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[DogByteMan]

I wonder if hidden categories could be the answer to MAP pricing.

Does hidden catagories get added to the HTML catalog?

Do the products in a hidden category get added to a froogal feed?

If the answer to my 2 questions is no... we have the makings of an excellent MAP Mod.

[markwhoo]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hatton

Hi All

Nice MOD Jon. I will look into trying it soon.

To Markwhoo and others:
Hidden Static Pages.

Here are some links on this topic:
http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=13705&highlight=hidden+pages+hatto n

http://forum.x-cart.com/viewtopic.php?t=11602&highlight=

Note: Follow the links and view the examples. If you or anybody else is interested in my mods - email/pmail me and I will give you the details.

Regards
Ing. Stephen Hatton

This is it!

These were the pages I have been looking for. I think this search engine in the forum is useless sometimes. I have used some of the same words in the titles for searches and have come up blank or other off topic items.

Thanks so much and a PM is on the way!

[ghhoz]

Hello Jon,

Firstly I would like to thank you for sharing such a wonderful mod and to Elleven for adding the mod for Version 4.07

Could you please help me with a little something from this mod that is stumping me

I have followed your mod steps (thanks Jon) but with the one change of using the categories.php suitable for V4.0.7 as provided by Elleven.

I have created some 25 hidden categories as I want to use these for a Alpha Image Map. For some reason when I view any of the the hidden categories the Category name appears the same. They all show the name of the very first Hidden Category I created regardless fo the link being different.

Basically I have 25 Hidden categories being A to Z starting from home.php?cat=300 up to home.php?cat=325

Here are a few to see what I mean.

http://www.giftandhomewarehouse.com.au/home.php?cat=300

http://www.giftandhomewarehouse.com.au/home.php?cat=312

http://www.giftandhomewarehouse.com.au/home.php?cat=302

http://www.giftandhomewarehouse.com.au/home.php?cat=321

I hope someone can see past what I see as I am so stumpped with why this is occurring.

Thanks for looking.

[DogByteMan]

Originally Posted by DogByteMan

I wonder if hidden categories could be the answer to MAP pricing.

Does hidden catagories get added to the HTML catalog?

Do the products in a hidden category get added to a froogal feed?

If the answer to my 2 questions is no... we have the makings of an excellent MAP Mod.

Jon,

Do you know if the products in hidden categories are created in the HTML catalog?

Are they added to a froogle feed when using MM 3.0?

Thanks

[Jon]

Sorry to say I'm not sure about either of those scenerios. You can easily test to see if the products of hidden categories are created.

As for MM3 you'd have to ask groovico.

[Alltribes]

FYI, you don't need to modify categories.tpl in 4.0.12, the same is probably true of all 4.x.

I noticed after I applied this mod into my cart that I had forgoten to exclude the hidden categories in the horizontral category menu I have at the bottom of my pages.

When I looked, the hidden categories weren't being displayed. The code is almost identical to the side menu, so I took the if statements out of categories.tpl.

However I now have a problem, how the hell do you display ONLY the hidden categories? Or even display them at all? Is hardcoding the only option?

[Jon]

Sorry I can't provide support for this modification, I don't use the 4.x branches of x-cart and have a hard enough time just keeping my paid modules up to speed with the variety of x-cart releases.

[Alltribes]

I'm sure I'll figure it out. I think it's only loading available categories into the $categories variable.

*edit*
I figured it out. In categories.php I commented out:

$search_condition[] = "$sql_tbl[categories].avail='Y'";

I wouldn't do that if you have disabled categories though. I have no idea where else $search_condition is used. But for me, it fits my needs.

I had to put back the if statements in categories.tpl.

[Jonathan501]

did anyone figure out how to get the name to change?

[ghhoz]

Hello,

Sorry as yet I have not been able to get the name of the categories to work right with this mod. I too would love to know if anyone has this working on the same xcart versions as I use.

Cheers