adding to specials and whats new boxes

[Portman 2]

Ok, so I'm playing around with hiding particular products from particular customers...

I have made a variable $hide_product where the value 1 means the product is hidden and 0 means it is visible...

I am trying to modify bm_specials.php and bm_whats_new.php so that if $hide_product = 1 that product does not show up in the box and another is selected...

Im assuming it is these lines of code I need to modify, but for the life of me I can't figure it out 

bm_specials.php

      if ($random_product = tep_random_select("select p.products_id, pd.products_name, p.products_price, p.products_tax_class_id, p.products_image, s.specials_new_products_price from products p, products_description pd, specials s where p.products_status = '1' and p.products_id = s.products_id and pd.products_id = s.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' and s.status = '1' order by s.specials_date_added desc limit " . MAX_RANDOM_SELECT_SPECIALS)) {

bm_whats_new.php

      if ($random_product = tep_random_select("select products_id, products_image, products_tax_class_id, products_price from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status = '1' order by products_date_added desc limit " . MAX_RANDOM_SELECT_NEW)) {

any help would be appreciated 

 

Edited February 21 by Portman

[♥multimixer 325]

If you have a "hide_product" flag in your database, you can include that into the query, in the same way it is done for the products status

where products_status = '1' and hide_product = '0' and ......

 

[Portman 2]

thanks @multimixer I was trying to plug the variable in there rather than the record from the database...

[♥multimixer 325]

How will the system know if the product is hidden or not ?