Removing Categories from Cart and Configure

[ukndoit]

I was given this code and it worked to remove the categories when viewing the products, however, when configuring them, after they add the product, they are there.

 

here is the code:

 

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function(MenuItem $SecondarySidebar)
{
if(!is_null($SecondarySidebar->getChild('Categories'))){
$SecondarySidebar->removeChild('Categories');
}
});

 

I put it in a name: RemoveCats.php

in the /includes/hooks

 

Can you tell me how to remove them from the configuration as well?

 

Thanks,

-Richard

[brian!]

Hi Richard,

 

are you sure you're not looking at a cache issue - because the code looks fine and should work on all pages.

 

in fact, when I quickly tried it on a v7 dev, it worked as it should.

 

[ukndoit]

try it here:

 

https://actuatedmarketing.com/orders/cart.php?gid=56

 

click add to cart...

 

still working on the description to make it look better.

 

May not put one at all, and just build a sales page, then if they want it, put a directly link to the cart, so they don't have to see all the stuff that will be on the sales page, so no need to have it in the description...

 

Anyhow, when it goes to the configure, I see the categories. crazy that it does work for you on your test, but not on mine for me. I cleared my cache and still it is there, so tried it in another browser... but in both of the browsers, I'm logged in. I logged out of Firefox, the browser, I don't hardly use anymore, because it is always lagging... so I use Chrome mostly... but even when I log out of Firefox and clear my cache, still I see the categories.

 

Very odd.

 

-Richard

[brian!]

Hi Richard,

 

still I see the categories... Very odd.

no the categories are there - how weird.

 

I can see that you're using a custom version of "Six" and the order form template, but I don't think it's that.

 

one thought - in your hook, have you remembered to add <?php to the beginning - because if you don't do that, WHMCS will just ignore the hook.

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function(MenuItem $SecondarySidebar)
{
   if(!is_null($SecondarySidebar->getChild('Categories'))){
               $SecondarySidebar->removeChild('Categories');
   }
}); 

[ukndoit]

This is the whole file:

 

<?php

use WHMCS\View\Menu\Item as MenuItem;

add_hook('ClientAreaSecondarySidebar', 1, function(MenuItem $SecondarySidebar)
{
if(!is_null($SecondarySidebar->getChild('Categories'))){
$SecondarySidebar->removeChild('Categories');
}
});

?>

 

It is strange that it is not using the hook. I don't know why.

 

And yes, I'm using a custom theme, Csix, because they told me if I change anything at all, I should create a custom theme first, so updates do not overwrite my changes.

 

So just in case I do make any custom updates to anything, I don't have to redo it all. I have not yet done that, but did make the new custom theme...

 

-Richard

[brian!]

Hi Richard,

 

It is strange that it is not using the hook. I don't know why.

the hook code itself is fine... the problem lies elsewhere.

 

And yes, I'm using a custom theme, Csix, because they told me if I change anything at all, I should create a custom theme first, so updates do not overwrite my changes.

So just in case I do make any custom updates to anything, I don't have to redo it all. I have not yet done that, but did make the new custom theme...

that's fine - and technically correct - but your 'csix' templates and 'six' templates are now different... six looks to be from v7.1+, your 'csix' from an earlier version - so changes that have been introduced by WHMCS, aren't being replicated in your custom template.

 

if it were me, i'd be tempted to upload a clean copy, for your WHMCS version, of 'six', 'standard_cart' and 'premium_comparison'; set the product group to use the clean p_c and see if that makes a difference... there must be something wrong with your template changes for the hook not to work.

 

ultimately, if you can't get to the bottom of this, you may need to edit the orderforms/standard_cart/sidebar_categories.tpl template and add an {if} statement into the beginning of it to remove the Categories sidebar...

 

{foreach $secondarySidebar as $panel}
   {if $panel->getName() neq 'Categories'}

and then add a closing {/if} before the {/foreach} at the end of the file.

 

that should remove the Categories sidebar on all cart pages without the need for the hook.

 

ideally, you shouldn't need to do this, and the hook should work - but once you start using potentially outdated templates, it might be quicker (though not better!) to just tweak the sidebar template.

[ukndoit]

wow. that worked. Awesome!!

 

Thank you much!!!

-Richard