Easy way to hide prices when not logged in?

[MgmtSpec]

Hi,

Looking for a way to hide pricing UNLESS the registered user logs in.

[mjbrunelle]

We display two prices, if the customer is registered we pull their discount from the cookie, and display their discounted price as well as the list price. You output the price information only if the customer is registered.

First In your normal javascript login script provided by SS, you have the variable "signed_in", which is read from the cookie. You will need to move this variable definition outside of the function so it is a global variable. This will make this information available when you are producing the product table.

Second you will have to set up a javascript routine to add the "PRICE" column to the output of the product table.

Change the login script to make the signed_in variable global.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">

var signed_in= -1;

function DisplayLogName(name) {
var cookies=document.cookie;
var start = cookies.indexOf(name + "=");
var name = "";
var start1;
var end1;
var tmp;
var signed_in = -1; {remove this line}

Then use this script:

function displayPrice( cellType, workPrice )
{
if (signedIn != -1)
{
if (cellType = "header") { document.writeln("<th class='productHeader'>PRICE</th>"); }
if (cellType = "product") { document.writeln("<td class='productPrice'>workPrice</td>"); }
}
}

</script>

In the Page Template do something like this:

<tr>
<th class="productHeader">PART NO</th>
<th class="productHeader">SIZE</th>
<th class="productHeader">PACK</th>
<th class="productHeader">SELECT</th>
<th class="productHeader">QUANTITY</th>
<script language="javascript">displayPrice('header',' ');</script>
</tr>

In the Product Template do something like this:

<td> -- other product out put variables --</td>
<script language="javascript">displayPrice('product','[-- PRODUCT.Price --]');</script>

You call the routine twice, if the customer is registered it adds the column header "PRICE" and the column price data.

MarkB

[MgmtSpec]

Looks like what I need - I'll give it a try!

[MgmtSpec]

What do you do about the "Add to Cart" button/link? That would also need to be hidden. Also, what about internal "Search Results"? Wouldn't that template also need to hide price?

[Jim]

You could probably do the same thing on the product template used for search.

Note however that since the pages are static the info isn't being pulled in real-time. It will still be on the html page but just hidden when someone isn't logged in. If they viewed the pages source they could probably still see the prices.