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So I have added a bunch of custom attributes, and I want the title only to show up when there is a value in the custom attribute field, so for example:

When value is present, this is shown:

No Value:

Here is the code that I have put together, but its not working - anyone have any ideas?

You’re testing if the $_product is null there, not the attribute. Further more, you are echo-ing out that value first before attempting to output the “Product Benefits” header. (’echo’ in php prints anything to the HTML page so it becomes visible.)

Does ‘$_product->getProductBenefits()’ work or do you need to use ‘echo $_product->getResource()->getAttribute(’product_benefits’)->getFrontend()->getValue($_product)’ ??

Thanks for replying, Im sort of confused by your reply. Im not really sure, all I know is that the first line outputs the custom attribute, but I would like it to check to see if there is a value - and if there is nothing, then both the title and value dont show…

I figured it out, by searching the forums and finding the ideal code.

here is it:

jrutter

Where did you place this code?  I’m having a hard time, where the attributes keep showing up inside the tabs even when blank.  Screenshot here:  Im not sure where to place the code, i.e which file?

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Here’s what I altered in attributes.phtml in order to hide product attributes that have no value:

I just added the IF statement to test for a value in the attribute. Seemed simple enough.

Hope this helps others.

If you have multiple languages (or values to exclude) you can do this;

(add <?php if ($_data['value'] != 'No' && $_data['value'] != 'Nee' ): ?> plus the endif statement, watch the : )

<<<PART OF attributes.phtml in the template app dir>>>

<?php if($_additional = $this->getAdditionalData()): ?>
<h2><?php echo $this->__('Additional Information') ?></h2>
<div class="add_info_table">
<table class="data-table" id="product-attribute-specs-table">
<col width="25%" />
<col />
<tbody>
<?php foreach ($_additional as $_data): ?>
<?php if ($_data['value'] != 'No' && $_data['value'] != 'Nee' ): ?>
<tr>
<th class="label"><?php echo $this->htmlEscape($this->__($_data['label'])) ?></th>
<td class="data">: <?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_data['value'], $_data['code']) ?> </td>
</tr>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript\">decorateTable(’product-attribute-specs-table’)</script>
<?php endif;?>

<<<SCRIPT END>>>

The correct way would be to change the GetAdditionalData funtion to not return any value when value is null or return a specific value like EMPTY, then the attributes.phtml can filter out empty results, since in some cases you might want to set a value to No for a product....

sorry to say - but that’s not “beautiful”
searching for nee, no, nein, etc.. makes it hard when you enhance to more languages later. I guess the right way would be to retrieve the value of the admin store of “no” etc. But no idea how to get that one… Any hint?

It is a very bad solution indeed, but it does work, as a short term work around for my production sites,
until someone makes the effort to make a clean solution and post it ....

You can easily hide custom attribute titles, when your value is null.

Here is a simple way to do that:

http://www.xpressbangla.com/hide-attributes-from-frontend-which-values-are-not-given-from-backend-in-magento/

Did work perfectly using Tusher Khan’s link said in above post on 1.7.0.0 ver

Hi, you can hide custom attribute titles, when value is null just following the below link :

http://www.salimsazzad.com/hiding-attributes-values-from-magento-frontend-which-are-not-given-in-backend

Novusweb - 07 January 2011 12:25 PM

Here’s what I altered in attributes.phtml in order to hide product attributes that have no value:

I just added the IF statement to test for a value in the attribute. Seemed simple enough.

Hope this helps others.

It helped me, Novus! I’m now using Magento 1.7, with custom tabs on the Classic Theme from templates-master. Your code was simple and worked great. Thanks. 

Worked well...Thanks! Look forward to working with Magento. Wonderful software.

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