there are some default attributes in reviews and rating section, they are Product,Posted By,Summary Rating,Detailed Rating,Status,Nickname,Summary of Review and Review. now i want to add one more attibute named "selected size", how can i finish that ?
Reviews are not EAV entities. So extending this is somewhat easier.
1) You can add a new field in the review_detail table and extend the module to also save this new field. You will not need to do too much work at the module level (mostly the effort is to display this new field in new review form and related views).
2) You can create a new table (don't alter Magento's core db Tables) with a reference to Review (review_id) and your custom field. This also means to extend Review model's and use afterSave, afterLoad functions to save/retrieve your data...
3) Duplicate entire module logic with custom tables (I've seem some more than a few commercial extensions that have this approach to do stuff with reviews, inventory and so on). Not recommended.
you should create a module with a sql upgrade script. it's covered in tutorials by alan storm and in the database section of the videos series provided by magento, available in your account section of their site. these 2 resources both cover the rest of the skills you'll need to finish your work in accordance with magento programming practices.
In Magento 1.x review attributes are managed under >Catalog > Ratings > Manage Ratings.
In Magento 2.x they they are managed under Stores > Atrributes > Ratings.
There you will be able to add, edit or remove review attributes such Price, Quality, Value, etc.
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In my magento application i want to create a module which is for adding FAQ for a individual product. So while adding the FAQ, in the new tab i want to show the list of all products(like product listing) for which product we want to add FAQ.
So please help me how to customize for getting list of products and display in the new tab?
The question is too broad friend. So don't hope any full solution here. That is because, this question is related to an external extension. But you will get guidance here. Here you may need to do following things.
I think in admin, the extension provides provision to manage each individual faque. What you need to do is, you need to create an extra field that will relate that faq with a product or multiple products.
If you set up this, you need to store this information in database. So for each faq, there may be a product id or multiple product ids related to it
Now you need to create a new block for your extension. This block will filter faqs that related to a particular product.
Next step is add above block in layout. Layout handle you need to use here is catalog_product_view.
Create a new template for your custom block and in that template file, you need to put design codes. You can create this template with the help of current template that this extension uses. That way, you can reduce a lot of time for creating the design.
Hope that helps !
I've troubles to figure out how to change the prices of a product in the magento DB.
I tryed to change the prices in the catalog_product_index_price table but the price doesn't change.
There is a website here that explains it in more detail, but the short answer is that you need to change the price in the catalog_product_entity_decimal table and then reindex Product Prices in the backend (and potentially Product Flat Data as well)
Magento uses variety of indexing and caching methods that make simply changing the value directly in the database not a good idea.
If you look, you can see the prices are also defined in the Price Index tables:
catalog_product_index_price_idx
And also the flat tables (if you use them):
catalog_product_flat_1 (number 1 depends on store)
If you're trying to mass update prices, I recommend either using a tool such as Magmi or the built in Magento import methods to update prices. Directly modifying the database is generally not a good idea with Magento, given it's complex database structure.
I used MVC before. Now I am a learning HMVC.
I have product, product_category, product_description and product_images tables in my database.
I want to display list of products in my website with basic product information. Clicking on a product will redirect to a different page and will display all the product related information.
What is the best way to achieve this according to HMVC(Modular MVC) pattern?
Should I create different modules for each table like product module, product category module etc..?(In this case I will have one model class in each module/model. I found this idea when searching internet)
Should I create one module called products and put all the files related to this in that module? (In this case I will be having all the product, product_category, product_description product_images model classes under products/models)
Should I follow a completely different implementation from the techniques I've mentioned above? (Please provide specific details to build this module)
(I'm using codeignitor for my development)
Thanks a lot!
Lets simplify the things for you.
If you have category as menu (Same as magento), i will recommend you to create new module for cateogry
Coming back to product, you can manage all things with the 1 product controller.
In category, category will have its own model to interact with database.
In your product model, you can manage all kind of transactions in one model because they are part of product only.
If you want to move bit advance, you can have a sql folder in each module so that you can install the and create tables when you just drop folder to modules. For this you can create a small script where, in regular interval of time, it will check the new modules, and if that script found some new modules, it will install the .sql file in the sql folder, which will update the database schema.
Hope this will help you
Here's the setup (using a made-up scenario), but applicable to my real situation:
For the purposes of this explanation, let's say that i design T-shirts (Let's call them ShirtA, shirtB, shirtC). Rather than selling them myself, i have several vendors that sell the product for me (we'll call them Vendors X, Y, and Z).
I have a table in my Joomla database for the vendors, and a table for the t-shirts.
When customers are buying from this vendor, they will visit my site and based on the ID url variable, will display a different vendor's page.
Each vendor can choose to sell all of my t-shirts, or only some of them. Additionally, the vendor can override the price that i have set in the t-shirt table, with their own.
In the admin section of the component, each vendor needs to be able to select which t-shirt they want to sell, and provide an optional price override.
This is how i imagine it looking...
Each vendor will have a column in their table that will contain the serialized data of a multidimensional array. The main array contains a sub-array for each t-shirt that i have in my t-shirt table. Each of those sub-arrays contains all of the override data (price, sizes offered, etc..).
How would i write the model, view, and/or edit page in a Joomla 2.5 component so that a vendor can select all of the options in the component admin page, and have it serialized in a column?
I am sorry if this is poorly explained and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't hesitate to ask if you need further information in order to assist me.
Thanks!
I hate to say it, but I don't think that there is a "standard" method to do this in Joomla 2.5. Joomla has all kinds of ways to interact with the database and use their standard classes, but none of the classes are designed to work with serialized data to the best of my knowledge, so you would be stuck building all of the pieces by hand.
That being said, in general the model, should handle retrieving and storing the serialized data, the view would request any data in the database from the model, and the edit page should unserialize the data and display it in a way that your vendors can add their overrides. Beyond that it would be up to you to code each piece in your own way.
I've never set a store up to use Price Alerts before, and now that I've gone through and gotten it to work, it appears as though the alert is only triggered when a product's 'Price' attribute changes.
This is nice, but what about tiered pricing? Looking through the ProductAlert core module, I am not sure where this attribute is being filtered.
I'm guessing that an additional model, say 'productalert/tierprice' will need to be created, followed by a new method in Observer.php, likely _processTierprice(). Just not sure if this concept is correct... could use a little guidance.
Thanks!
This shouldn't be too difficult; lots of options (it's Magento, after all)!
I'd add new methods to deal with tier price alerts. For products with tier pricing, you'd need to capture the relevant tier data along with the final price (either in a new table or in new columns on the existing product alert table). The alerts are sent out via scheduled job. So, in a nutshell (overrides where necessary):
Alter the product alert schema as necessary, and amend the frontend form fields to suit
In the overridden Mage_ProductAlert_AddController add a tierPriceAction() method to process the alert subscription, or adjust its existing priceAction() to handle the data being posted in / tier condition
Override Mage_ProductAlert_Model_Observer as needed; I'd include a _processesTierPrice method() similar to _processPrice().
Add a resource model method to get the tier-related prices
Add a tier price email block and template (reference Mage_ProductAlert_Block_Email_Abstract)
Profit!
As a reference for your price logic, see Mage_Catalog_Model_Product_Type_Price.