Magento: How do I separate the display of multiple attributes? - php

Question

I am using this code to display (on the frontend) all assigned attributes of a product in Magento:
<?php if ($_product->getData('metal')): ?>
<?php echo nl2br($_product->getResource()->getAttribute('metal')->getFrontend()->getValue($_product )) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
I need to separate each item with a bullet point • and a break <br/>. How would I edit this code to reflect those changes?
Thanks in advance.
_Sam

Answer 1

If you want more control over the output (maybe you want to style the individual value), use explode();
<?php $attr = explode("," , $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_data['value'], $_data['code']));
echo "<ul>";
?>
<?php foreach ($attr as $attrValue) {
echo "<li>" . $attrValue . "</li>";
}
echo "</ul>";
?>

Answer 2

Assuming that the above code is "working"... make this change:
<?php echo "•".nl2br($_product->getResource()->getAttribute('metal')->getFrontend()->getValue($_product ))."<br/>" ?>
the . is a string concatenation operator.
Or are you asking how to do it if the above is the HTML of a listing of products? Then this should work...
<?php
$somehtml=nl2br($_product->getResource()->getAttribute('metal')->getFrontend()->getValue($_product ));
$somehtml=explode("<br />",$somehtml); // This ASSumes nl2br inserts <br /> between each line and this
// would lead to the behaviour you want.
// see: http://php.net/manual/en/function.nl2br.php
$somehtml=implode("<br/>\n•",$somehtml);
$somehtml="•".$somehtml."<br/>\n";
echo $somehtml;
unset($somehtml);
?>
explode makes an array from a string by chopping up the string via the "<br />". implode then rejoins the the string by putting <br/>\n• between each element. And finally, I add the bullet point to the front and br at the end. When imploding, you still must consider the "outside" of the string.

Answer 3

Solved.
It is easy: copy attributes.phtml from base if you do not have one in you default package.
Put in app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/view/ folder
Change line 46 from:
<td class="data"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_data['value'], $_data['code']) ?></td>
to show separate product attributes:
<td class="data"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, str_replace(",", "<br />", $_data['value']), $_data['code']) ?></td>