Fix: Adding this to your theme’s (or child-theme’s) functions.php removes the page and the menu link:

function nuke_menu_items(){
remove_menu_page( 'link-manager.php');
//remove_menu_page( 'upload.php'); //remove other items etc etc
}
add_action('admin_menu', 'nuke_menu_items', 999 );

<?php if(shopp('category','hascategories')): ?>
  <?php while(shopp('category','subcategories')): ?>
    //display stuff
  <?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

…displays all subcast AND their subcats.

Fix: I decided to add a new tag, called shopp(‘subcategory’, ‘depth’) that would return the category depth. That way in the loop above this would show only immediate children:

<?php if(shopp('category','hascategories')): ?>
  <?php while(shopp('category','subcategories')):
    $depth = shopp('subcategory', 'depth', 'return=true');
    if($depth!=0):
      continue;
    endif; ?>
   //else display stuff
<?php endwhile; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Adding the new tag: Open the theme’s functions.php file and add this:

add_filter('shopp_tag_category_depth','return_cat_depth',10, 3);
add_filter('shopp_tag_subcategory_depth','return_cat_depth',10, 3);
function return_cat_depth($result, $options, $Category) {return $Category->depth;}

…once that’s added, shopp(‘subcategory’, ‘depth’) can be used anywhere in the Shopp templates.

Note: In Shopp 1.2 the hook is created differently. Thanks to Jon Davies for pointing out that the hook would now be shopp_themeapi_{object name}_{property} and defined in defined in shopp/api/theme.php.

<?php while(shopp('category','subcategories')): ?>
    <?php shopp('subcategory','name'); ?> (<?php shopp('subcategory','total'); ?>)
<?php endwhile; ?>

Fix: For the products to be countable, the ‘hasproducts‘ tag has to be called with the ‘load’ option like so:

<?php while(shopp('category','subcategories')): ?>
    <?php if(shopp('subcategory','hasproducts','load=prices,images')): ?>
        <?php shopp('subcategory','name'); ?> (<?php shopp('subcategory','total'); ?>)
    <?php endif; ?>
<?php endwhile; ?>

Note: The docs refer to ‘category’ tags. Each category tag has an ideantical subcategory tag. For example and both work when used in the correct context.

<ul class="variations">
  <?php shopp('product', 'variations', 'mode=multiple&label=true&defaults=Select an option&before_menu=<li>&after_menu=</li>'); ?>
</ul>

And this outputs a list that shows options as “Option Label (price)”.

Fix: The code above can be replaced with this code to manually create the same thing, giving complete control over output:

<ul class="variations">
    <li>
    <label for="options-1">Quantity</label>
    <select name="products[<?php shopp('product', 'id'); ?>][options][]" class="category-catalog product<?php shopp('product', 'id'); ?> options" id="options-1">
    <option value="">Select an option</option>
    <?php
        $i=1;
        while (shopp('product', 'variations')): ?>
        <option value="<?php echo $i;$i++; ?>"><?php shopp('product', 'variation', 'label'); ?></option>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    </select>
    </li>
</ul>

The $i;$i++ was a bit of a work-around as I couldn’t get it to work with variation ID, so if you know a better way, please tell us below!

Fix: There is however a breadcrumb template tag that stores the category name that a user us currently viewing, so that if they then click on a product, the hierarchical parent category can be displayed in the breadcrumb.

This functionality can be used in a new custom tag. Jon Davis the lead developer of Shopp helped me a lot today as I was barking up the wrong tree going about it the wrong way.

Add this to your theme’s functions.php:

add_filter('shopp_tag_catalog_lastcat','get_last_cat');
function get_last_cat ($result,$options,$Object) {
    $Storefront = ShoppStorefront();
    if (false === $Storefront) return false;
    $category = $Storefront->breadcrumb;
    return $category;
}

Then anywhere in your Shopp templates you can do this to return the category part of the current breadcrumb e.g “Smalls” in Home > Smalls > Purple Pants :

<?php
//echo it out straight away..
shopp('catalog','lastcat');
 
// return it for use..
$lastcat = shopp('catalog','lastcat','return=true');
?>

Hope that helps someone, props go to JD for getting it working!

Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 111 of 118 bytes in /home/maxwell4/public_html/main/wp-content/plugins/shopp/core/model/Settings.php on line 228

…she had done a ‘find and replace’ in a SQL DB dump to change her domain name, boogered it up accidentally, and needed an explanation. The answer I gave applies any time that error occurs in PHP, so i thought it was worth posting here!

