How to turn "Review" function off completely

[shirster]

I would like to turn the "Review" function off completely. Is there a way to do this?

 

Thanks in advance !

[wheeloftime]

I would like to turn the "Review" function off completely. Is there a way to do this?

 

Thanks in advance !

 

The easiest way is to make sure the button doesn't show up so it can't be used and you will not be bothered anymore by it. For that go to your (catalog)/product_info.php and search for:

<td class="main"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_REVIEWS, tep_get_all_get_params()) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_reviews.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_REVIEWS) . '</a>'; ?></td>

change that to

<!--				<td class="main"><?php // echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_REVIEWS, tep_get_all_get_params()) . '">' . tep_image_button('button_reviews.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_REVIEWS) . '</a>'; ?></td> -->

 

Something above there is also a query for pulling in existing reviews which doesn't harm if you leave that as is (there are none anyway) but if you want to slice back one query to the database you can look for

<?php 
$reviews_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_REVIEWS . " where products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "'");

and change that to

<?php //
$reviews_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_REVIEWS . " where products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "'");

 

That is all.

[♥Monika in Germany]

if you still have the reviews box in column right, comment that out too!

[wheeloftime]

if you still have the reviews box in column right, comment that out too!

 

Wow, forgot about that one. Thanks Monika !

[shirster]

thanks for the direction guys ! works perfectly !

 

ps. for those of you who use BTS like i do, it's the catalog/templates/fallback/content/product_info.tpl.php file you wanna look at.

 

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