[Solved] Specials

[leelee23]

Hi there,

I'm currently trying to customise a link for 'Specials' only to be displayed if there are actually items within the catalog containing a discounted item. Was hoping there'd be some simple coding to do this check - but having scoured the files I haven't really noticed anything!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers

[rocky]

To display a Specials link only when specials exist, you could put the following in the PHP file:

$special = Product::getRandomSpecial(intval($params['cookie']->id_lang));

then the following in the TPL file:

{if $special}<a href="{$base_dir}prices-drop.php">{l s='Specials'}{/if}

[leelee23]

Hi rocky,

Thanks for the reply. I've just tried it out (basically this is within a horizontal navigation bar) but when doing it in the .php and .tpl as suggested the link is removed even when there is items with the specials section. Any further suggestions on this?

I also tried moving the first bit of code into the header to see if it was a problem with that specific bit of coding - but to no prevail!

Thanks

[rocky]

Perhaps $param['cookie'] doesn't exist in that module. Try the following instead:

$special = Product::getRandomSpecial(intval($cookie->id_lang)); 

[leelee23]

Hi rocky, thanks again for the help! Sadly, this didn't work either - any further suggestions? lol

[rocky]

Make sure that $cookie is defined as a global variable. At the top of the function where you are adding the code, there should be a line like this:

global $cookie;

[leelee23]

Sorry about this rocky, but again for some reason it's not working (I really do appreciate your help and assistance by the way!!!)

You're right, the

global $cookie; 

was missing but even inserting it (and trying all of the combinations of the $special didn't do the trick! It's pretty frustrating as I can see it's obviously working with the blockspecials - as that can be hidden using technique.

Therefore I took a look at what blockspecial.php was doing and I was suprised to see there was no mention of the

global $cookie; 

in there either!

Any further thoughts/suggestions with this?

Thanks again

[rocky]

That's because the specials block uses $params['cookie'], which your menu module doesn't provide. It is hard to help without actually having the menu module to play around with.

[leelee23]

That's understandable... I've zipped the module up and attached it. If you get a chance to take a look, that'd be amazing!

Cheers

categoriesbar.zip

[rocky]

Here's the updated code. I added the $params['cookie'] code above and it seems to be working fine.

categoriesbar.zip

[leelee23]

Oh dear, that's embaressing from me - I think I don't think I'd put it in the function... D'OH! Thanks a lot though rocky, really appreciate this and all the other fantastic help you give on this forum. Keep up the good work