Hide/disable manufacturer and supplier pages from F.O.

[DARKF3D3]

I'm using manufactured and supplier into back office, but i don't want to show them on my shop.

Ho can i disable them only of F.O.?

[shokinro]

you can uninstall related modules that shows manufacture block and supplier block.

 

manufacturer block 

supplier block

[DARKF3D3]

I disabled and uninstalled both the module, but the page are still available, in fact they can be opened typing the url in the browser, and teh're also indexed on search engine.

[shokinro]

The page is always there as long as the page controller is there.

If you want complete; remove this page, you need rename or remove the page controller

 

/controllers/front/ManufacturerController.php

/controllers/front/SupplierController.php

 

[DARKF3D3]

You mean renaming that I have to rename that 2 files?

[shokinro]

yes the 2 files to something else, for example

 

 

/controllers/front/ManufacturerController.php  ==> ManufacturerController.php.disabled

/controllers/front/SupplierController.php  ==> SupplierContoller.php.disabled

 

[rocky]

There's actually a setting available for this in the Back Office. Go to the Preferences > General tab and change "Display suppliers and manufacturers" to "No" and then click the "Save" button at the bottom.

[DARKF3D3]

Hello rocky, I looked at that setting but it was already disable on both my website, but the manufacturer pages are still visible.

[rocky]

Weird. I guess you must be using a third-party theme that doesn't support that option.

[shokinro]

I think the configuration option will only hide or remove option for manufacturer or suppliers on product related pages.

but if you manually enter the URL of the page ( can be opened typing the url in the browser), it will still shows because the pages are always there unless you rename/remove the page controller.

[DARKF3D3]

Following the shokinro tip I renamed supplier and manufacturer controller, and now that pages are no more visible.

The only annoying thing it's that now my server error log it's full of warns like this one:

mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error:  Class 'ManufacturerControllerCore' not found in /var/www/vhosts/my-domain.com/httpdocs/override/controllers/front/ManufacturerController.php on line 11

 

Do you know if there's an alternative method to avoid this?

[slamvape]

I don't understand why have both Manufacturer and supplier are together. Do you really want your customers to know who your suppliers are?

[Ben Rich]

I don't know if my solution is the best way of doing it but it's better than anything here.  Hope it helps

Add an override file here: ./overrides/controllers/front/ManufacturerController.php

<?php

class ManufacturerController extends ManufacturerControllerCore
{
	public function initContent()
	{
		parent::initContent();
		
		// set 404 headers
		header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
		header('Status: 404 Not Found');
		
		// load 404 template
		$this->setTemplate(_PS_THEME_DIR_.'404.tpl');
	}
}

The same will no doubt be true for the Supplier Controller.

Also remember to remove manufacturer & supplier from our robots.txt file