I need the add to cart form on each product to display separate quantity fields so items of different attributes can be added at the same time. This is for a photography site, so it makes sense for the customer to order 2 6x4 prints and one 10x8.
Right now the add to cart form is something like this:
Here is a mockup of what I want to have:
I have no idea which hooks to use, or if it's even possible to add multiple product variants in one POST. Is anyone familiar enough with the Ubercart api to tell me how I can go about doing this.
I found this googling for a solution to the same problem. Unfortunately I couldn't find anything.
So I made a patch and sent it in to an issue with a similar request - http://drupal.org/node/782154#comment-3925090
The patch isn't tested very well yet, but I will be going live with it or a subsequent solution in a couple of weeks.
Hope it helps.
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I found a issue with woocommerce and variable products.
The products works good on the frontend but If I try to do the same from the backend, I can't selected the variations that I want.
I just can add a meta (It's an input text field) and this is very limited.
Can I fix this with a hook/function or plugin?
Really need help.
Thanks,
Your question is somewhat difficult to understand. Are you asking if you can change the combination of variations for a product on the backend after an order has been made?
I have only ever been able to do such a thing, in certain situations from within fulfillment software (ShipStation in my case), and even then it's no simple task. The reason likely being due to the fact that WooCommerce essentially locks the order after payment, as a failsafe to the customer probably.
I'm currently attempting to extend the inherent Magento product view to divide the custom options belonging to a configurable product into sections loaded by ajax. The end goal is to create a step by step process guiding the user through each step of the product configuration process before they would add the product to the cart.
Advanced Custom Product Options
We are also utilizing Mageworx's Advanced Custom Product Options to allow for the larger customization of products.
Simple Products Linked to Configurable
Our current environment is set up to handle simple products as configurators for their parent configurable product. When a user navigates to the simple product, they are directed to the configurable product with the option represented by the simple product pre-selected.
End Goal
The hopeful endpoint would be that once a user clicks on a simple product, they would be redirected to the configurable product with a single pre-selected option depending on the simple product. The user would then be able to customize their order, or jump directly to adding it to the cart as is. The customization process would re-evaluate at each step to determine if there is a concurrent step, for example, if the user were to select to add trim, there would be an additional step to customize that trim, whereas if they opted out, the step would be skipped.
The idea is simply a product configurator within the Magento framework, something similar, in function, as to what appears below. The checkout steps being Style, Color, and Size, each which have their own page.
The Overarching Question
I am fairly new to the development of Magento, and am wondering what the best method of attacking this problem is. I have thought of using an observer to hook into before add to cart, but I am unsure it would allow me to refresh the blocks and load in new data. My other idea was to tap into view.phtml and set up some ajax loading within the page itself, but that seemed a bit 'hacky'.
I have spent quite a while searching for examples on how some have overcome this problems, but haven't found much outside of some very vague ideas on what could work. If any one has insight onto a solution to my problem, their thoughts would be much appreciated.
Current Approach
So far I've tried creating a Router for a Controller to handle POST requests to change out the Product Option sidebar when a value is changed. It seems a little bit slow, however.
I'm completely new on working with Magento and I'm going to create a module in order to validate and in some cases manipulate some cart/order information.
To be specific I'm gonna restrict the customer from buying an item more than X times.
I've started working on this a bit, but I'm not so satisfied with the solution.
This is how I've done it so far:
I've created a new module with a controller which subclasses Mage_Checkout_CartController and there I've implemented the addAction-method. So every time a product is added to the cart I search through the user's order history and look for previous orders containing this product. Then I prevent it from being added and trigger an error-message.
It has a lot of shortcomings. For instance, if the customer isn't logged in at the time he can add the product, you can update the cart with too many... etc.
I would be me comfortable if I could hook on events, but I don't know where to start. Haven't found so good guides about this.
I want to do this verification when listing cart, updating cart and before submitting order.
So, my questions are:
How do I add observers on these events in my module? I couldn't get config.xml-configuration for event observing to work. I also need to know the names of these events.
How do I manipulate the quantity of an item in cart / delete it? When updating cart with too many of the products I want to change the quantity and trigger an error.
If you have any other ideas on a better solution for this, you're very welcome to comment.
I appreciate any help. Thanks.
I think this article should answer on all your questions. See events list at the bottom of this article. Do not forget delete cache after each change made to config.xml and other xml files in your module etc folder.
I'd like to add some functionality to the comparing feature Magento offers. When comparing products, users are presented with an 'Add to cart' button. This feature only works well for simple products. When pressing the add to cart button on a configurable or bundled product the user is redirected to the product detail, out of the compare view.
Would it not be much better when a user could configure the products inside the compare view?!
Do you guys know of a magento plugin that does this trick? Or have ideas how this feature could be implemented in the existing source?
This is something that comes up from time to time as I develop Magento sites. The gist of the problem is this: the logic for dealing with configurable/bundle/etc products is not simple. The JS code that was written to handle this convoluted logic is written is such a way that multiple products on the same page cannot be accomodated.
So, to do what you want, the first thing to do is to simplify your products down significantly. The brunt of the complexity is dealing with multiple configurable attributes and changing pricing, etc. After that, you'll need to rewrite the configurable product JS to set up the submit form properly. Once you get the right data submitted, you should be pretty safe.
Hope that gives you a hint!
Thanks,
Joe
I'm currently using WP Shopping Cart.
Per order of a product, I need to attach some meta data such as size, frame options and frame colour. These different options change the price of the end product.
My first idea was to simply add a new product via the database each time, adding the necessary info to the product description and changing the price accordingly. However, this sounds like an ugly hack that will only lead me to problems down the track.
Is there any WordPress ecommerce system that allows this, or do you have a better solution to my problem?
Thanks
This comes a bit late but... Getshopped seems to meet you needs.
They call the product meta variations and I've linked you to the specific page.
Hope it helps!