Charackteristic Parameters

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Hello Everybody,

I am searching for a way to add some images to charackteristics. In the table:

#_hikashop_characteristic

characteristic_params

Hey Jerome,

to give an example: I have a product with three characteristics, about ten possibilities each, what generates about 1000 variants. By default the characteristics appear as drop down list on the product page, so in my case there are three drop down lists, one for each characteristic.

I would like to gererate three Grids of links (one Grid per characteristic) whereby there should appear an image next to the name of the characteristic. So if one of the characteristics is a color and one of the possible colors is red, than there should appear a link which includes an image that shows the red color and the word "red" next to it.

I could already manage to generate the Grids of links and now I am searching for a way to decorate each single characteristic.

Therefore I had a look at the database and found the field characteristic_params empty, so I thought this one might be a good place to add the link to the image there, but there is no interface for entering any values.

Hi,

I think that this is what you are looking for:
www.hikashop.com/support/support/documen...isplay-by-color.html

Hello Xavier,

thanks a lot for the reply! I have not known about that tutorial and you are to 80% right that this is what I am looking for, but not completely…

As noted in the example (third post of this thread), I need more than just an image, the name of the characteristic and probably more data, i. e. the content of the alt attribute and so on.

But I could already manage to solve that and I would like to share how I did it. The idea is quite simple: I changed the administration form of the characteristics, so that a new input field appears.

So changed the file*:

~/administrator/components/com_hikashop/views/characteristic/tmpl/normal.php

<?php
/**
 * @package	HikaShop for Joomla!
 * @version	2.3.4
 * @author	hikashop.com
 * @copyright	(C) 2010-2014 HIKARI SOFTWARE. All rights reserved.
 * @license	GNU/GPLv3 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
 */
defined('_JEXEC') or die('Restricted access');
?>				

<table class="admintable table" width="280px" style="margin:auto">
	<tr>
		<td class="key">
				<?php echo JText::_( 'HIKA_NAME' ); ?>
		</td>
		<td>
			<input id="characteristic_value" type="text" name="<?php echo $this->characteristic_value_input;?>" value="<?php echo $this->escape(@$this->element->characteristic_value); ?>" />
			<?php if(isset($this->characteristic_value_published)){
						$publishedid = 'published-'.$this->characteristic_value_id;
				?>
				<span id="<?php echo $publishedid; ?>" class="spanloading"><?php echo $this->toggle->toggle($publishedid,(int) $this->characteristic_value_published,'translation') ?></span>
			<?php } ?>
		</td>
	</tr>
<!-- I added this row -->
	<tr>
		<td class="key">
			<?php echo JText::_( 'HIKA_PARAMS' ); ?>
		</td>
		<td>
<!-- please not the name »characteristic_params« matches the name of colum in the database-->
			<textarea 
				id="characteristic_params" 
				name="data[characteristic][characteristic_params]"><?php echo $this->escape(@$this->element->characteristic_params); ?></textarea>
		</td>
	</tr>
</table>