How School manager purchase product for student

Hello,

From what you tell us, we are quite sure that what you requested is possible with HikaShop.
Now, in order to guide you more precisely can you detail more of your scenario please ?

Give us a concrete example, and develop each specific point like what is precisely the "School Manager", the buyer ? And this buyer have to associated each file to the required student ?...
By very specific, more you will be precise more our guidance will be complete.

Regards

Hi,

Unfortunately, there is no mechanism for that in HikaShop. Only the user who made the purchase get access to the content linked with the products purchased.
There is also no user selection mechanism. That could be added quite easily with a custom field but the main problem is with giving access to the content purchased to the users after the order.

One thing you could do instead is to use HikaSerial so that products are linked to different packs of serials.
Then, when the user purchases products on the website, he would receive serial codes.
Then, the user could manually distribute the codes to the different students and then, they could use the consume interface of HikaSerial once logged in to get access to the content through them being added to user groups linked to the serial packs:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/2...s-groupconsumer.html
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/1...onsume-features.html
This thus requires the school manager to manually distribute the serial codes to the students, and for the students to manually consume their serial codes on your website. But to get exactly what you want and automate everything would require a substantial custom development (problem several thousands euros of developers fees).

Hi,

If you want to build a plugin yourself, then I think the best would be to do it like this:
- create a custom item field of the type "multiple dropdown" and use the "MySQL query" mode to dynamically fill the selector with the users of your website. Also, configure the "access" setting of the custom field to a specific user group of your website so that only school managers, added to that user group, will see that selector on the products.
That way, on each product page, the school managers will be able to select the users for which they want to add the products to the cart.
- create a plugin of the group "hikashop" and implement the "onAfterOrderUpdate" trigger, as you mentioned.
However, instead of copying the order to the user, (which won't work if you have different users selected for the same order), I would recommend to just add the user groups to the users based on what product was bought. That will require having one user group for each content you want to be available. You can use the plugins/hikashop/group/ plugin as an example for some of your pieces of code. This plugin adds user groups to the current user after the purchase thanks to the "user group after purchase" setting it adds to the products.
Then, you can either restrict Joomla articles to user groups, or even restrict "free download" files you've added to products based on the user group. That way, students will directly get access to the files on the product pages, without having to go through orders they didn't create, which would confuse them.

Hi,

1. There is no mechanism for that with the "MySQL query" system of custom fields.
In that case, what you can do is to implement the Fields API in your HikaShop plugin in order to create your own type of custom field:
www.hikashop.com/support/documentation/6...entation.html#fields
You can see an example of such a plugin with the files in the folder plugins/hikashop/datepickerfield/ of your website which add the "advanced date picker" type of custom fields to the system. In your case, you would extend the single dropdown class from administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/field.php so that you would just have to inject the values manually in the display function of your custom field type class before calling the display function of the parent class. That way, you can use all the PHP you want and thus you can easily retrieve the current user id with something like this:

$user = JFactory::getUser(); echo $user->id;

Hi,

1. Ah yes, I meant to say multiple dropdown class. It's in the same file.

2. Here, you can see a plugin which multiply the price of the product in the cart by the number entered in a custom item field:
www.hikashop.com/marketplace/product/221...quantity-plugin.html
So you could base yourself on this plugin's code so that instead of directly multiplying the price by the value in the custom field, you would count the number of selected values in it and multiply the price by that calculated number.

You could alternatively add javascript to change the value in the quantity input field. However, as you say, you would need a server-side check to make sure that this quantity is correct. It's possible too. You could for example implement the onAfterCartProductsLoad(&$cart) trigger when the cart is being loaded to check that the quantity is correct and modify it if not.

However, I think the solution based on the custom quantity plugin is a simpler approach.

Hi,

You want to use the preflight hook of the joomla installer:
docs.joomla.org/Extension_Installer/Installer_Hooks
docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Creating_a_simple_m...pdate_script_file/en
And in it, you want to check if the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/helpers/helper.php is there.
If not you can stop the installation process.
Looking a bit online they recommend either returning false or throwing an exception:
joomla.stackexchange.com/questions/22273...stalling-a-component
joomla.stackexchange.com/questions/20982...antain-actual-folder

Hi,

Yes. We can discuss the details in private. Please go through our contact form and provide more information on what you're thinking about (paid or free, GPL or not, self hosted or hosted by us, etc ) :
www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html