I would like to show all products without creating any new category and mapping to it.
Can any one help me?
Thanks in advance.
It's true; in order for a product to be displayed in nopCommerce, it must be assigned to a category. Your best bet is to create a top-level umbrella category, like "All Products", and add all of your products to that umbrella category.
As far as I know their must be a category associated with product.
You can create a plugin, map a route to it (for example map to 'allproducts' route), and create your own Controllers, Actions and Views within the plugin. Then insert in the main menu a link to the route by mean of
#Html.RouteLink(routeName, null) //or similar overloads
The plugin creation part is too huge to be described here. http://www.nopcommerce.com/documentation.aspx is a good start.
PS:/ Regarding routing, each plugin can implement a route registrar by implementing the "IRouteProvider" interface.
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You can do that by modifying the code. I have done it before. It is actually quite simple.
Modify the Category action of the Catalogue controller to receive a nullable CategoryId:
public ActionResult Category(int? categoryId, CatalogPagingFilteringModel command){
modify the action to not break because of this nullable paramters.
The most important part to modify is where you build the list of category Ids to filter:
var categoryIds = new List<int>();
if (category != null)
{
categoryIds.Add(category.Id);
}
if (_catalogSettings.ShowProductsFromSubcategories)
{
//include subcategories
categoryIds.AddRange(GetChildCategoryIds(category.Id));
}
The mothod _productService.SearchProducts will receive an empty list of category Ids and will not filter any products.
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The subject of this question was a bit hard to formulate.
So i'll try to describe as detailed as possible my problem/question.
1 have 2 models.
Category
Product
On my product edit page i render a tree (jstree) with categories, for each category the product belongsTo the node of the tree needs to be checked.
My current approach is in the categoryResource i check if the category id belongs to the product, but this (of course) returns in a lot of queries as per category a query is fired to determine if the category belongs to the product.
public function toArray($request)
{
// got a product id?
if (request('product_id')) {
$categories = Product::findOrFail(request('product_id'))->categories->pluck('id');
}
return [
'checked' => !is_null($categories) && $categories->contains($this->id)
];
}
Other solution would be to load product categories in the controller and loop rebuild the 'resource' but this just doesn't feel right and also i need to be build recursive stuff (for child categegories) which Resource model can already handle.
Anyone got a more proper and solid solution?
If more information is required i'm happy to oblige :)
i need to create a filtered search based on different paramnters chosen by a user. So, for example, my app is a property app. I want them to be able to define the county, town, max,min bedrooms ect from a dropdown list and press search, and this returns all the properties that match the criteria.
How do I go about doing this? I can't find any tutorials online, but maybe I'm not phrasing it right.
Here is an image of what I'm after from a UI point of view.
https://imgur.com/a/YEEqt
The following is an easy to go solution considering your experience.
Create a new controller or a method in an existing one.
First create a simple form (method GET) in blade that will return predefined values from simple hidden fields
Create a new GET route in which the form must be submitted and link it to the controller method that you created
In your controller method get the submitted form data from your request, make the correct queries and return the blade template file that contains the form with the results
Modify blade template to show results
Finally replace the hidden fields with selects drop-downs and modify your controller in order to populate them
You can make the form submission process and the select drop-down fields population asynchronous but based on your experience with Laravel it should be hard. Following the steps above will do your job.
Always take a look to the official documentation. You will ge a lot of help from there.
You can try like this for filter options in your controller
public function filter(Request $request, Property $property)
{
$property = $property->newQuery();
// Search for a property based on country
if ($request->has('country')) {
return $property->where('country', $request->input('country'));
}
// Search for a property based on their area.
if ($request->has('areas')) {
return $property->where('areas', $request->input('areas'));
}
// Search for a property based on max_price
if ($request->has('max_price')) {
return $property->where('price','<=', $request->input('max_price'));
}
// Continue for all of the filters.
return $property->get();
}
For more info refer the link
In test project I try to learn specification pattern and how use it in online store. Products specifications grouped by category e.g.: Color(blue, withe, etc), Height(100cm, 200cm, etc). Specifications added to product based on selected category in product. In all articles that I have read, specifications in the action are known as parameters. But if specifications added dynamically in my test project, I don't know how purse it. For instance, I have this controller action:
public ActionResult Products(string category,
string[] specificationNameValuePairs, int page = 1, int pageSize = 9,
string order = "Position, Name", string ordertype = "asc")
{
...
