Display Custom Fields only if Values Equal to constant

-- Joomla version -- : 3.6.3

How can i only show/hide a custom field if

custom_field == VALUE ??

Should be a simple thing to do in php, but i cannot get it to work with custom fields. I have several custom fields, but i don't need them displayed for all categories. Additionally, i have a custom field for UNAVAILABLE that should display on some pages instead of out of stock (mainly for new, unreleased products).

Sorry about that. I forgot to enter the version. Version currently installed is 2.6.4

The custom field will be a text field. If the product has the custom field == UNAVAILABLE, i would like to hide the add to cart block and just show the custom field value.

Hi Jerome,

I figured out how to get it done by looking at other "if" statements throughout the view files of hikashop.

I can now hide certain elements for certain products/categories as well as if certain custom fields are equal to certain values.

The original request was to hide certain elements if the custom field (text string) was equal to a certain value. For example, if availability was set to "COMING SOON" and i wanted to hide the "out of stock" string for every case where availability = "COMING SOON" then I would just use:

    <?php if ($this->row->availability == 'COMING SOON') { ?>

       <div style="display:none"> "OUT OF STOCK NOTIFICATION BLOCK"       
  	</div>

    <?php } else{ ?>	

    "DISPLAY OUT OF STOCK NOTIFICATION BLOCK"
      
    <?php } ?>

Also, another easy fix to this problem would be to just set date available range to something in the future, then product will not show add to cart and instead show available on XXX DATE XXX