Hi miwadesign,

There are a few basic setup things that you need to have before this will work for you.

1 - you need to make sure that the modules you want to control don't appear on the page until MetaMod assigns them. Therefore you usually need to disable them in some way, or assign them to a module position that doesn't appear on your page.

So in your case, if they are currently in position "sidebar-2", then instead put them all into "sidebar-2-hidden". That way you stop them from appearing (yet!).

2 - in the position where you want them to eventually appear (sidebar-2), place the MetaMod. In the MetaMod, use the following PHP code:

$vm = JomGenius("virtuemart"); // need this at the start of every rule
if ( ! $vm->check("pagetype starts with checkout, cart") ) return "sidebar-2-hidden";


Note that there are double quotes around the name of the module position. That's important.

The MetaMod has to be published, assigned to ALL pages (or at least a subset of menu items that includes the pages you want it to show on), and assigned to the module position that you want the target modules to be displayed in.

So what happens now is that when Joomla goes to display the sidebar-2 position, it finds ONLY the MetaMod there. The MetaMod PHP executes and identifies whether the current page is a VM checkout or cart page, or something else. If it's something else, then all the modules from the position "sidebar-2-hidden" are placed inside the MetaMod.

In this way, the modules appear on most pages, but disappear on cart and checkout pages.

Hope that helps,
Stephen