}
How can I bind specificationNameValuePairs in this action? Or I must redesign my project and use static specifications and for each specifications category create model for binding?
You must need to know about Url.Action method. Please check the below link, it may help.
Url Action
I wasn't able to put the write words for the Title, so I explained what I'm looking after.
Currently, I am using following ActionLink code in View.
#Html.ActionLink(#product.Name, "Index", "Product", new { id = #product.Id }, null)
This code redirects to following action method in Product Controller
public ActionResult Index(int id)
{
Product product = pe.Products.Where(p => p.Id == id).First();
ViewBag.Title = product.Name;
ViewBag.Description = product.MetaDescription;
ViewBag.Keywords = product.MetaKeywords;
return View(product);
}
Now, what i want: instead of mysite.com/Product/Index/22 , my URL should be something like mysite.com/Product/Apple-ipad.
I know, I can use product Name instead of Id and pass it to the action method. But, this way i think that the queries will get slower since Id field is indexed but Name isn't. Is this the only option at my disposal. Let me know how will you handle this requirement.
Use the product name in the route instead of ID and put a nonclustered index on the product name column in the database.
That way you don't get a performance hit on the select (although you will get one on the insert/update/delete but I suspect those happen far less than the selects).
CREATE INDEX IX_[index_name]
ON [schema].[table_name] ([column_name]);
Another way I've seen used in a few places is using both the name and the id like mysite.com/Product/Apple-ipad/22. The name is not actually used by the code, and it's just there for SEO. One big disadvantage of this is that someone that does not like your site can put various urls leading to the same content all over the internet for google to find. Google doesn't like that so your site is penalized and you are worse than before.
I'm building a site and am considering using areas to cover a similar scenario to the one I'm about to describe.
I currently have a site with 4 sections, lets call these Create, Manage, Section 3 and Section 4
Create and Manage are actions on the domain object that I'm working with. The domain object has a number of collections of sub objects that relate to it. These need to be created and managed as well.
I am using Products as an example so as not to give anything away but it doesn't quite fit the same domain - so please don't say "Why don't you have a Products section"
My current implementation has a ManageController which has Actions like Categories, Category, ProductsForCategory
I'm thinking I need areas, however, some URLs will need to be scoped so I want
/Manage/Category/8/Products
/Manage/Category/8/Product/1
Is this possible using Areas? Do I need to set up new routing rules?
Would my CategoryController have 2 parameters on the action e.g.
public ActionResult Product(int categoryId, int productId)
{
//get category
var cat = GetCategory(categoryId);
//get product
var product = cat.Products.SingleOrDefault(x=>x.Id == productId);
if(product == null)
return RedirectToAction("Index","Manage");
return View(product);
}
Then I would have a routing rule that passed in the category id?
Is my thinking on this correct?
This is possible with Areas.. although it's my understanding that areas are mainly recommended for structuring your code into a meaningful folder structure to deal with large-ish MVC apps, whereas it looks like you want to use it for achieving nested routes?
To map your nested route to /Manage/Category/8/Product/1 you could create your "Manage" area, and then add a route like so:
context.MapRoute(null,
"Manage/{controller}/{categoryId}/{action}/{id}",
new
{
action = "Product",
id = "1",
categoryId = "2"
});
You then create an action method to accept those params:
public ActionResult Product(string categoryId, string id)
However, your question talks about aggregate DDD roots, so I suspect I've only answered part of the question?