Toggle price on category/view.phtml and product/view.phtml

Question

I need an option to toggle off/on the price (category/view.phtml and product/view.phtml).

Let's say a logged in customer wants to hide the price.

So he ticks a checkbox or anything like that which hides prices on the both mentioned view.phtml

Is there any way to achieve something like that in magento 1.9.3.6 ? Thanks

Answer 1

• Create the button to click
• Whenever the button is clicked. Create and set a session variable that the price will not show like:

Mage::getSingleton(‘core/session’)->setMyValue("nopriceview");

• Have a check in the (category/view.phtml and product/view.phtml) where if the session is active:

if (Mage::getSingleton('core/session')->getNoPriceView())

then add a container around the price and add inline css display none.

For example:

You have the hide price button inside a form.

<form name="priceView" action="" method="post" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="priceCheck" />
</form>

Then you also have PHP code to check if the form has been submitted.

<?php
    if(!(isset($_SESSION["priceView"]))) {
        $_SESSION["priceView"] = "yesPrice";
    }
    if (isset($_POST['priceCheck'])){
        if($_SESSION["priceView"] == "yesPrice") {
            $_SESSION["priceView"] = "noPrice";
        } elseif($_SESSION["priceView"] == "noPrice") {
            $_SESSION["priceView"] = "yesPrice";
        }
    }
?>

I'm using basic PHP but if you need this the Magento way we can do that also.