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[jp@ewaycorp.com]

Hello Everyone & Specially Tony , i have been using x-cart 5 for my new project and quite like working on it.

Now i have to show product variant in list view instead of drop down list along with their name, price, sku, qty, Add to cart button.

My Product consist of "ARTIST/AUTHOR" And "MEDIA TYPE" Attribute.

Now my variant are based on "MEDIA TYPE" Attribute.

I have seen one of your example and created this

PHP Code:

<?php

namespace XLite\Module\EwayCorp\EdactSkin\View\Product\Details\Customer\Page;

abstract class APage extends \XLite\View\Product\Details\Customer\Page\APage implements \XLite\Base\IDecorator
{
    protected function getArtistAttributes() 
    { 
        $attributesToDisplay = array ('ARTIST/AUTHOR'); 

        $return = array(); 

        $widgets = $this->getAttributesWidgets(); 

        foreach ($widgets as $widget) { 

            foreach ($widget->getAttrList() as $attribute) { 

                if (in_array(strtoupper($attribute['name']), $attributesToDisplay)) { 

                    $return[] = $attribute; 

                } 

            } 

        } 

        return $return; 
    }  
    protected function getMediaTypeAttributes() 
    { 
        $attributesToDisplay = array ('MEDIA TYPE'); 

        $return = array(); 

        $widgets = $this->getAttributesWidgets(); 

        foreach ($widgets as $widget) { 

            foreach ($widget->getAttrList() as $attribute) { 

                if (in_array(strtoupper($attribute['name']), $attributesToDisplay)) { 

                    $return[] = $attribute; 

                } 

            } 

        } 

        return $return; 
    } 
}

I get getArtistAttributes() values as CSV for multiple values for authors/artists which is fine.

When i call getMediaTypeAttributes() i get only the names in CSV where want variant information like price, sku, qty etc..

Please help on how to achieve this and thanks in advance.

[tony_sologubov]

Hi!

This is an example of how to pull info about variants:

PHP Code:

<?php

require_once 'top.inc.php';

$product = \XLite\Core\Database::getRepo('\XLite\Model\Product')->find(22);

$variants = $product->getVariants();
foreach ($variants as $variant) {
    echo 'qty ' . (($variant->defaultAmount) ? $product->getQty() : $variant->amount) . 
    '; price ' .  (($variant->defaultPrice) ? $product->price : $variant->price) . '<br /><br />';
}

This is a PHP script that must be put into X-Cart 5's root folder.

Hopefully, it will help.

If there is further help needed, please explain a bit what result you are trying to achieve. I still did not grasp it. Do you want to list product attributes on product lists (like category pages) or something different?

Tony.

[jp@ewaycorp.com]

Thanks Tony your answer really helped a lot.
Another simple thing i want to ask. Now i want variant attribute values ID how do i get this information.

I can get variant id using

PHP Code:

$variant->getId(); 


Also, I cannot do var_dump() or print_r() from the views just for debugging purpose how can i do those.

Debugging through var/run/ codes helps me now to not rebuild application so often.

[jp@ewaycorp.com]

I have figured out how to do it on my own.

PHP Code:

protected function getVariantsInfo() 
    {

        $product = $this->getProduct();
        //echo $id = $product->getProductId();
        
        $variants = $product->getVariants(); 

        foreach ($variants as $variant) {
            $v_info=array();
            $v_info['quantity']=(($variant->defaultAmount) ? $product->getQty() : $variant->amount);
            $v_info['price']=(($variant->defaultPrice) ? $product->price : $variant->price);
            $v_info['sku']=(($variant->sku) ? $product->sku : $variant->sku);
            $v_info['product_id'] = $product->getProductId();
            $v_info['category_id'] = $product->getCategoryId();
            $v_info['attr_group_id'] = "62"; // Your select box ID
            foreach($variant->getAttributeValues() as $attribute)
            {
                $v_info['media_type']= trim($attribute->getAttributeOption()->getName());
                $v_info['attribute_id'] = $attribute->getId();
            }
            $variant_info[]=$v_info;
        }
        return $variant_info; 
    } 


In Template File

	{foreach:getVariantsInfo(),a}
	<li> 
	<span class="icon"><img src="images/cd-icon.png" alt="cd-icon"></span>
	<span class="details-with-sku">{product.name:h} ({a.media_type})<br/><p>SKU: {a.sku}</p></span>
	<span class="buy-now"> ${a.price}<br/>
	<form action="{buildURL(#cart#)}" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
		<div class="form-params" style="display: none;">
			<input type="hidden" name="target" value="cart">
			<input type="hidden" name="action" value="add">
			<input type="hidden" name="product_id" value="{a.product_id}">
			<input type="hidden" name="category_id" value="{a.category_id}">
			<input type="hidden" name="attribute_values[{a.attr_group_id}]" value="{a.attribute_id}">
			<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="1">
			<input type="hidden" name="returnURL" value="{product.cleanURL}">
		</div>
		<input class="add_to_cart_mediatype" type="submit" value="" />
	</form>
	
	</span>
	<div class="clearfix"></div> 
	</li>
	{end:}

Now you can have a list of variant with buy now button and clicking on it will add the specific variant to your cart.

I hope this would help someone who is trying to figure out this kind of requirement.

Also print_r is done like this

echo "<pre>";
\Doctrine\Common\Util\Debug::dump($entity);
echo "</pre>";

[tony_sologubov]

Hi Jwala!

Thank you for sharing the code and happy to hear that you managed to apply the solution you need.

Tony