Changing 'Free' text when item has no price

I just though I'd share a handy hint. Aside from being able to change the text displayed from 'free' to anything you like, I've just changed mine to

<a href="mailto:email@yoursite.com?subject=Price Enquiry">Email us for pricing</a>

Ahh, I see that is from 1.4.5 onwards and I haven't yet updated our business version site from 1.4.4.

Hmm, this is where I suspect the tweaks are going to start to become a problem...

I assume the code for displaying the contact button is in the product/show view but because we have modified it to include extra bits, our product/show file remains at ver 1.4.3.

Now obviously the responsibility falls back onto me to maintain the site if I wish to make customisations, but do you have anything in mind such as publishing code changes for each revision? Also I was going to read through the change list that is display prior to update but after updating but couldn't find it, is it published anywhere?

Thanks for this - another handy tip!

It's pretty helpful to use a language override to change the default "free" text, so I'll post the steps here in case anyone needs the info.

Back end admin / Extensions / Language Manager / Overrides / New
Set the search box to "constant" and search for "free".
Click on "FREE_PRICE", and then change the text to whatever you like and hit save.
Reload your page in the front end and all should be well.

Quick and clean method of editing certain elements of plugins, components etc. and as it also keeps your original files intact the changes won't be lost during an upgrade.

ps - I'm using Joomla 2.5 so I'm not sure if this will work in earlier versions.

Ramble over and thanks again

This is all great information as it applies specifically to what I need to do. However Nicolas did not identify the specific commercial version that has the feature. I need for all my products to not have prices and to simply have ability to request a quote. It looks like the discussion you had here will handle that. That specific feature is not listed in the product comparisons on the hikashop website. So if you could tell which version to purchase that would be great.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I bought the commercial version and it displays the buttion for contact , but I still have the "FREE" on each product. How to I get rid of that or do I just have to edit that variable?


Thanks,
Wendell

wendell01,

As mentioned multiple times earlier here in the thread, you use a language override. It's a basic Joomla feature, and you'll find the "how-to" here depending on your Joomla version: docs.joomla.org/Language_Overrides_in_Joomla , and even here in the HikaShop documentation: hikashop.com/download/languages.html#modify

Sorry, but I did realize that particular method had been covered, I just wondered if the commercial version had something additional including the form.
Thanks,
Wendell