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[Knickershack]

Hi All
I have extra fields working a treat in my Products & Featured Products 4.1.x store however we are in the process of now upgrading to 4.3.0.

For some reason the same technique used to get it working in 4.1 doesnt work in 4.3 can anyone help please

Thank you everyone

[cflsystems]

The hack for this for 4.1.x was not needed for 4.2.x as QT included them by default. I assume extra fields are in 4.3.x by default as well. You may need to change the way you call them

[Knickershack]

Yes i would have thought the same however i cant get it working at all.
Ive tried the calls to the extra fields all sorts of ways but they dont appear to show.

[cflsystems]

Are the extra fileds you are trying to show active?

[Knickershack]

Hi
Yes they are active on the product just cant get them to display in products, strange

[cflsystems]

Yes the code for the extra fields in 4.3 as well so no need to hack it (it is in include/search.php). Try the debug window and see how extra fields are shown there - as separate array or part of the products array (I would assume is part of the products array for each product). It shold be
$product.extra_field[0].field_value
for values when [0] is the extra field id or you can loop the array

[Knickershack]

Thanks Again .
Yes it shows correctly in the debug console ...

1 => Array (7)
      fieldid => "2"
      provider => "user"
      field => "overlay"
      value => "hot"
      active => "Y"
      orderby => "2"
      service_name => "SERVICE_NAME02"

however {$product.extra_field[2].field_value} produces nothing LOL, very strange

[cflsystems]

There is no field_value in this array (if this is the whole array) - use value instead
{$product.extra_field[2].value}

[Knickershack]

still blank http://www.discountlingeriedirect.co.uk/Baby-Dolls/

note the ***** above the image corresponding code in products_list.tpl

*****{$product.extra_field[2].value}

and the >>>>>> below the image corresponding code in products.tpl

>>>>>>{$product.extra_field[2].value}

[TheWrongGrape]

Was this ever resolved? I've been going through tons of threads and following various different instructions and can't get extra fields to show up on my products_list.tpl in 4.3.1.

EDIT: I finally got it working. No modifications to any php files are necessary. My problem was that my Extra Fields were not checked off for "Show" and therefore not available as Product Search Options. I checked off the "Show" box and then made them available as search options under General Settings > Product Search Options.

This made my extra fields, which I mainly use for if/then statements, visible on my Product Details which I did not want. This was easy enough to hide by editing product.tpl in the Extra Fields skin folder.

Code used on products_list.tpl is {$product.extra_fields[0].field_value}