Help with css and display views

Hi Nicolas,

I've a few questions, please, about the editable css and 'Display - Views' files. There are several things I need to resolve and the main ones are below.

1. All of the products sold on the site I'm building are unique - it's very rare to have more than one of each, so I need to 'hide' the Quantity fields from the cart and checkout pages. I found (by accident) how to hide the 'in stock' quantities from the list and product items, but I can't work out which files require editing in the 'Display - Views' area, and more importantly, what edits to make. I don't want to make changes that will be overwritten by the next Hika upgrade.

2. With your previous advice on using the language file, I've been able to change the Price suffix from 'each' to a prefix of 'Price: '. However, while this is fine for listings and product page, I don't want it to appear in the cart or checkout - it breaks the layout and is redundant because the column is already headed 'Price'. Is there a way to make a second definition in the language file to cover both instances, eg. CART_PRODUCT and CHECKOUT_PRODUCT? Or have I missed something already in place?

Hi badcoder,

1. Go in HikaShop > Display > Content modules, edit the cart module, and check "No" for "Show quantities in the cart".

2. You can edit the view where the text appear, and change the text in "JText::_('THE_TEXT')" by "JText::_('YOUR_TEXT')", and then add YOU_TEXT="Your text" in the translation file.

3. Edit the view "Product / show_default" (or show_reversed / show_tabular, depending on which view you are using)
And place the code:

  <div id="hikashop_product_quantity_main" class="hikashop_product_quantity_main">
    <?php
    $this->row = & $this->element;
    $this->ajax = 'if(hikashopCheckChangeForm(\'item\',\'hikashop_product_form\')){ return hikashopModifyQuantity(\'' . $this->row->product_id . '\',field,1' . $form . ',\'cart\'); } else { return false; }';
    $this->setLayout('quantity');
    echo $this->loadTemplate();
    ?>
  </div>

<span id="hikashop_product_id_main" class="hikashop_product_id_main">

.hikashop_user_registration_page .hikashop_contentpane .key{
	// change the width of the first column
}

.hikashop_user_registration_page .hikashop_contentpane .inputbox{
	//change the width of the fields
}

You can use !important in your css properties to override the other properties. (color: #ffffff !important;)

Thanks for the help Xavier, most of the changes are in place now. I have one problem remaining and a few more questions -

1. Re. my previous query about varying the languages 'price beginning' code, I made a second instance for the product listing and the product view. This worked fine, except that the code for the product cart references the listing layout and shows the price beginning from the listing view instead of the default value used by the checkout file. Checkout cart is fine. Any ideas as to how I can overcome this?

2. Can you suggest the best way to set up the search module with a keyword search and a drop-down pick list that can be used alone or in combination? I preferably would like a stand-alone sidebar module that simply carries those two items. I have set up various custom fields to be searchable following info from another post.

3. Can you tell me how to set custom fields to appear in the product listings. I read in another post that I need to set them to table 'item' which I can't locate - all products entered so far have been set to 'Product' and the custom fields display fine on the product page. I notice that there are other options on your demo site - 'Category', 'Item' and 'Entry'. Are they therefore only available on the Hika business option? Does this mean that if and when I do have the 'item' table option available, I have to enter all the products' custom fields again?

'As you can see, once a custom field is created, you can't change the table where it is located. If you want to do so, you will have to delete it and create a new one.'

Hi Nicolas -

Many thanks for the information, I'll see how I get on with your advice (I didn't choose the username 'badcoder' for no reason!).

Re, item 5 - I'll PM you a link to the page - the message is my replacement text for the standard 'no content' search result. (Sorry for the earlier version - well it is getting late!)

Thanks again,

Mike.