Removing manufacturer

[doyaski]

Since my customer provides a service rather than a product, is it possible to completely remove any reference to Maunfacturer? In particular, I'd like to remove the manufacturer option on the advanced search page. Deleting the lines of code that define that field and search results didn't work....the drop down box is still there with ENTRY_MANUFACTURERS as the option name and TEXT_ALL_MANUFACTURERS as the first choice in the drop down box. (Not to mention all those default maunfacturers like Canon and Fox are still there in spite of having removed them from categories/products).

Does anyone have any suggestions how to get rid of this form field? Thanks!

[tastylowcarb]

In /catalog/includes/column_left.php, comments out the following:

// if ((USE_CACHE == 'true') && empty($SID)) {
// echo tep_cache_manufacturers_box();
// } else {
// include(DIR_WS_BOXES . 'manufacturers.php');
// }

Seems to work. I'm not positive what the USE_CACHE and empty SID comparison is for, but haven't seen any negatives (yet).

Someone please comment if the above causes some sort of issue(s).

Thanks!

[u2web]

That only removes Manufacturer Box from column_left,
but has no impact on Advanced Search.

Anyone know how to hide/or remove Manufacturer's dropdown from the Advanced Search page?

Thanks,
Eric

[WebMistress]

In the advanced_search.php in the main catalog, remove the entire <tr>-</tr> with the Manufacturers info in it.

About line 199 or so.

At least thats what I did

Make sure you delete the entire row, and leave the <tr> tags around it intact.

Hope you get it!

or in this case of late date, already GOT it