Remove price field for specific categories

[adexinc]

Hi,
Can you please advise how I would go about removing the price field entirely for certain categories? I realize the price field is not accessible via admin... would I delete this field in the database and create a new 'extra field' called price for only the categories that require it? Or would I leave it as is and change the code somewhere (?) so that the price field does not appear in certain categories? (when placing an ad and when viewing the listings i would not want the price field to appear at all for specific categories)

Thank you.
Joanna.
Running 4.1.5 deepsea template

[Lhotch]

forum search is your friend....

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[adexinc]

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I have searched the forum was unable to find any answers to my query. All the answers seem to point to updating user groups.... not categories.

Joanna.

[Mike-N-Tosh]

PHP Code:

{if $sDisPrice == "Y"}
   {if $entry.price == '0.00'}
        
   {else}
       {$smarty.const.LANG_PRICE} {$entry.price|format_money}
   {/if}
{/if} 


[magicosta]

Hello there,

Thank you for that code.

Can you tell us where it is supposed to be put...what file and where in that file, thank you Mike

[seymourjames]

This code goes into the appropriate template files like showlistings, viewlistings, etc. Wherever price is used or displayed.

Quite a bit of work in fact. The custom categories module may perhaps be better way forward. Sure Eric will respond on that.

Testing price==0.00 it is nearly what you are asking for but it assumes 0.00 means no price to be shown. What you actually ask from what I can see is test for the categories that do not need to show price. You need to get hold of the variable for each category or categoryID (need to check what is available in the template file you are editing using debug (search on forum on how to use that) and test for it appropriately. At its simplest it is this below but each file is structured a little differently on how it is displaying price.


{if $sDisPrice == "Y" }
{if $category == "blabla" || $category == "another" || etc}
{$smarty.const.LANG_PRICE} {$entry.price|format_money}
{/if}
 
{/if}
{/if}

[adexinc]

Thanks Seymour

I'm working on it now and hopefully will have it running soon. I noticed so far I have had to make some changes to the database Checkout table but so far so good. Should this end up being successful I will post what I have done.

Thanks again.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by adexinc

Thanks Seymour

I'm working on it now and hopefully will have it running soon. I noticed so far I have had to make some changes to the database Checkout table but so far so good. Should this end up being successful I will post what I have done.

Thanks again.

Im not sure why you would have to make changes to the database tables to accomplish what you want but irregardless, changing any of the default database table layout is a very bad idea. I say this because you could possibly render 3rd party mods inoperable or unusable. You could also make upgrading 68C impossible.