Create Catalog from Product Database

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11 years 5 months ago #109606

I have a client that would like to have a shopping cart. In addition to their cart they would like for the system to be able to automatically generate a PDF catalog of all of their products from the information (including images) that is in the database. Is this something that hikashop can do with some programming? is there an add-on that could do this in conjunction with Hikashop?

I'm attaching an example of their current price list.

Please let me know as soon as possible.

Thanks

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11 years 5 months ago #109619

Hi,

There is no image attached to your post.
There is no PDF catalog generation plugin per se, but you can have something pretty close :
You can use the Products listing menu item that HikaShop creates by default to have a listing of all the products of the store (increase the number of elements option of the menu so that you have them all on one page). Then, you can access it on your frontend, add the parameter ?tmpl=component to the URL to remove the template and the modules around and then click on the print button of your browser to print it. Then, if you have a virtual PDF printer installed on your computer, you can use it to generate the PDF out of that listing.
If you want to generate that automatically and periodically, I'm sure that you could find some tool out there which could automatically convert a HTML page into a PDF. For example, that tool with a cron task: www.verypdf.com/app/html-converter/html-converter-cmd.html

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11 years 5 months ago #109654

Thanks for the reply. Yes, the attachment failed to attach. But that's ok.

I do need something that converts the products - product info and image - automatically. Something that requires no technical expertise from the end-user (the web site visitor/customer). I am imagining something that pulls in the info from the database for HikaShop. I looked at the link you provided and doesn't look like it does that.

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11 years 5 months ago #109674

The link I gave is a software that you can call via a cron task to generate automatically a PDF from a URL.
So if you give it a URL of all your products listing like I explained in my post before that, you will be able to generate a PDF automatically periodically.
Then, you simply need to add a link to that PDF on your website so that people can download it.

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10 years 1 week ago #179929

Hi Nicolas

Thanks for the advise it works great, I just have one question though, the images on the catalog page are overlapping is there a way to adjust the image size of the images on the catalog page only the rest of the sites images must stay the same.
I am using a table layout on the Catalog page, the rest of the site is set to DIV.

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10 years 1 week ago #179952

Hi,

You can potentially apply css rules only on the image of the table listing. So base on the class:

hikashop_product_image_row

www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...ize-the-display.html

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