Hide cart module if empty

I would like to request a feature, as touched on in a previous thread.

I would like an option in the cart module options to allow you to hide the cart module if the cart is empty - instead of having the cart module showing with the text "Cart is Empty".

My reasons for this is that the shop is a small part of my site and will probably only appeal to a minority of users. If the user has items in their cart I want it to show in a prominent position in the sidebar of EVERY page to remind them to checkout - however I don't want a pretty much blank module displayed to everyone else (takes up space that could be better used).

Reading through previous posts I think I can hide the content of the module however the module itself will be displayed, therefore the header, container etc will be displayed.

Thanks
Simon

I am also interested in this future feature

Hello,

I am using the advanced module manager to hide my cart when empty, but it still shows ... Any tips?

Thanks.

That did it thank-you. Great work btw!

Hi all,
we have gone 4 Years into the future and unfortunately this solution does not work anymore with my version of hikashop and advance module manager pro. I removed the "cart empty message but that does not fix the problem.
I investigated on the nonumbers site (makers of advance module manager) and there is same question answered as you can read here: www.nonumber.nl/forum/advancedmodulemanager/9152-hide-if-empty
or in short: it does only work if no html output is made from the module - and - it need php strings to get rid of the cart if empty.
Unfortunately there seems to be another html output even if i only remove the "cart empty" message within my language strings as my cart still is shown. Hope there will be any chance to get this done in another way - best would be if the minicart himself would disappear with an option toggle
thanks in advance for coming back to this thread!
regards
carsten

Hi,

Could you give us a link to one of the page with the issue ?
This will help us to see what could be causing this problem.

Sure: you can see it here:
dev.iq-guru.com. Find the module in the menubar position located. And yes - that is not a menu item it is a module just in that position.
Thanks in advance
carsten

Hi,

I was thinking that your module was displayed as a common module, so on a side of the website.
In your case, it seems to be more specific as it is on the menu and displayed on hover.
So not a default Joomla comportment, but displayed via your template or another component and that's why it is not hiding as it should by default.

You should contact the menu extension provider or the template editor, or add some javascript to hide the menu if the content is empty thanks to code like:

if($('.cartmodule div').html() == ''){
	$('.cartmodule').hide();
}

Hi Xavier,
thanks for the possible solution. As it is not possible to get this support from the template provider i now tried to move the cart module to sidebar a position but still have the same result - if the cart is emty and i remove the string within my translation still a block is shown with no content even it should not be there
So i´d like to ask you again for support on this. YOu can check it here (secondd module on the right side):
dev.iq-guru.com/angebote/alle/alle-online-kurse
Thanks in advance
carsten