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Joomla Virtuemart – Ultimate Dynamic Images Hack for Categories Images


This is the only hack you need to have for the category images. This hack will take care of the image while upload or do it dynamically from the frontend, putting a settings on the backend. Since this is an ultimate hack, it construct with several files and line of code to complete this hack: so please stay close attention.

Files we are going to work with

  • administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/imageTools.class.php
  • administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_config.php
  • administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_product_category.php
  • administrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages/admin/english.php
  • administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/admin.show_cfg.php
  • components/com_virtuemart/themes/default/templates/common/categoryChildlist.tpl.php

What this hack does

  • Extra Admin Panel for Category images Controlling
  • Configurable Dynamic Category Image (Seperate from original dynamic thumbnail)
  • Configurable Full Category Image resize upon upload
  • One simple click to enable dynamic category thumb
  • Dynamic Category Full Image resize upon upload

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Joomla Virtuemart – Disable The Session Cache on get_discount Hack


Several of our client complaint that Virtuemart are not displaying the discount price instantly, that cause them the problem, when they speak to there customer. People are not seeing the pricing correctly. We know that this is not a bug in virutemart but rather a extra add-on that the development team had added. But what if the client joomla’s session lifetime is setup to be 1500 minutes, then the price will never be updated. Trusted me, this happen a lot. So we have disable the session cache on the get_discount on virtuemart.
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Joomla Virtuemart – Full Product Image Auto Resize Dynamically – Mod.(Hacks)

Today my client is looking for a possibility to resize the full product image dynamically and give it maximal dimensions 600×600 during uploading. Not resize the image afterwards in the shop_product_details.php or the flypage.php. So we have a little search on this and found a solution to this, and would love to share it to the community with it.
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Joomla Virtuemart – Show Discounted Price to Registered User Only – Mod.(Hacks)

This tutorial is to teach you how to hack the price.tpl.php layout for Virtuemart. Today, one of my client ask us if it is possible to hide the discount price for unregistered user, only show the discounted price to the registered user. As I remember from the template file there’s a file called price.tpl.php, so it is a GO for us to tell the client right away it is doable.
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