How to: Show Manufacturer on Product Page

Hi,

I recently purchased the Business version of Hikashop and after playing with it for a couple of days, I am very happy with the possibilities.

However my client's shop sells art and on each product page they want to show the artist of the product and other products by the same artist. I thought I had this working, but unfortunately the artist that is shown is the first artist from the database and not the artist of the product. Showing the other products of the same artist works fine.

I am using the module that is shown in the picture to achieve this. I also tried to set the synchronize option to yes, but then nothing is shown on the product page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gert.

Thanks Nicolas and that on Christmay Day!

Would it be possible to add this as a feature request? It is not very friendly to have the information to be entered twice.

Bonne Noël,

Gert.

Nicholas,

In addition to my previous post, I need to show the artist picture and a description as shown below. I believe this is not possible with a custom field as there is no custom field type picture.

Any other suggestions on how I could achieve this?

Gert.

Hi Nicholas,

I'm not quite sure whether I understand your explanation correctly.

What I would like to achieve is the following:

I have to category groups defined:

1. Product Category
2. Artist

What I would like to achieve on the product page is to be able to show all artists the are assigned to the product. Basically I think this should be possible, but again maybe I understand you wrong.

In the meantime I will try out the solution you proposed. Thanks for that.

Gert.

Nicholas,

I managed to get the artist description to appear in the way you described. But the picture is not working.

I entered the following value in the picture field: <img alt="Nit Kantawong"
src=" www.thaihandmadecraft.com/cms/images/sto...ts/Nit_Kantawong.jpg "
height="213" width="213">

But the system doesn't accept this.

I also tried: www.thaihandmadecraft.com/cms/images/sto...ts/Nit_Kantawong.jpg

This is accepted, but nothing shows on the product page.

What is the correct format I should use?

Gert.

Nicholas,

Little update on my last post.

Got your suggestion working already.

Thanks for the tip.

Still interested in a permanent better solution ofcourse.

Gert.

Nicholas,

One more thing. How can I set a custom field to accept html?

Gert.

Hi Nicolas,

I implemented this:

1. Indeed HTML tags are removed from custom fields for security reasons.
You can change the line
Code:
$object->$column = strip_tags($value);
to
Code:
$safeHtmlFilter = & JFilterInput::getInstance(null, null, 1, 1); $object->$column = $safeHtmlFilter->clean($value, 'string');
in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/field.php

However, my html code is still stripped.

Anything else I should do?

Gert.

Hi Nicholas,

I ran into one other problem using the solution of a custom field.

My site is multilingual and for extra fields I can only translate the labels through Joomfish, not the content.

Is there a solution to this?

Gert.

Hi Nicholas,

I followed your suggestion. This is what happens.

Nicholas,

All the translation strings start and end with ".

As a test I tried both the following:

MY_CUSTOM_TEXT='Nit Kantawong'
MY_CUSTOM_TEXT="Nit Kantawong"

In both cases the product page still shows MY_CUSTOM_TEXT

Gert.

Nicholas,

That is strange indeed. Just to be sure I downloaded the latest language file from the website and moved my entry to the very top of the file.

I still cannot get it working.

I have attached the language file so you can see for yourself.

Gert.

Here is the file.