Add characteristics column to cart

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Hi all,

in my setup I´m using different characteristics, but only one for each product.
I don´t like to append the characteristics to the product´s name. This also causes an error in the sj minicart module I´m using.
So the option needs to be turned off.
However, I would like to display the characteristics on the cart. I already added a new column but have my issues with the related php code that needs to be inserted.

Any idea how this can be done?

Thanks.

Sorry, Nicolas, there´s nothing like that ($row->characteristics) in the cart.php.

I added that code to the table head to display the title of the column:
<th id="hikashop_cart_product_size_title" class="hikashop_cart_product_size_title hikashop_cart_title">
<?php echo JText::_('CART_PRODUCT_UNIT_SIZE'); ?>
</th>

That´s simple.

I also added that code to the table body:
<td data-title="<?php echo JText::_('CART_PRODUCT_CHARACTERISTICS'); ?>" class="hikashop_cart_product_characteristics">
<?php
$user = hikashop_loadUser(true);
echo $user->custom_field;
?>
</td>

I also understand that I need to loop this using 'foreach' but I´m really no php expert and I don´t think that I´m willing to become one
Could you point me to some code that I can copy in here or modify?

Mmhhh, doesn´t work.
I assume I need to change the parameter 'characteristic_name' by some individual name of the characteristic?
I also tried that with the alias of the characteristic name, but that doesn´t work either. Anyway that wouldn´t solve it as I´m using different characteristics - but as I mentioned only one per product.

Hi Jerome,

I am also talking about the cart view (see screenshot in the first post).
I going to attach the modified cart.php. The only things I´ve changed so far are modifications on the fieldset and adding the new column "unit size". For the header this is simple, but I do have my problems to display the values in each row.
I have no php warning - usually i´m not working with php that deep. The site itselfs works, but simply the values of the new column on the cart are not displayed.

Solved!
It was just the wrong parameter. "characteristic_value" of course was right.
I suppose displaying the characteristics on the cart will be requested by many users. So maybe you think about to add this to the cart by default?!

Yes you are right: I´m editing the core files which is much easier than using the override view. But that doesn´t matter as long as I have backups of these files, so in case of an update the changes are not lost.

Thanks again.

nicolas wrote: We won't add that by default since, as you said in the beginning, the characteristic value is already added at the end of the product name by default.

That´s up to you, but to be honest I´ve never seen a web shop that adds a characteristic to the product name. I mean this really looks confusing. I personally think that it´s much clearer to have that in a separate column.

Anyway I´ve got the same issue with the order confirmation mail.
Also in this mail I would like to add the column with characteristics. The design and the head of the table is again no problem, but the value of the characteristic in the table body does not work.

I identified that the related code is in the preload version of the mail. So I would need something similar as this code for the product name as well for the characteristics, right?

$cartProduct('PRODUCT_NAME') = $t;

$t = '';
$statusDownload = explode(',',$config->get('order_status_for_download','confirmed,shipped'));
if(!empty($item->files) && in_array($data->order->order_status,$statusDownload)){
$t .= '<p>';
foreach($item->files as $file){
$fileName = empty($file->file_name) ? $file->file_path : $file->file_name;
$file_pos = empty($file->file_pos) ? '' : ('&file_pos=' . $file->file_pos);
if(empty($customer->user_cms_id))
$file_pos .= '&email=' . $customer->user_email;
$t .= '<a href="'.hikashop_frontendLink('index.php?option=com_hikashop&ctrl=order&task=download&file_id='.$file->file_id.'&order_id='.$data->order_id.$file_pos.$url_itemid).'">'.$fileName.'</a><br/>';
}
$t .= '</p>';
}

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$cartProduct('PRODUCT_CHARACTERISTICS) = $t;

$t = '';
if(!empty($row->characteristics)) {
$t .= '<p>';
foreach($row->characteristics as $c) {
echo $c->characteristic_value; }
}

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Edit: I replaced the squared brackets, otherwise the code will not be displayed.

Hi Nicolas,

I can comprehend rudimentarily what you say but I have clue how the related code needs to look like.
I did the same on the cart. Therefor you provided that code:
<?php
if(!empty($row->characteristics)) {
foreach($row->characteristics as $c) {
echo $c->characteristic_value; } }
?>

which worked fine. But i really don´t know how to modify that for the mail (no PHP expert! )

When you say that characteristics are not stored in the order, does that mean when turning off the function "adding characteristics value to the products name" that the characteristic will not be stored anywhere?
So in the result you are not able to see what kind of product the customer has purchased?
I mean this would be a show stopper using Hikashop for that kind of products when you don´t like to add the characteristic to the product name!

1. It should be something like that:

if(!empty($row->order_product_options)){
$characteristics = unserialize($row->order_product_options);
foreach($characteristics as $c){
 echo $c->characteristic_value;
}
}

Could be something like that, but doesn´t work

2. It will always be stored in order_product_options
If you don't want to add the characteristic value to the product_name, you can always add some CSS to hide the characteristic value added to the product name and add your own display with order_product_options. That's why it's there.

Does that mean that I have to turn on the option "add characteristic to product name" to make sure that the characteristic will be stored in the order and then use CSS (e. g. something like "position: absolute; left: -9999px; top: -9999px;" to make the characteristic "invisible" if I don´t want to display them at the end of the products' name?