Sometimes "Compare" and sometimes not?

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Bonjour France,

The other day I was bragging how easy it is to make "Compare" buttons/checkboxes disappear, no I can't get enough of them, it seems...

Strangely, in the same module it works, and then it doesn't.

Once loading a main category (= 1st under "product category"), I do get compare buttons/checkboxes:

Hi,

Do you have edited the view "product / listing" ?

Thanks to give us the screenshots of your menu / module configuration and tell us in details when it doesn't work in order to reproduce the problem on our end.

Thanks for checking back, Xavier.

From your response I can tell it should work, that's good news to start with. Now let's see where I screwed? Thanks in advance for hanging in with me on the subject.

First you must know that, to exclude the possibility of my customization causing it, as usual in such cases I set HikaShop back to 'out of the box' by removing all folders in my_template/html/com_hikashop, as well as replacing relevant modified helpers or classes files with their originals. Sorry, I should have maybe mentioned this. Anyway, always taking those steps first to cause you as little work as possible

However, no Compares also without customizations.


Let me show you the menu/module configs and try to explain:

Under 'product category' I need 3 levels deep of product categories. So, on first level there are 4 what I call 'main categories', then each has a 2nd level of sub-categories, and some of those have then a 3rd level of sub-sub-categories.
Comparing is interesting really only on 2nd and 3rd level; which is where it doesn't work, unfortunately.

Just FYI, there's only one menu calling all products across all main categories (and no comparing wanted/needed), for the rest I'm staying within the main categories, so that a limitation to 2 levels is not a problem, and we here can focus on one of my main categories (named "Audio") - the other 3 are set up identically except for the associated category they're pulling from.

"Audio" has 14 categories under it, and there are up to 4 categories under some of those.

Please see attached a screenshot of the menu settings incl the associated module.

This menu produces correctly
(a) a menu/list of all (sub-)categories on 2 levels under my main category "Audio", and
(b) all products from all (sub-)categories under "Audio",
(c) with Compare

As soon as I click on any of the (sub-)category links, no matter which level, I'm getting
(a) eventually the correct menu/list of sub-categories - provided there are any, and
(b) the correct products in these sub-categories only,
but - incorrectly - no Compare

So, the pattern is: Compare = yes on top category level, Compare = no on lower category levels.

Again, any customization removed, no CSS hiding Compare.

How in the world did I screw this up?

Hi Xavier,

Got a chance to look into this? Any more info needed?

Guess I can't wait to find out where and how I screwed in this case...

Thanks again.

Hi,

For testing purpose, can you try to edit the view "product / listing_img_title" and remove/comment the code

JRequest::getVar('hikashop_front_end_main',0) &&

Hello Xavier,

So I turned this

<?php
if(JRequest::getVar('hikashop_front_end_main',0) && JRequest::getVar('task')=='listing' && $this->params->get('show_compare')) { ?>

<?php
if(JRequest::getVar('task')=='listing' && $this->params->get('show_compare')) { ?>

Hi,

Again, to test, can you try to put the following code just before the if condition:

 $this->params->set('show_compare','1');

Ok, here we go:

With this code version

<?php
$this->params->set('show_compare','1');
if(JRequest::getVar('hikashop_front_end_main',0) && JRequest::getVar('task')=='listing' && $this->params->get('show_compare')) { ?>

<?php
$this->params->set('show_compare','1');
if(JRequest::getVar('task')=='listing' && $this->params->get('show_compare')) { ?>

Hello Xavier,

I just finished updating to 2.3.1. Sorry to say that Compare still does not work for (sub)subcategories.

Now what? Hope you haven't given up...

Thanks Nicolas. We seem to be out of polarity somehow: you don't have that same problem and can't imagine how the code causes it, and I do have the problem and can't imagine how I caused it. Again, it persists even without all customisation. My menu structure might be a bit "around the corner", but it shouldn't confuse the PHP code, no?

As I wouldn't have a problem with Compare everywhere (could hide it via CSS where I don't want it), I tried the "true" way. Promptly, I do have the screen full of Compares, also where it didn't show before, but in the formerly problematic modules one problem still persists: when checking Compare boxes, the 'compare zone' with the button triggering the comparison view will not show. Duh?!

So, now I'm turning Compare off. Once on the hosting server, you'll be able to x-ray the site top to bottom. and even if we wouldn't get to work immediately, since it's a Market site it won't have thousands of product on day #1, so that'll be okay, too.

Done that, Nicolas. Same problem = no 'compare zone' = no compare button.

Whatever the culprit is, no matter what I do in listing_img_title fixes it, so I guess it's not that view causing it.

For the record, in my listing-img_title I don't have that part "hikashop_level(2) &&"...

Hi,

But yes, an access to the website will be great to see that more in depth.

Hi Guys,

Just for the record, "Compare" works perfectly fine now. Not sure why, or why it didn't before, but latest since 2.3.4 the mystery has solved itself.

By the way, big thanks for 2.3.4! I'm not that long on board yet, but for me 2.3.4 was the most significant update, bringing much good stuff and getting rid of what needed to be resolved. Brilliant!

Keep up the good work!