Picture above the product list

[fsgfsg]

Hi!
How can I add a picture (text or slideshow) on the top of the pages with the products list, in the VM frontend, but to be visible only to a shoppers group?

I found a way to add these, so that everyone can see it. But how can it be be visible only to a shoppers group?
Thank you!

[mowlman]

I have special shopper groups that I want to display a special message to once they log in

I use Advanced Module Mananager....http://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/advancedmodulemanager
to control what modules and when they should be displayed.



Then within the Custom PHP option I entered a check for my special shopper groups:

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$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$user = JFactory::getUser();
$user1 = ($user->get(id));
$query = 'SELECT virtuemart_shoppergroup_id FROM #__virtuemart_vmuser_shoppergroups WHERE virtuemart_user_id ='. $user1 ;
$db->setQuery($query, 0, 10);
$Logged_in_shopper_grp_id = $db->loadResult();
if ( $Logged_in_shopper_grp_id == 4 ) { /* Contractor 1 */     return true;}
elseif ( $Logged_in_shopper_grp_id == 5 ) { /* Contractor 2 */ return true;}
elseif ( $Logged_in_shopper_grp_id == 7 ) { /* Contractor 3 */ return true;}
else return false; /* Do NOT display this module */



For the way I have it coded, you will need to know the shopper group id from the table.  You can log into Cpanel and use myPHPAdmin to view and look at virtuemart_shoppergroups table

[fsgfsg]

Thank you so much for this information!!!
I also would like to have a "message" that stays on top of the page of each product category.
Because in each category it would be different.

[GJC Web Design]

category description?

[fsgfsg]

GJC you mean that the category description can be visible if I want to a specific shoppers group?

[GJC Web Design]

surround the cat desc in the category template in the same if code as mowlman supplied (although there must be a shoppers group model somewhere to use)
if the shopper group is correct -> display

[fsgfsg]

thank you GJC!