I am using VirtueMart2 with Joomla 2.5. I would like to remove the search box from the top of the product pages. Is this possible? Could this be accomplished by removing the mod_virtuemart_search/tmpl/default.php file or will I mess something up royally if I do this?
You must be new to Joomla? Just unpublish the module in Joomla's module manager.
Yes, I am new to Joomla. I usually code my own sites, but a client has and existing Joomla site that he wants improved so I am teaching myself Joomla. Thank you for your quick response--when I first read it I said "DUH", but unfortunately, that did not fix my problem. I unpublished the module, I disabled the plug-in and the search box was still at the top of my page. It's very frustrating for me when I can see the section I want to remove using firebug, but I don't have access to the actual code. I solved the problem by finding the CSS that pertained to the divs in question and just added display:none and the search section disappeared.
Are you sure that was the VM search module? Joomla has a search module too. So (especially in a commercial template) you could have two, or even more search modules.
I'm absolutely positive. I unpublished "VM-Search in Shop" in module manager, and disabled "VM-Search, VirtueMart Product" in the plug-in manager. Once I did this the search function was still at the top of the page.
My Categories are set up with parents and children, for example:
Fireplaces
-Wood Fireplaces
- MFG 1
-MFG 2
-MFG 3
-Gas Fireplaces
- MFG1
-MFG2
-MFG3
When I chose the link for each individual manufacturer I would get a page with all my product thumbnails for that category and the search function was at the top of each of these pages. I don't know if the location where it was showing up makes any difference at all, just wanted to be thorough. I'm just happy I could get rid of it using CSS.