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Yes I'm about to do that, I'm just still new to all this and it looks like a lot of code to play around with, I guess I'm just paranoid of messing something up, lol. I thought I'd just check again before I went ahead with it. But this is definitely something I want so *deep breath* here I go! I'll post if it works or not :D

Just save the original, nothing bad can happen :) Seriously, you'll be surprised how easy it is once you dig in!

Thanks...I have played around with a few things and made some rather ummm LARGE mistakes hehe. Gotta say, I LOVE that restore button, lol.

Just be very careful, if you hit restore to a template you have already modified, it will go back to the ORIGINAL, default x-cart template. I usually save a back-up of the template locally and restore from that if I am using a modified template.

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Originally Posted by balinor

What I do is test the template, if its ok I overwrite the original via FTP, that way if you restore, you restore with the most updated tested version anyway.

Thank you for this solution, it has helped me today tremendously! In the spirit of Christmas sharing I thought it might be handy if I told you how I got around the SPAM problem ...

Instead of using the mailto: link, I linked it to my Contact Us page and then hacked that template to get the subject automatically populated. So for example on the products.tpl page I used:

Code:

Contact us for a price quote.

Whilst on the product.tpl page I used:

Code:

Contact us for a price quote.

In the contactus.tpl page I added this to the subject field:

Code:

<INPUT type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="32" maxlength="128" value="{$userinfo.subject}{if $smarty.get.subject}{$smarty.get.subject}{/if}">

Re: Email for Pricing

How about an automated response for the price??? We have distributors that will disallow any online price discounts so it would be nice if we could automatically reply with a link to a hidden product with a discounted price or coupon code.

Re: Email for Pricing

HI, could anyone tell an x-cart newbie how to do the "email for prices" for version 4.1.5 please?

Re: Email for Pricing

I don't think there exists a good solution for this.

Re: Email for Pricing

If you have $0 items and don't want the customer to enter a price, here are the instructions for 4.1.7:

In Admin->Languages, add the following text topic:

Variable: txt_contact_us_for_pricing

Value:

PHP Code:


		
			
<a href="help.php?section=contactus&mode=update&subject=Requesting prices for - {{product}}">Contact us</a> for pricing.

In product.tpl, replace:

PHP Code:


		
			
<input type="text" size="7" name="price" />

with:

PHP Code:


		
			
{$lng.txt_contact_us_for_pricing|substitute:"product":$product.product}

In products.tpl, replace:

PHP Code:


		
			
<font class="ProductPrice">{$lng.lbl_enter_your_price}</font>

with:

PHP Code:


		
			
<font class="ProductPrice">{$lng.txt_contact_us_for_pricing|substitute:"product":$products[product].product}</font>

In contactus.tpl, replace:

PHP Code:


		
			
<input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="32" maxlength="128" value="{$userinfo.subject}" />

with:

PHP Code:


		
			
<input type="text" id="subject" name="subject" size="32" maxlength="128" value="{$userinfo.subject} {if $smarty.get.subject}{$smarty.get.subject}{/if}" />

Disabling Add to Cart and not displaying $0 in the Wish List is left as an optional exercise for the reader.