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Sun, 02/17/2008 - 11:22
 Hello, I like to add some extra fields to the products in a laptop store. For example: memory, processor type etc. Some is text field and some is checkbox. I like to store it, show it to the user, and search on it, if it is possible. How can I make it?   
The magical and wondrous CCK
The magical and wondrous CCK modules. It should already be in use on your site to provide image support for your products. Start by poking around the Content types page in the administration and add fields to your product types. If you need more product types for more differentiation, head over to Store administration > Products > Manage classes.
Re: The magical and wondrous CCK
Thanks. Later I find this. I forget to check some checkbox.
add field to product
I, too, am trying to create additional products fields for my products.
Re: add field to product
cway, did you add this field using CCK? If so, it should be on the form automatically...
Re: The magical and wondrous CCK
How can I add products field and list it just below the default products fields? Hi Lyle; Thanks in advance!
additional Products fields CCK not displaying in products grid
hi I'm getting lost in a glass of water as we say. Can you help me in understanding . hope you can support. thanks
CCK fields
I really wish that "classes" were just content-types. I feel like this would make using CCK alot easier.
Re: CCK fields
They are content types. The difference is that they're using the uc_product module to handle the default product fields. Go ahead and use CCK on any extra fields you need. Then you can use Contemplate to display all the fields any way you like.
Re: Re: CCK fields
What I mean is there is all this extra stuff. Like in order to not have shipping for a single content-type show up in the edit form, I have to make a hook_form_alter() and hide it. If I don't agree with the product model (I don't have 3 price fields for any products) and the client will be way overwhelmed by options that have nothing to do with their stock, then I have to do alot of tweaking. I think it would be awesome if it just added a content-type (using the default product fields as you say) and they were actually controllable in UI (CCK style) so I could remove fields I don't use. The ecommerce module uses "features" like this (which in my install of ubercart, there are no "features") to modularize the product model, but it's still not as cool as being able to just get rid of things that I really don't need, or change the labels in the UI, or make fields not required by clicking a checkbox. Ubercart already has a CCK dependency (correction: it suggests it's use), so it wouldn't add anything. This would mean that I could use the muriad of other CCK modules to play with the values, too, like attributes are just tokens for SKU, and a computed field for price. This would mean that I could use the UI to make crazy price adjustments like "if they order a comb, a brush is %50 off". Autonodetitle or pathauto on things like product-attributes? To do things like this now, I am copying values from CCK fields, and manipulating built-in fields in hook_cart_item() and hook_form_alter(). I think it'd be great if I didn't have that extra step for advanced stuff (unless, of course, there wasn't already a CCK way of doing it, in which case I could write a much smaller custom module, that could be used in many applications.) I mean, ubercart really great, don't get me wrong, but I have spent alot of time var_dump()'ing $form, and $item, and playing around with things, in order to change the way the product edit forms are displayed (the API reference is awesome, by the way.) I think it would save time, at least for me, if the product-classes were just content-type dumps to be used as defaults, but everything was manipulatable, and mapped to things the cart needs (like price, weight, and stock.) I guess I imagine my perfect shopping cart acting more like views (and alot of the functionality could actually be handled by views, as it is in ubercart) in that you can override frontpage and taxonomy_term in UI, to do whatever you want to it. I think if it were all built with sensible defaults (just like ubercart) it wouldn't be any harder to get going for new people, but it would be super-easy to customize (and have tons of cool features, out of the box) for anyone who has worked on a views/cck site. If the cart was just a node holder, or some sort of view, and shipping and payment was just a node-processor (all 3 using using mapping to the CCK fields that represent things like weight, price, and stock) then I wouldn't have write as much code. Maybe I'm just not understanding how ubercart works, so forgive me if I am missing something, but I am really addicted to the amount of cool stuff you can do with just CCK/Views, and this has been my only real frustration with ubercart. Other then that, I think it's perfect, and it's definitely more cohesive and easier to work with, for me, then the ecommerce module. Sorry for the rant...
Re: Adding extra fields to the product
I am using CCK to add additonal fields to the product content type. I realised that the SKU, list price, cost, and sell price are not CCK fields and therefore not manageable by CCK. I am wondering what is the best way of manipulating of the SKU field such that I am able to place the SKU field under another fieldset along with other CCK fields. Can this be done using alter form hook or do I really need to hack into the uc_product.module?
