If an item is deleted from the database is it possible to still display the reviews for it?
Hi Dave,
Yes - that makes sense - i'll have into it for you and post the modifications required to products.php....
Cheers,
David.
Hi Again,
To implement this, look for the following code in products.php (line 72)...
$banner["h2"] .= "(".translate("product not found").")";...and add the following code immediately afterwards:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM `".$config_databaseTablePrefix."reviews` WHERE product_name = '".database_safe($q)."' AND approved <> '0' ORDER BY created";
if (database_querySelect($sql,$rows))
{
$ratings["reviews"] = $rows;
}Finally, you also need to incorporate the ratings HTML module (it won't make any difference to the normal product pages). Look for the following code...
if (isset($product)) require("html/product.php");...and add the following line immediately afterwards:
if (isset($ratings)) require("html/ratings.php");If you want to remove the review form from the page if the product no longer exists, you would need to add an IF case around the form code in html/ratings.php:
<?php if (isset($product)): ?>
<form>
... existing form code...
</form>
<?php endif; ?>That should do the trick...
Cheers,
David.
Perhaps I should elaborate, If I have a URL like this
http://www.mydomain.com/review/Apple-Mac-G5.html
indexed in the search engines for a product than no longer exists in the products table and someone clicks on it then I get the message..
"Price search results for Apple Mac G5(product not found)"
So, as i still hold the reviews for the Apple Mac G5 in the reviews table I should be able to pull those from the table and at least make the page of some use, is that right or is this harder than it sounds?
Thanks
Dave