Creating and Displaying Custom Attribute in Magento

8:06 PM in Magento

It is easy and fast in creating and displaying custom attribute in product view. First go to Catalog-->Attributes-->Manage Attributes Then Add New Atrribute After that, go to Manage Attribute Set, then you must include you're created attribute to an attribute set. Drag the attribute from unassigned attribute to the group. If you will go to a certain product which is using that attribute set, you will see you're created attribute in the General Product Information. That's it! Now you will display the custom attribute in product view which is

app/design/frontend/default/name_of_your_theme/template/catalog/product/view.phtml.

This is for using textbox and textareas

getDisplayAttribute() ?>

If you are using underscores, you must remove theme and capitalize the next word. For example, "shoe_color", you must use this instead in calling your attribute name

getShoeColor();

if it is only one word for example attribute name: test

getTest() ?>

This for the using mulitselect and dropdowns

displayAttributeName('attribute_name') ?>

You must declare the actual name of the attribute to show multiselect or dropdown.

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Useful Magento Snippets For Your Next Project

3:04 AM in Magento, PHP, Snippets

Creating and calling custom attribute if textbox or textarea

getAttributeName() ?>

if dropdown

  getAttributeText('shirt_size') ?>

Calling Page Title Anywhere in the PHTML

getBlock('head')->getTitle(); ?>

Display Category Product in Product View

getProduct()->getCategory() ? $this->getProduct()->getCategory()->getName() : 'no category') ?>

Display Short Description

load($_item->getProductId()); echo $custom->getShortDescription(); ?>

Display Grandtotal

formatPrice(Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal()); ?>

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