Modifying VirtueMart

How to remove the VirtueMart Logo from the module shopping cart

1) go to directory: components/com_virtuemart/themes/default/templates/common/minicart.tpl.php
2) delete the code below
<a href="http://virtuemart.net/" target="_blank">
<img src="http://www.blogger.com/%3C?php%20echo%20$mm_action_url%20?%3Ecomponents/com_virtuemart/shop_image/ps_image/menu_logo.gif" alt="VirtueMart" border="0" width="80" /></a>"

Refer to:http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=45737.0


How to delete/remove Add to Cart text if have the button

For the browser page,

Go to: components\com_virtuemart\themes\default\templates\browse\includes\addtocart_form.tpl

at line 17 from

<input type="submit" class="<?php echo $button_cls ?>" value="<?php echo $button_lbl ?&gt" title="<?php echo $button_lbl ?&gt" />

change to

<input type="submit" class="<?php echo $button_cls ?>" value="" title="<?php echo $button_lbl ?&gt" />

For Product detail page

Go to: components\com_virtuemart\themes\default\templates\product_details\includes\addtocart_form.tpl

And do the same as the browser page

How to resolve add to cart button missing on browse page in Virtuemart

Go to: administrator\components\com_virtuemart\html\shop.browser.php

Then delete the red texts in this file

if (USE_AS_CATALOGUE != '1' && $product_price != ""
&& $tpl->get_cfg( 'showAddtocartButtonOnProductList' )
&& !stristr( $product_price, $VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_CALL') )
&& !ps_product::product_has_attributes( $db_browse->f('product_id'), true )) {

$tpl->set( 'i', $i );
$tpl->set( 'product_id', $db_browse->f('product_id') );
$tpl->set( 'product_in_stock', $db_browse->f('product_in_stock') );
$tpl->set( 'ps_product_attribute', $ps_product_attribute );
$products[$i]['form_addtocart'] = $tpl->fetch( 'browse/includes/addtocart_form.tpl.php' );
$products[$i]['has_addtocart'] = true;
}

Change localhost url to IP adderss

Goto: pathways in virtuemart.cfg.php - in /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/

see the lines
define( 'URL', 'localhost/your_directory/' );
define( 'SECUREURL', 'localhost/your_directory/' );

define( 'URL', 'http://172.16.100.199/your_directory/' );
define( 'SECUREURL', 'http://172.16.100.199/your_direcotory/' );

Change texts in Virtuemart,e.g. texts in the pop-up window
Go to: adminsitrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages/common/english.php

and search your message that you would like to modify

Increase the number of related products shown

Go to: administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.product_details.php

and edit from

$q .= "AND FIND_IN_SET(#__{vm}_product.product_id, REPLACE(related_products, '|', ',' )) LIMIT 0, 4";

to

$q .= "AND FIND_IN_SET(#__{vm}_product.product_id, REPLACE(related_products, '|', ',' )) LIMIT 0, 6";

now, your max num of products is 6 shown in the page.

How to remove Add to Cart in the related products module

Go to:/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_product.php

and look for the following line below:

function product_snapshot( $product_sku, $show_price=true, $show_addtocart=true, $show_product_name = true )

change it to

change from

function product_snapshot( $product_sku, $show_price=true, $show_addtocart=true, $show_product_name = true )

Change and customize the related products page

Go to: components\com_virtuemart\themes\default\templates\common\relatedProducts.tpl.php

and modify the code as wanted

or better Go to: components\com_virtuemart\themes\default\templates\common\productsnapshot.tpl

One Font Appearance For All Diverse Web Browsers

This is may a small thing that we as a web developer perhaps overlook it.

If we are building up the English-based website. The following manner of xHTML coding shoude be adopted, otherwise the font appearance may distract from its determined code.

At html tag, we should identify obviously which language is most influential to that certain page. Aside from that, `charset` under tag of Meta may put "utf-8" rather than "ISO-8859-1". This charset has large coverage in terms of language support.

The example is demononstrated as below,

<html lang="en" xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

If we creat a new html file from Dreamweaver, The html tag will just merely show
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">. That does not include lang attribute.

Installing Japanese Sony SonicStage (V) on English Windows

Please visit this link below. I got the idea from it.

http://nanchatte.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/installing-japanese-sony-sonicstage-on-english-windows/

Thanks to the writer