Hidden Products

Hidden Products is a module developed by Custom Scriptz for Zen Cart where you'll be able to select individual customers that can see and checkout disabled products.

This module is free?

• No, this module is available at our scripts store.

This module is supported by Zen Cart Team?

• No, we support this module.

This module will overwrite any of my files?

• Actually, it does not overwrite, but take place of 5 core files from Zen Cart.

System Requirements

Zen Cart v1.3.8a or newer
ionCube Loaders
PHP 5 or newer
MySQL 5

Features

• Allows your customers (or designers) to see disabled products.

Before Installing / Upgrading

Thought our modules are exhausted tested, we do not guarantee that everything goes smoothly, so please, BACKUP YOUR DATABASE AND FILES before proceed.

Installation Instructions

• Extract the module file that you downloaded from our Customers Area to a temp dir on your computer.
• Inside the extracted dir, you will notice one dir called "uploads".
• If your "admin" directory has a different name, rename the dir "admin" dir that's inside the "uploads" dir to match yours.
• Now, upload all the contents of the dir "uploads" to the root of your store. Don't upload the "uploads" dir, but what's inside of it.
• Now go to Replace Files

Upgrading Instructions

• Follow the installation instructions above.

Replace Files

• Go to "/admin/" and rename the file "customers.php" to "customers-backup.php"
• Go to "/admin/" and rename the file "customers.php.new" to "customers.php"
• Go to "/admin/includes/modules/" and rename the file "category_product_listing.php" to "category_product_listing-backup.php"
• Go to "/admin/includes/modules/" and rename the file "category_product_listing.php.new" to "category_product_listing.php"

• Note: if you have Free Gifts installed, you'll have to merge the shopping cart file below using a comparison tool like WinMerge
• Go to "/includes/classes/" and rename the file "shopping_cart.php" to "shopping_cart-backup.php".
• Go to "/includes/classes/" and rename the file "shopping_cart.php.new" to "shopping_cart.php".

• Note: if your product page is different than "product_info", rename the files accordingly.
• Go to "/includes/modules/pages/product_info/" and rename the file "header_php.php" to "header_php-backup.php".
• Go to "/includes/modules/pages/product_info/" and rename the file "header_php.php.new" to "header_php.php".
• Go to "/includes/modules/pages/product_info/" and rename the file "main_template_vars.php" to "main_template_vars-backup.php".
• Go to "/includes/modules/pages/product_info/" and rename the file "main_template_vars.php.new" to "main_template_vars.php".

• If you changed any of the files mentioned above, you will need a comparison tool like WinMerge to see what's different in both files and merge the differences.

Tutorial

• Go to Customers -> Customers. Search for a customer and change "Can see Hidden Products?" to "Yes".
• Then the customer will be able to checkout the product even if it's disabled.
• To see the link of the product, go to Catalog -> Categories/Products -> You'll notice a yellow "L" icon, right click on it and copy the link, which will be the link to the store and send to the customer.

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