwlHollow:

Help: I was in Catalog-then Product types-then I edited Product-general and try to put it back to the way it was-but....I think I messed up where you put the product handler information. I thought it was product_general and the last part I clicked This product should be considered a sub-type of (then I put Product-General). When I try to add my very first product after I made a category for it, I get 404 admin error-but if I choose product-music, document general etc. it will let me add a product.
So I guess, I need what to put in the product handler spot and what should I choose from the drop down in the the sub-caterory box.
I CANNOT add one product until I fix this :(

The correct "handler" for Product-General is "product".

THANK YOU-Here is a big HUG!! I have sat here idle since yesterday afternoon-and here it took one minute for a kind person to help me-thank you so much!!

Hey guys, i don't know how active this thread still is, but i couldn't find anyone else with a similar issue. I'm trying to add a new product type for DVD's, but it just doesn't show anything when i try to actually create a product in the catalog with that type! It shows up as a choice down where it says product type, but then when i create new, it shows this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '[' in /////product_dvd.php on line 11

I have made its own directory in the admin/includes/modules as a handler, and made the handler file to call it, and then i added a language file for it - i mostly copied from the music format since i wanted to add extra fields like studio and genre. then i made the catalog template files. i really don't know what i've missed, i've been pouring over the handler file for days, but i can't figure out what's wrong! it seems to match the exact format as the product_music file, and the languages file seems fine too! UGH! does anyone know what i might be missing?