Leaving Sold Items on the site?

[arc]

hi everyone,

 

i tried doing a search but was unable to find anything. my question is this:

 

as of right now, everytime a product is sold (all my products are unique so there is only one inventory), it is removed from the site.

 

i would like to be able to leave sold-out products on the site. instead of showing the price, i would like to have it say SOLD OUT. that way my customers know what i had but now is sold.

 

thanks in advance,

 

Johnny

[Guest]

you can set it to check stock and if stock is 0 is shows the sold_out image instead of the cart button

[arc]

how about this? my products are displayed 3 to a row thanks to a contribution i found. I found the following code that makes it display it in 3 columns (so it shows the image, then shows the product name below it and then below that..the price).

 

// Class modified by Denis

 class tableBox2 {

   var $table_border = '0';

   var $table_width = '100%';

   var $table_cellspacing = '0';

   var $table_cellpadding = '2';

   var $table_parameters = '';

   var $table_row_parameters = '';

   var $table_data_parameters = '';

var $denis_counter = 0;



// class constructor

   function tableBox2($contents, $direct_output = false) {

     $tableBox_string = '<table border="' . $this->table_border . '" width="' . $this->table_width . '" cellspacing="' . $this->table_cellspacing . '" cellpadding="' . $this->table_cellpadding . '"';

     if ($this->table_parameters != '') $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $this->table_parameters;

     $tableBox_string .= '><tr valign="top" align="center">' . "n";



     for ($i=0; $i<sizeof($contents); $i++) {

    if ($denis_counter == 4) {

	 $denis_counter = 0;

	 $tableBox_string .= '  </tr><tr><td><br></td></tr><tr valign="top" align="center">';

 }

 $denis_counter ++;

 

       if ($contents[$i]['form']) $tableBox_string .= $contents[$i]['form'] . "n";

       $tableBox_string .= '  <td width="25%"';

       if ($this->table_row_parameters != '') $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $this->table_row_parameters;

       if ($contents[$i]['params']) $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $contents[$i]['params'];

       $tableBox_string .= '><table border=0>' . "n";



       if (is_array($contents[$i][0])) {

         for ($x=0; $x<sizeof($contents[$i]); $x++) {

           if ($contents[$i][$x]['text']) {

             $tableBox_string .= '    <tr><td';

             if ($contents[$i][$x]['align'] != '') $tableBox_string .= ' align="' . $contents[$i][$x]['align'] . '"';

             if ($contents[$i][$x]['params']) {

               $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $contents[$i][$x]['params'];

             } elseif ($this->table_data_parameters != '') {

               $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $this->table_data_parameters;

             }

             $tableBox_string .= '>';

             if ($contents[$i][$x]['form']) $tableBox_string .= $contents[$i][$x]['form'];

             $tableBox_string .= $contents[$i][$x]['text'];

             if ($contents[$i][$x]['form']) $tableBox_string .= '</form>';

             $tableBox_string .= '</td></tr>' . "n";

           }

         }

       } else {

         $tableBox_string .= '    <tr><td';

         if ($contents[$i]['align'] != '') $tableBox_string .= ' align="' . $contents[$i]['align'] . '"';

         if ($contents[$i]['params']) {

           $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $contents[$i]['params'];

         } elseif ($this->table_data_parameters != '') {

           $tableBox_string .= ' ' . $this->table_data_parameters;

         }

         $tableBox_string .= '>' . $contents[$i]['text'] . '</td></tr>' . "n";

       }



       $tableBox_string .= '  </table></td>' . "n";

       if ($contents[$i]['form']) $tableBox_string .= '</form>' . "n";

     }



     $tableBox_string .= '</tr></table>' . "n";



     if ($direct_output) echo $tableBox_string;



     return $tableBox_string;

   }

 }

 

i found a snippet of code that'll get rid of the "add to cart button" and displays a "product is out of stock on hold" message as below:

 

 <?php 

if (tep_get_products_stock($products_id) > 0) { ?> 

<?php echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); ?>

<?php } 

else { 

?> 

<em><font color="#ff0000">This item has been sold or put on hold</font></em><br> 

<?php 

//Comment out the line below...the grey image is still clickable if you do not 

//echo tep_image_submit('button_in_cart_grey.gif', 'Cannot add to cart - out of stock')?> 

<?php } ?>

 

anyone have an idea on when a product is sold, it'll replace the price w/ a message that says SOLD OUT?

[arc]

disregard the code i posted above. it was the wrong set of coding.