Manufacturer name in from of Product name

Mark Orbit · #21 08-05-2009, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carpeperdiem

$product.manufacturer

Doesn't work for me I'm afraid. I tried both these options in post #17. Is bringing in the manufacturer more involved than modifying this bit of code? Thanks.

ADDISON · #22 08-05-2009, 12:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark Orbit

Doesn't work for me I'm afraid. I tried both these options in post #17. Is bringing in the manufacturer more involved than modifying this bit of code? Thanks.

Use post #14. Then you should edit some tpl files. And replace $product.product and $producttitle with your new variable. For the future I will insert an check box in Admin and make some if statements. For example: Do you want Manufacturer name in front of product name?

ADDISON · #23 08-05-2009, 12:55 AM

One more soft question. What is the difference between $product.product and $product.producttitle? Are they the same? Maybe they have same values, using different queries.

Cheers

carpeperdiem · #24 08-05-2009, 03:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark Orbit

Doesn't work for me

$product.manufacturer is a valid variable in product.tpl

cflsystems · #25 08-05-2009, 04:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by am2003

One more soft question. What is the difference between $product.product and $product.producttitle? Are they the same? Maybe they have same values, using different queries.

Cheers

$product.product is the value of product field in products table. In func.product.php we find

Code:

$product["producttitle"] = $product['product'];

which make $product.producttitle same as $product.product
What's the reason? I don't know maybe to make it more obvious that this is the product name

Mark Orbit · #26 08-05-2009, 05:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carpeperdiem

$product.manufacturer is a valid variable in product.tpl

Does that mean it should work in products_list.tpl (line 29). Is that what you're saying?

Because when I alter:

HTML Code:

{$product.product|escape}

to

HTML Code:

{$product.manufacturer|escape}

it displays nothing at all.

If need be I'll try the method described in #14 but I got the impression that it was not best practice.

cflsystems · #27 08-05-2009, 05:34 AM

product.tpl and products_list.tpl are different templates and $product.manufacturer is not be available in products_list.tpl
You need to edit the php file responsible for populating the products array for products_list.tpl to include manufacturer description in the query

Mark Orbit · #28 08-05-2009, 05:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cflsystems

product.tpl and products_list.tpl are different templates and $product.manufacturer is not be available in products_list.tpl
You need to edit the php file responsible for populating the products array for products_list.tpl to include manufacturer description in the query

Thanks very much Steve. That makes sense. I'll see how I get on doing that.