How To Display A Message When Category Is Empty

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.6

Is it possible to automatically show a message when there aren't any products in a category? Something like "We're sorry, there aren't any products here at the moment, please check back later".

I've tried a few solutions from other (older) posts but none of them worked with this version of HikaShop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks.

Hi,

You can potentially edit the view "product / listing_div" and at the end add:

<?php else{echo "We're sorry, there aren't any products here at the moment, please check back later";} ?>

Hi Xavier,

Thanks for your reply. I've just tried this but when I add the code at the bottom of the file it make the pages lose all formatting and they seem to lose all CSS styling too (see attached screenshots of before and after).

Do you have any other ideas?

Thank you.

Here is the screenshot of how I implemented the code. I put the code at the end of the file as suggested earlier.

Can you replace that line :

<?php else{echo "We're sorry, there aren't any products here at the moment, please check back later"} ?>

<?php else{echo "We're sorry, there aren't any products here at the moment, please check back later";} ?>

Hi, thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately this code brings the same error as before. Is it possible i've put the code in the wrong place? It is right at the end of the listing_div file as seen in my earlier post.

Thanks.

Thank you for your reply, I have the message appearing now, although it is also appearing on the 'categories listing' pages too (see link: www.treasurefindersuk.com/our-products/jewellery-and-gold ) where as we only need it to show on 'product listing' pages.

Is there anything I can do to stop it showing on the 'categories listing' pages?

Hi,

You can potentially use that code instead:

elseif(!in_array(hikashop_getCID('category'),array('2'))){
    echo "We're sorry, there aren't any products here at the moment, please check back later";
}

Thank you very much, this is working perfectly!