I have shut off the Use stock management setting in main settings.
I have used the "$noshowoutofstock=TRUE;" in the includes
I have made sure that "instock" is not in the productpagelayout in the includes file
I have made sure under admin products, the SELL ITEM is off and the price is "0"

I think I have it all.... is there something that I'm forgetting?

Terry (Redsei)

If you're not using the stock management system then if the product does not have the "sell" checkbox checked in the product admin page then the default message is "Out of Stock". But you can changed that in the language file withxxOutStok...
$xxOutStok="Out of Stock";
Could that help here?

Vince

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Yes that helps..

This only affects a certain amount of product so it may be best to just create another page and have the category redirect to that. I have the price showing as well $00.00. Maybe it's best on the newly created page to display: none the price and the out of stock message... that way I'm not monkeying around with the language file?

Terry (Redsei)

Hi Terry, you can make langaugefile changes update-proof by copying them over to your includes file.
In your store pages, the include lines for the includes.php should come after the include line for the languagefile so that anything in the includes will take precedence.

Thanks,
David

Awesome, did not know that... thanks David

Terry (Redsei)

How would I now create a new version of productdetail that certain products can be sent to? I really don't want to create a separate url for each...

Terry (Redsei)

Would I just say that each product had a specific URL and at the end of the (new) proddetail.php named file I would add "?prod=xxxxxxx"?

Terry (Redsei)

Hi Terry, the product pages automatically link to the proddetail pages. What are you looking to do?
Is it that you need to show something different on the detail pages for just some products?
With a better understanding of what you want to do, I can probably make a recommendation.

Thanks,
David

Yes I need to turn off the price and the out of stock for those products... I basically want to show some product in a catalog way

Terry (Redsei)

Hi Terry, I had posted a trick some time back where you can set a parameter based on a product ID. If it's just a few products, that may work for you.

https://www.ecommercetemplates.com/support/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=100929

However I have used a hack in the past where I just enter some styling in the product description for that item only.
There are many arguments out there as to if this is valid. For a long time it was no, then it was yes, and then no again.
But in my testing it works in all major browsers.
You might want to try it, and check popular browsers. While it may not be considered valid, it works for me.

<style type="text/css">
div.detailprice, div.detailinstock {display: none;}
</style>

Thanks,
David

Hi Terry,
Add a custom css class to the products you don't want the price and out of stock message to display

In the product admin from the quick entry drop down choose custom css class and add 'catalog' without the quotes to the products you want to hide the price and out of stock message

Then add this to your css/style.css file

.catalog .detailprice {display: none;}
.catalog .detailinstock {display: none;}



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Thanks Dave and Phil.

Phil this is so powerful of a feature and it's hidden here....there's no way that this feature should not be part of the product inventory.csv file. Do you think it's worth the post in the suggestion box?

Terry (Redsei)

Phil for the win!
I guess I am a bit rusty in some areas...
I forget that there are individual classes for products now too.

Thanks,
David

Yeah I hear ya...

I think of workarounds and then the feature comes out and it's REDO TIME.



Terry (Redsei)

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there's no way that this feature should not be part of the product inventory.csv file. Do you think it's worth the post in the suggestion box?

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If you download your product inventory CSV file and add the column pCustomCSS and enter your data and upload it, that should do it.



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