Re: Re: Adding extra fields to the product
@cway: if you're adding this with hook_form_alter(), you can change its positioning using weights. If it's simply a field to enter in a year, I'd recommend the CCK module to ya. @ystanley: in order to avoid an outright dependency on CCK, these default product fields are handled separately as you've found out. However, instead of hacking the core module, you can instead write a custom module that uses hook_form_alter() to reorganize and adjust what fields are displayed to the user.
hook_form_alter()
That's what I was explaining above. I went this route, and it works ok, I just wish that I could've done it all without having to make a hook_form_alter (I thought ubercart does depend on CCK already, but looking at the project page, it appears it only "recommended", so this makes a little more sense to me, now) Here's what I did to hide the other price fields (in a custom module): <?phpChange YOURMODULE to the name of your custom module that you put this function in, and YOURNODETYPE to the content-type for the nodes that you want to modify. I actually have to do a bunch of other stuff to the edit form (conditional pricing on options, configurable per product, etc), so I am doing some funky copying of CCK values back and forth on hook_form, and an extra _submit function to get it to work the way I want, but this should get you started. I figured out what all needed to be edited by putting a <?phpin the hook_form_alter function. As a side-note (but still related, I think) I'd like to realize my dream ecommerce solution, based on these ideas (use CCK for as much as possible, make cart more of a "glue" layer, rather then the main thing, do everything with cck/views/triggers/actions, so you can model your own cart format/flow using standard drupal tools, etc) and would love any advice from e-commerce / ubercart contributors. My target is D6, which appears to make alot of these sort of things a bit easier (triggers/actions in core, rather then requiring workflow-ng)
Re: hook_form_alter()
thank you konsumer for your post. Since not everbody is familiar with the hook-form-alter() function, here a tutorial : And here just a stupid question from a newbie. If the product node do not meet our needs, can we just replace it ? (don't shoot please)
Try this...
let's say you've got an extra CCK field called 'field_product_made_in'.To display it under your product information fieldset you can use the form_alter fx this way : function your_module_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) { Do the same for all your fields but remember that the order in which you assign them to the [base] array "IS" the order in which they appear in the form.
Drupal formfiler module as an alternative
Just for anyone else who stumbles on this thread... I've recently the formfilter module and it seems to work quite well. It allows you to hide form elements for every form through the UI, instead of creating a module just to use hook_form_alter. Since each product class is a different node type, each will have it's own form which can be controlled by formfilter. Not what you need if your doing any heavy modifications to forms, but great for just hiding a few fields.
A website where people can buy information
I want to sell content on my site. There will be a sampler of information, and then people have to buy information. How can do this. Thanks& God Bless!
Product Installation service as extra
I would like to add the option of installation to products as an extra service, would it be possible to add it during checkout similar to shipping?
Re: Product Installation service as extra
As a newbie to Ubercart I do experience the same problems as above. I have added a filed to a product. When entering the product the field is displayed there and I can enter data. The problem is how to get that specific field displayed on the cart. 
Hi, guys!
Please tell me how
Hi, guys! Please tell me how to integrate my_module content type (not cck) with ubercart functionality (add to chart button, prics etc.)
How to retrieve info from the cck field
I think the two functions envolved for the product grid are: So the question is how to retrieve information from the cck field within this two functions...
Re: Adding extra fields to the product
Any body have idea about how to add additional fields (image, description etc) for catloge (Product) listing page?
stock field
what about the stock field that already exists and yet it does not get an option to be displayed?
Out of Date?
Hi, Seems that this CCK module is out of date because apparently a lot of the CCK is now included in the core Drupal 7. Also the latest version of Ubercart does not have CCK as a recommended include. So I started looking into the core drupal fields but I can't seem to figure out how to add these newly created fields to my products or to my product classes. Can someone help me out here? Also, a note to the developers, it would be a great idea that if you want to continue growing your user base that you release some updated documentation. Please!?!
Solution
For those interested, I dug a bit deeper and found that you can add fields to a content type in Drupal. I am completely new to Drupal so all of this is a little overwhelming but if you're also stuck to do so all you have to do is go to Administration » Structure » Content types and in there you'll see that you can edit the fields for a particular content type such as "Product" or any other content types you may have. |
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