Out of stock image watermark

If stock = 0 a watermark out of stock image appears on top of the orignal image?

Would this be easy to do? Any thoughts?

Already been done: http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... order=DESC

thats a bit of an overkill for what i need... I thought a watermark would be a good idea but to do it myself it may be a bit complicated.

So what i can imagine would be easier is when a product is out of stock on the category page it would replace the star rating with Out Of Stock.

currently you cannot tell if the item is out of stock until you add to cart and then view cart and get the error message, this isn't that good.

You can change the 'add to cart button' to an 'out of stock' button, do a search (google may be better) as there are instructions on how to do it on the forum somewhere.

I use this vqmod file

it changes the "add to cart" button to "out of stock" and is not clickable

thought i'd give an update on what it did to resolve this problem in 1.5.1.3...

for the category page, i inserted this code below into catalog/view/theme/default/template/product/category.tp it replaced the star rating with the out of stock message.

before the line: This changes the star rating to the message out of stock on the category page when stock=0.

Next i added this into the same category page, when stock=0 it replaces the add to cart button with an 'Enquire' button which then links to the contact us page.

Add the code just after this line I made the very similar changes to the product page. I hope this can help someone out.

Sorry being dense here as can't seem to get this working

Im trying to use just the last section to change the out of stock icon to Enquire and link to the comments

Where do I add the code, is it between the <div class="cart"> and <a onclick= etc or at the end of the statement after the /div

either way doesn't seem to work.

This is the code from my file, before the mod

<div class="cart"><a onclick="addToCart('<?php echo $product['product_id']; ?>');" class="button"><span><?php echo $button_cart; ?></span></a></div>

I released a mod for doing this:

http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route ... on_id=4358

It will disable the "Add to Cart" button everywhere within the OpenCart, and you can choose to leave it enabled or not for products that have Pre-Order, 2-3 Days, etc. statuses.