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How can I display product attributes in the catalog list view, I’m using

for further info, here is the full code block from template/catalog/product/list.phtml

I’m trying to figure out the same thing.  The only thing that I’ve managed to show up on the list is the sku by putting

in app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml

sku is the name of the preinstalled attribute “sku” and one would think that <?=$_product->getATTRIBUTENAME() ?> would work… but it doesn’t.

http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to/add-attributes-to-product-grid apparently, but i cant get it to work…

scratch that, got it to work. the “getMyAttribute()” they refer to in the link i just posted should actually be “getmy_attribute()”

I’m not sure about Nikkstocks last post...I thought the “myattribute” part of “getmyattribute” depends on what your attribute is called. So if the attribute I want to display is “catalogdescription”, I should use “getcatalogdescription”?

I’m having some problems getting this work - can you share what you did to get it running?

Looking through the wiki file’s revision history, it looks like they’ve updated that document since you posted, and fixed the problem you were talking about.

I still don’t seem to be able to get this to work though. Can anyone confirm that using getCatalogDescription should work fine, given that my attribute is called CatalogDescription?

Ok, got it working . I was adding it to the list view instead of the grid view...doh!

Can you please do a little step-by-step presentation with exact locations where you put the code snippets? Thanks a lot.

I can’t get it to work.

As the wiki page is slightly confusing I’d like to clear things up a bit. There are actually two things you have to do:
1. Update your xml
2. Update your template
Lets look at an example for an attribute called “Manufacturer”.

In catalog.xml I changed this

In template/catalog/product/list.phtml you can then display the attribute value like this (be sure to add the output to the correct list layout, ie. ‘list’ or ‘grid’):

Hope that helps.

Firstly I added new method to class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View_Attributes:

Then I’ve added to /app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/product/list.phtml this:

I hope it will help you.

As asn extension to this, how would I display a custom attribute in a different format?

i.e
I have a custom attribute called publish_date which is a date field.

I want to show this in the category list, so I edited…
/app/design/frontend/default/default/template/catalog/product/list.phtml

and added. <?php echo $_product->getpublish_date()?>

This displays the attribute but shows it as for example 2008-1-12 00:00:00

In the product page itself under Additional Information, this is re-written to display as Jan 12, 2008 when in the product view page. Any suggestions how I can achieve this much nicer format?

Thanks
Gary

skeptic35 - 02 February 2009 01:33 AM

As the wiki page is slightly confusing I’d like to clear things up a bit. There are actually two things you have to do:
1. Update your xml
2. Update your template
Lets look at an example for an attribute called “Manufacturer”.

In catalog.xml I changed this

<block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list" template="catalog/product/list.phtml">
        <block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

to that (added the action tag)

<block type="catalog/product_list" name="product_list" template="catalog/product/list.phtml">
        <action method="addAttribute"><attribute>Manufacturer</attribute></action>
        <block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">

basically what you do here is make your Attribute known in the product list.

In template/catalog/product/list.phtml you can then display the attribute value like this (be sure to add the output to the correct list layout, ie. ‘list’ or ‘grid’):

<?php echo $_product->getAttributeText('Manufacturer') ?>

That is in case your Attribute is one with selectable values. If it was a plain text attribute you’d use

<?php echo $_product->getManufacturer() ?>

Hope that helps.

Hi,

I have followed your guide exactly like this:

In list.phtml

and in catalog.xml

I have also updated “Visible on Catalog Pages on Front-end” in the admin panel.
But it is not working somehow, none of the 4 echo is printing anything. What have I possibility done wrong? Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Dunno. Maybe you added your echos to the wrong part of list.phtml. There are different parts for the different layout types (list or grid).

Hello,

i have the same problem

i do exactly the http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/how-to/add-attributes-to-product-grid but doesn’t work for me.

i view a lot of post on the forum but i don’t find the good one.

Please help me

Hi all,

I was just trying to see if we could display a custom attribute in the product detail view: not just the value, but th label and type as well. For instance, I we have a dropdown select attribute, can we display that dropdown for the customer to select in place of a custom product option?

If so, what about a text field and text area? Thanks for the replies at your earliest convenience! Normally with attributes their value (defined in the product) is what gets displayed. But we would like to use this in place of a custom product option. Possible?

It all looks right, so I’ll try this out soon.

Thanks foe the dialogue!

maarlin - 11 February 2009 11:02 AM

Firstly I added new method to class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View_Attributes:

function setProduct($productId)
    {
        if (!Mage::registry('product') && $productId) {
            $this->_product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($productId);
        }
    }

Then I’ve added to /app/design/frontend/*/*/template/catalog/product/list.phtml this:

<table class="info">
 <?php
 $add = new Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_View_Attributes();
 $add->setProduct($_product->getId());
 $_additional = $add->getAdditionalData();
 ?>
 <?php foreach ($_additional as $_data): ?>
        <tr>
            <th><?php echo $_data['label'] ?></th>
            <td><?php echo $_data['value'] ?></td>
        </tr>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
 </table>

I hope it will help you.

I thought the point of the module ext was not to modify any of the core code?