How can I edit the "Sort by" function and remove "Manufacturer"

[ivarlarsen]

When I view the products via categories I would like to remove the current sort methods available which are:"Creation date" , "category" and "manufacturer name"

And have "Sort by most viewed" , "price" and "popularity (most bought)". I have no idea how to do this.

I would like to remove the "manufacturer" tab completely.

Hope you guys can help  thanks in advance

[jenkinhill]

The available sort fields are set in Configuration/Product Order Settings.   http://docs.virtuemart.net/manual/21-configuration-menu/62-configuration.html#product-order-settings

You canh remove manufacturers by editing the div class="orderby-displaynumber" in components/com_virtuemart/views/category/tmpl/default.php and using the edited file as a template override.

[ivarlarsen]

Thanks I managed to change the sort fields just like I wanted them.

I don't think I understand The template override to remove the manufacturer option. What I tried is to comment this out:

<!-- <div class="orderby-displaynumber">
   <div class="width70 floatleft">
      <?php echo $this->orderByList['orderby']; ?>
      <?php echo $this->orderByList['manufacturer']; ?>
   </div>  -->

It didn't work. What am I doing wrong here?

[da8iwr]

Personally, I think this really needs to be an option inside of VM itself. Nobody should be made to hack core files to turn off a title and drop down that many people won't need. I just checked the source and there is no difference between the manufacturer drop down and other drop downs. So you can't even make a CSS "display:none;" to hide it, which would mean you wouldn't need to hack any core files.

Also, there is a spelling mistake for the word "Height" when you turn on "Height" as an order option. It says "Heigth", not sure where to notify this.

[T.A. Garrison, LLC]

jenkinhill
Your advice is usually spot on. However, I made the changes with the override and couldn't get the "Sort" to go away. I even uploaded the changes to the virtuemart folder ( /components/com_virtuemart/views/category/tmpl/default.php ) and that didn't work either. I thought it could be cache, cleared that in the site "and" browser, but still...that little "Sort" won't disappear.

<!-- <div class="orderby-displaynumber">
   <div class="floatleft vm-order-list">
      <?php //echo $this->orderByList['orderby']; ?>
      <?php //echo $this->orderByList['manufacturer']; ?>
   </div>
   <div class="vm-pagination vm-pagination-top">
      <?php //echo $this->vmPagination->getPagesLinks (); ?>
      <span class="vm-page-counter"><?php //echo $this->vmPagination->getPagesCounter (); ?></span>
   </div>
   <div class="floatright display-number"><?php //echo $this->vmPagination->getResultsCounter ();?><br/><?php //echo $this->vmPagination->getLimitBox ($this->category->limit_list_step); ?></div>


   <div class="clear"></div>
</div> --><!-- end of orderby-displaynumber -->

Any other thoughts?

I tried it with and without the <div> tags commented out as well.
Maybe it's just a ghost and will go away soon...

NEVERMIND!
...sigh...
I forgot that I was working in a sub-directory of the site, creating a mirror site that's updated.

I uploaded the echo commented file ( //echo..) and it works great.

Thanks, jenkinhill.