Product Variants/Characteristics?

Hi everyone,

I've been using Hikashop for only about two hours, so please bear with me.

I need to show a product(towel) with various options including the folowing:

• colours as radio buttons with sample images
• fabrics for lettering as radio buttons with sample images
• text input for a name/initial

Please see the attached image which should make it clear.

I'm not sure how to approach it.

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

The fabric and color selection can be done by using characteristics.
One characteristic for colors, one for fabric with their values. You can create them via the menu Products->Characteristics.
Then, you can attach the characteristics to your product.

That will display a dropdown selection for each. So you want then to change the option "Characteristics selection method" to radio button in order to get radio buttons.

Now, by default, you won't have images displayed for the selection of characteristics as their is no option for that. If you want to do it, you will have to override the characteristic generation code via a file in your template. It requires a good knowledge of PHP. That's something we can do for a small fee if you want.

For the name/initial input, you can create custom fields of the table "item" via the menu Display->Custom fields in the Business edition of HikaShop.

Hi Nicolas,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Where do I find the characteristic generation code? (Sorry, but I still have my head clogged up with old virtuemart code!) :S

As for the fee, could you email me please? In case I get stuck.

Thanks!

The characteristic generation code is in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/types/characteristic.php

You can override it by implementing the function hikashop_characteristics_html in the file templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/html/hikashop_characteristics.php