remove the "add to wishlist"

[lwilliams114]

I really would like to remove the 'add to wishlist' that is displayed when someone looks at a product. Please help me with how to remove that display.
Thank you,

[met00]

You have about 10 topics in which you have asked how to fine tune your store. I know that I have provided a number of answers, and also explained HOW to figure them out (as this is not a free code modification service, but an educational one).

So, why don't you start this time by telling me what you have tried to determine how to do this and I'll be more than happy to tell you if you are on the right path. What files have you looked at? What directories have you been looking in? What do you think you have to do to make the changes you need and why do you think they haven't worked?

Your other option is to hire me or someone like me out and we will do the work for you. Unless you can start to show me that you are taking ownership for doing the legwork on figuring out what needs to be done and doing it, I'm done since I am not "teaching" you how to do it, but you are getting services that I normally charge $250/hr for for free.

[michael_s]

Just edit the product_info.tpl.php file and remove the wishlist bit.

[lwilliams114]

Met00 I would be happy to hire you and would have been happy to hire you or somebody in the first place. I even placed an ad when I was doing oscommerce first for some help and the admin chewed me out and told me that this wasn't the place to hire someone for help. Now that's off my 58 year old chest let me explain to you what I have done so far and you can choose to continue to help me If you want. I thought this was a place to get help and didn't know there was a limit but you can bet in the future I probably won't be posting questions on this board.
I have gone into the Admin section and disabled the 'add to wish list'. I figured that should be all there was to it.

[lwilliams114]

Thanks Michael_s..

[met00]

Here Michael told you how to locate stuff...
Change Items on Main Page

Here I told you how to locate stuff...
Remove Prices From Front Page?

In this case you wanted to change something that ONLY showed up in the products detail page...

So the best place to start is to look at the structure of the system and you would see that the products detail page is called "product_info.php" Since this is a template system that means that you would want to start your search in product_info.tpl.php in your template content directory.

What files have you looked at? What directories have you been looking in? What do you think you have to do to make the changes you need and why do you think they haven't worked?

Anyone can ask a question. There is no limit. But after all the questions you have asked that are resolvable by just understanding how osCMAX works and looking in the obvious places, this one was "super simple" because the solution (where to look) was in the address bar. And if you went to the template file and searched for wishlist, the solution would jump out to you in about 30 seconds.

Like my post on changing text... text lives in a limited number of areas in osCMAX. If you understand that, then you reduce your time to locate and "fix" it to your liking.

Sorry if I came off sounding rude, but your question came off sounding like "I haven't even done basic research on this, so could someone give me the answer." If Michael and I had not already answered questions like that by providing directions into how to do the basic research BEFORE asking a question here, I would have answered it like Michael did.

While we are all here to help one another and learn from one another, we aren't a free "customer support for osCMAX" where you don't have to do any of your own legwork.

Feel free to continue posting here, but my future help to you will be predicated on you showing that you're making attempts to learn oSCMAX and how it works rather than running here first You have been told to use tools (from Michael) and shown how to look for things from me. By now you should have a minimal understanding of how templates work, what's in the includes and how language files work. In addition you should have a fairly good size clue that "just doing something in the admin" won't always work the way you thought and that if it doesn't, the next place to look is the code (and you should have some idea where to look as well). While every newbie goes through a learning cycle, by this point your questions should be...

"I tried to do THIS, but it didn't work. I looked HERE and THERE and was not able to see what files controlled THIS. There was a reference to THIS in the comments in the THATFILE.php in includes/functions, but there was no code that seemed to have any affect on THIS when it displays on THAT.php page in the store."

That type of question shows that you had a problem, look in the places of the usual suspects and didn't get an answer to it, and need help. You did some legwork and got stuck (it happens to all of us). I'll always be happy to help when I see problems presented that way.

[michael_s]

I even placed an ad when I was doing oscommerce first for some help and the admin chewed me out and told me that this wasn't the place to hire someone for help.

If you want to place an advertisement, you have to pay to do so, just like all the other advertisers on this site. We have specific forums for commercial requests, and if you do not want to pay the minimal fee, you cannot advertise.

You were not chewed out about it, you were politely informed of the forum rules on advertising of any kind, including work for hire. If there is money involved, you have to use the Pay to Post forums.

Those of us who support this project understand that there are constant newcomers who do not understand the basics, so we strive to provide tools to help you find your own answers, since it is too time consuming to answer the same simple questions 1000 times a month. You need to meet us halfway, and start using the tools and hints we have provided to you.

Get a text editor with a 'search across files' feature and start using it to find the stuff you are looking for.

You have all the source code sitting right in front of you, feel free to explore and poke around at your leisure. Start looking for things on your own. Start trying to understand the structure of things, even if you don't understand the actual code.

Human beings are excellent and recognizing patterns, and given a few days of focused attention, you will start to see what those patterns are in osCMax.

As an aside, I think a "How to find stuff in osCMax" might be a worthwhile tutorial for me to start writing.

[met00]

As an aside, I think a "How to find stuff in osCMax" might be a worthwhile tutorial for me to start writing.

I'll be more than happy to help out in this effort.

[my past effort is: Reviews OnLine: CGI Developer's Resource: Web programming in Tcl and Perl (I wrote everything except the perl code... I loath perl) ]