Display variant options on product listing

Hi there,

I've been searching for an answer to my question on the forum, and haven't quite found a solution yet. However, I do apologize if this question is redundant in any way, and if I have missed any documentation or help.

Also, if it's necessary to help, I'm using the "Essentials" version.

Basically what I'm trying to do is cut out the product page from the entire purchasing process. I'm using {loadposition} to load only one product in each article, and each product will require variants. As of now, in the article, it displays the "Show Options" button which then takes them to the product page, which then displays the "Add to Cart" button. My products are so simple in nature, that the product page does not show the customer any new information, except the ability to choose their option/variant. To save the customer time, and to reduce this process, I'm hopeful that I can get the variants to display on the product listing, and that the button would no longer say "Show Options," but would say "Add to Cart" and take them directly to the cart, much like products that don't have variants.

I read another post here on the forum, where you gave this response:

Variants options aren't displayed on the listing of products so if you have products with variants you should indeed have the user go in the product page so that he can select the variant before adding to the cart.

I understand what you want to do but we wanted to avoid loading all the variants data with all the processing behind for each product of the listing because if you start having a lot of products displayed and a lot of variants for each, it's just too much. So we decided to just do it on the product page. It's not really a bug, that's just the way it is.

• Add something like this to the modules/zzparams.php view, perhaps?

  <td>
  <?php echo $this->orderType->display($this->control.'[characteristics]',$this->characteristics,'product');?>
  </td>

• Add something like this to the product listing view:

  <?php
  		}
  		if(!empty($this->element->characteristics)){
  			?><span id="hikashop_product_characteristics" class="hikashop_product_characteristics"><?php 
  			echo $this->characteristic->displayFE($this->element,$this->params);
  			?></span><br /><?php 
  		}
  		$form = '';
  		?>

• Somehow change the "Show Options" text and destination?? Not sure where to do this.

It appears the PHP code was stripped from my original post above. I'll try again to use the code tags, and see if it works.

<td>
<?php echo $this->orderType->display($this->control.'[characteristics]',$this->characteristics,'product');?>
</td>

<?php
		}
		if(!empty($this->element->characteristics)){
			?><span id="hikashop_product_characteristics" class="hikashop_product_characteristics"><?php 
			echo $this->characteristic->displayFE($this->element,$this->params);
			?></span><br /><?php 
		}
		$form = '';
		?>