As an artist or a business offering customized products, you may have a large collection of completed projects that you would like to showcase, but not offer for sale. This recipe shows you how to set up a category that can be used for showcasing product images like an exhibition. All features of osCommerce, like search and display in new products, remain as they were, only your showroom will show no prices and offer no cart button.
The following screenshot shows the Showroom category set up for this purpose, holding the category Hardware. A second category, For Sale, was created as top category for Software and DVD Movies:
Note how prices show in all areas that feature products from the For Sale category, while they are hidden for the Showroom.
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Chef's suggestion:
When combining a showroom with a shopping cart website, separating the top categories into their own boxes, as discussed inChapter 2 (Create...