New Products

[EmpressChang]

Could anyone help me remove the "New Products for Month" from the front page?

 

I did a search through the forums and came up empty handed.

 

Thank you!

[hankfrid]

In your catalog/default.php, you should find a section of code down around line 284 (in my snapshop 20030514 version, at least) that looks like this:

 

<?php

} else { // default page

?>

<td width="100%" valign="top"><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="pageHeading"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></td>

<td class="pageHeading" align="right"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'table_background_default.gif', HEADING_TITLE, HEADING_IMAGE_WIDTH, HEADING_IMAGE_HEIGHT); ?></td>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><?php echo tep_draw_separator('pixel_trans.gif', '100%', '10'); ?></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">

<tr>

<td class="main"><?php echo tep_customer_greeting(); ?></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="main"><br><?php echo TEXT_MAIN; ?></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><br><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php

include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_UPCOMING_PRODUCTS);

?>

</table></td>

</tr>

</table></td>

 

Your code in your viewer will probably stretch out and not be this many lines, but look above about 9 lines, and you see the <tr> entry for NEW_PRODUCTS after the "Text Main" piece? If you comment out that <tr> thru the very next </tr>, it should remove it from your default page.

 

Make sure you BACKUP before making any changes.

 

HankFrid

[Ajeh]

A slightly easier way to turn that off ...

 

Change the code from:

 

<tr> 

<td><br><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td> 

</tr>

 

To read:

<tr> 

<td><br><?php // include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?></td> 

</tr>

[hankfrid]

Linda;

 

Thank you for your input, that does look simpler.

If you put the "//" in the middle of the line, when does it stop treating the code as comments? Is it after the ";"? Just wondering, as I am newer to php and wouldn't have thought of that.

 

Thanks again.

HankFrid

 

Can you tell I was bored on a holiday weekend? Trying to answer peoples questions, as I figured not too many of us were out here just messing around for their Memorial Day weekend activity.

 

lol

[Ajeh]

Linda;

 

Thank you for your input, that does look simpler.

If you put the "//" in the middle of the line, when does it stop treating the code as comments? Is it after the ";"? Just wondering, as I am newer to php and wouldn't have thought of that.

 

Thanks again.

HankFrid

 

Can you tell I was bored on a holiday weekend? Trying to answer peoples questions, as I figured not too many of us were out here just messing around for their Memorial Day weekend activity.

 

lol

 

I use to go for those elaborate edits too ... then was playing one day and thought ... gee ... wonder what happens if this line just becomes a comment rather than a real includes ... lo abd behold ... it worked ... :shock:

 

Saved me oh so much work ... to say the least.

 

Comments like the // rule until the end of the line, in this case the ; ?> so it stops right there.

[hankfrid]

Linda;

 

Sorry to hound you a little more, but......

 

If it treats the area starting with the "//" and ending with the end of the line as comments, then doesn't that leave the <?php stranded without a ?> to finish the php code section? Or doesn't php care once it sees the new <?php a couple of lines down?

 

Thanks,

HankFrid

[Ajeh]

Linda;

 

Sorry to hound you a little more, but......

 

If it treats the area starting with the "//" and ending with the end of the line as comments, then doesn't that leave the <?php stranded without a ?> to finish the php code section? Or doesn't php care once it sees the new <?php a couple of lines down?

 

Actually what it does is this ...

 

The original line reads:

<?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?>

 

This is the same thing as:

<?php 

include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); 

?>

 

So when you add the comments to:

<?php // include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); ?>

 

It is reading it as:

<?php 

// include(DIR_WS_MODULES . FILENAME_NEW_PRODUCTS); 

?>

 

It's just because it is on one line that this can seem a bit befuddling on how that works. :D

[hankfrid]

Thank you very much for explaining that. Yes, with it on one line, it was a little confusing.

 

Thanks again.

 

HankFrid

[phamtastic]

How do I remove new products for the month for the individual product pages?

[xjuzr]

How do I remove new products for the month for the individual product pages?

 

I have searched for days now it seems in the oscommerce files and in this forum to no avail.

 

How can I make "New Products for whatever" go away all together.

Surely I am not the only person who doesn't want to use this feature.

Can someone please help?

 

best regards,

mikeb