Online Tips for Web Developer/Designer

My client would like to enable his consumers to view the prices upon login, and also be able to send inquiries to him directly from the product page. Since Virtuemart only allow you to “Call for Pricing” redirect to an product inquiry form, this lacks of user friendliness upon user. So I would like to add a login link right next to “Call for pricing”. I would also like to rename the “Call for pricing” to Inquiry. It should look something like the above image.

Here’s how you accomplished this.
2 files you will need to alter to get this done.

1. price.tpl.php – Located at your joomla root folder
   \components\com_virtuemart\themes\ja-zeolite\templates\common\price.tpl.php
2. english.php – Located at your joomla administrator folder
   \administrator\components\com_virtuemart\languages\common\english.php

Open your english.php file.
locate this code

'PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_CALL' => 'Call for Pricing',

and change to this>

'PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_CALL' => 'Product Inquiry',
'PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_LOGIN' => 'Login for Pricing',

Open your price.tpl.php file and make the following changes
locate this code

$link = $sess->url( $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?page=shop.ask&product_id='.$product_id.'&subject='. urlencode( $VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_CALL').": $product_name") );
	echo vmCommonHTML::hyperLink( $link, $VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_CALL') );

below this code add the following>

	echo " | ";
	$link =$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?option=com_user&view=login&product_id='.$product_id;
	echo vmCommonHTML::hyperLink( $link, $VM_LANG->_('PHPSHOP_PRODUCT_LOGIN') );

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