Reason: Arrays are often serialized so that they can be stored in a database text field. If you change the data within a serialized array, without changing the character count, you will get the error above.

For example, try this:

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<?php
$thing = array('one','two');
echo serialize($thing);
?>

This will echo out the following: a:2:{i:0;s:3:”one”;i:1;s:3:”two”;}
Now… if you stored that in a database, you could then retrieve it later and unserialize() it to get your array back. wohoo!

In that serialized data, s:3:”one” means that the first element in the array is a string, and that it’s 3 characters long. Now.. if you manually changed “one” to “otherone” like this a:2:{i:0;s:3:”otherone”;i:1;s:3:”two”;} then when you ran it through unserialize() to retrieve your array, you would get the error were talking about.

Fix: To correct this you would need to update the string length also like so: a:2:{i:0;s:8:”otherone”;i:1;s:3:”two”;} because “otherone” is actually 8 characters long. See? Good!

Any questions, please leave a message below.

Fix: There is a setting in Filezilla called ‘Force showing hidden files’ that does exactly that. To activate that, go to the ‘Server’ menu item and select it. Like this:

Force show hidden files in Filezilla

When you click that, you should be shown a warning/dialogue box about why it needs to be done. Interesting what they say about ‘broken’ servers!

Fix: Turns out PHP flags can be called from .htaccess file. So assuming you are using Unix type hosting (or another server that can interpret distributed configuration files), you can add this to your .htaccess file to set the timezone:

php_value date.timezone Europe/London

Save that, upload it, and if you then look at the output of phpinfo() (create a php file with this in and upload it), you should see:

The Local Value should show what you set in the .htaccess file

Fix: After chatting to some of the support Mods on IRC (thanks @TheWebBaker and @umargl0bal, it seemed I might need to reset the category query (category docs- see ‘reset’ option) after calling ‘Related Products‘, but this didn’t work. I turns out (sort of obviously in hindsight) that the product query needed to be reset instead (product docs – see ‘reset’ option). Here’s some working code inside product.php:

<?php shopp('catalog', 'related-products'); ?>
<?php shopp('catalog', 'product', 'reset=1'); ?>

That code can be placed anywhere in the product template but it makes sense to put it at the beginning or end of the product listing.

Tips:

• If you want to show random products you can use the ‘order=random’ option in the ‘related-products’ tab (see below for an example).
• If you want to limit the number of related products shown, use the ‘show=#’ option also (see below for example).

<?php shopp('catalog', 'related-products','show=3&order=random'); ?>

• The related items will be rendered using the category.php template. If you want to create a custom template JUST for related items (you really do) then copy category.php as category-related.php and customise that. This new template file will be called to render the related products.

Any Questions? Try me, or IRC or the Shopp Support site

Fix: Thankfully the Google Chrome.app can be launched with the –incognito switch to do just that. The terminal command to do this, assuming the browser is sitting in /Applications/ is this:

open -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args --incognito

Note: –args has to be passed to satisfy the ‘open’ command’s arguments first.

Launching it from a shortcut: If you want to create a shortcut to do this, open AppleScript Editor and enter the following:

tell application "Terminal"
	activate
	do script "open -a /Applications/Google\\ Chrome.app --args --incognito;"
	delay 1
	quit
end tell

Note: The space in the Google Chrome.app name must be double-escaped with two backslashes like that to work. Also, without the delay I found that the script exits too quickly or something like that, and it doesn’t work.

Save the above script as an Application, and call it something like ‘Incognito’. Running this app will launch Terminal, Chrome Incognito, then exit Terminal. Bingo!

Giving your Incognito app an Icon: I’ve added the app to my Dock, and given it a special icon (see below for a downloadable PNG icon). To do this:

• Open the image you want to use as the icon – it should be a 512×512 24bit PNG if possible – and copy the image to the clipboard. If you are using Preview to view the image, do cmd+a to select all, then cmd+c to copy it… this works for most other graphics packages also.
• Locate the app you created above in Finder, then press cmd+i to bring up the info window (alternatively right-click the app then select ‘get info’).
• In the resulting pop-up, click on the icon at the top to highlight it like so (notice the blue halo around it):
  
• Then use cmd+v to paste the new icon from the clopboard into the icon area and it should look like this:
  
• Close the info window, and it’s done. You should now have a nice looking shortcut that opens Chrome Incognito with one or two clicks!

Feel free to use this icon. It’s just the standard one with some ‘colour replace’ work to make it blue. You could paste some tacky sun glasses over it if you wished