[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Profile for dda ## [![dda's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") **[ Offline](/forum/user/32554-dda)** - **User Type:** User - **Register Date:** 11 May 2014 - **Last login:** 7 years 7 months ago - **Time Zone:** UTC +0:00 - **Local Time:** 10:44 - **Posts:** 39 - **Profile views:** 109 - **Gender:** Unknown - **Birthdate:** Unknown - Posts # dda's recent posts (39 messages ) All Since last visit 4 Hours 8 Hours 12 Hours 24 Hours 48 Hours Week Month Year All Since last visit 4 Hours 8 Hours 12 Hours 24 Hours 48 Hours Week Month Year | [ ](#forumbottom) | Subject | Replies / Views | Last Post | [ ](#forumtop) | |---|---|---|---|---| | [](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304957) | [PHP to get product name for a form field on product page](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304957 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.3 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.3 -- PHP version -- : 7 I need to put a contact form on product pages so a person can submit a contact request regarding the product. For user convenience I want to automatically insert the product name into a field in the contact form. I am trying to use this to get the product name: $productName = hikashop_get('product_name'); echo $productName; It does't return anything and no error occurs on the page. What am I doing wrong?") Category: [Install & Update](/forum/25-install-update "Having an installation or update issue? You will probably find some help here.") Topic started 7 years 7 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304958 "Hi, The link you gave on your pm is not a product page. It's a category page. It displays a listing of the products of a category. And the id in the URL is the id of a category, not of a product. So the first line of my code, which gets the id in the URL actually uses that category id as a product id. I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Since it's a listing of products of a category, the list of the products is not available outside of the view files displaying the products listing. If you add your code in the listing_img_title file of the product view via the menu Display>Views and change that first line to: $product_id = $this->row->product_id; then you'll get the product name of the current product for each product displayed on the listing. But since the product data is already loaded there, you could simply do: echo $this->row->product_name; PS: Please use instead our contact form and include a link to this thread in your message: www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html") 7 years 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:3597 | [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304958 "Hi, The link you gave on your pm is not a product page. It's a category page. It displays a listing of the products of a category. And the id in the URL is the id of a category, not of a product. So the first line of my code, which gets the id in the URL actually uses that category id as a product id. I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Since it's a listing of products of a category, the list of the products is not available outside of the view files displaying the products listing. If you add your code in the listing_img_title file of the product view via the menu Display>Views and change that first line to: $product_id = $this->row->product_id; then you'll get the product name of the current product for each product displayed on the listing. But since the product data is already loaded there, you could simply do: echo $this->row->product_name; PS: Please use instead our contact form and include a link to this thread in your message: www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 7 months ago | | [](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304906) | [PHP to get product name for a form field on product page](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304906 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.3 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.3 -- PHP version -- : 7 I need to put a contact form on product pages so a person can submit a contact request regarding the product. For user convenience I want to automatically insert the product name into a field in the contact form. I am trying to use this to get the product name: $productName = hikashop_get('product_name'); echo $productName; It does't return anything and no error occurs on the page. What am I doing wrong?") Category: [Install & Update](/forum/25-install-update "Having an installation or update issue? You will probably find some help here.") Topic started 7 years 7 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304958 "Hi, The link you gave on your pm is not a product page. It's a category page. It displays a listing of the products of a category. And the id in the URL is the id of a category, not of a product. So the first line of my code, which gets the id in the URL actually uses that category id as a product id. I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Since it's a listing of products of a category, the list of the products is not available outside of the view files displaying the products listing. If you add your code in the listing_img_title file of the product view via the menu Display>Views and change that first line to: $product_id = $this->row->product_id; then you'll get the product name of the current product for each product displayed on the listing. But since the product data is already loaded there, you could simply do: echo $this->row->product_name; PS: Please use instead our contact form and include a link to this thread in your message: www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html") 7 years 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:3 Views:3597 | [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/897146-php-to-get-product-name-for-a-form-field-on-product-page#304958 "Hi, The link you gave on your pm is not a product page. It's a category page. It displays a listing of the products of a category. And the id in the URL is the id of a category, not of a product. So the first line of my code, which gets the id in the URL actually uses that category id as a product id. I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Since it's a listing of products of a category, the list of the products is not available outside of the view files displaying the products listing. If you add your code in the listing_img_title file of the product view via the menu Display>Views and change that first line to: $product_id = $this->row->product_id; then you'll get the product name of the current product for each product displayed on the listing. But since the product data is already loaded there, you could simply do: echo $this->row->product_name; PS: Please use instead our contact form and include a link to this thread in your message: www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 7 months ago | | [](/forum/26-product-category-display/897081-default-product-image-is-shown-in-categories-listing-products#304624) | [Default product image is shown in Categories listing products](/forum/26-product-category-display/897081-default-product-image-is-shown-in-categories-listing-products#304624 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.0.3 -- Joomla version -- : 3.9.3 -- PHP version -- : 7 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Opera I have a categories listing menu item. I want people to click on a category, to be able to see the products with images within the category then click on a product. Within a category the default product image is shown, not the real product image (the real image shows correctly in the product details page). Under System=>Configuration=>Images Thumbnail is selected. In the menu item configuration under Product Options=>Item Layout I have Image and title selected. What am I missing?") Category: [Product & Category Display](/forum/26-product-category-display "Questions about product and category display. You can't find how to make Hikashop looks incredible? The answer is here!") Topic started 7 years 7 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/897081-default-product-image-is-shown-in-categories-listing-products#304668 "Hi, I had a look at the pages of your website but couldn't come up with any reason why it would do that. Could you provide a backend and a FTP access so that we could check on the issue deeper ? Please use the contact form with a link to this thread to provide private information: www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html") 7 years 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:435 | [Last Post](/forum/26-product-category-display/897081-default-product-image-is-shown-in-categories-listing-products#304668 "Hi, I had a look at the pages of your website but couldn't come up with any reason why it would do that. Could you provide a backend and a FTP access so that we could check on the issue deeper ? Please use the contact form with a link to this thread to provide private information: www.hikashop.com/support/contact-us.html") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 7 years 7 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/885182-cancellable-orders-statuses-and-paypal-recurring#243579) | [Cancellable orders statuses and paypal recurring](/forum/29-payment-methods/885182-cancellable-orders-statuses-and-paypal-recurring#243579 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.6.3 -- Joomla version -- : 3.5.1 -- PHP version -- : 5.5.12 I want to use Cancellable orders statuses (set to Created) to provide order cancelling feature to custmers on their user profile. The cancellation of the order works fine. Will this also cancel the actual recurring payments?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 10 years 4 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/885182-cancellable-orders-statuses-and-paypal-recurring#243589 "Hi, No, it won't cancel the recurring payments. This requires the customer to do it in his paypal account.") 10 years 4 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:1 Views:835 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/885182-cancellable-orders-statuses-and-paypal-recurring#243589 "Hi, No, it won't cancel the recurring payments. This requires the customer to do it in his paypal account.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 10 years 4 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491) | [Paypal recurring orders/payments](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.5.12 I am trying to setup recurring orders/payments with the Hikashop Paypal Recurring Payment Plugin. How does the recurring payment functionality get applied to orders? Is it possible to provide users some sort of option to select whether they want to make an order recurring?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 10 years 9 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "Ok Thanks. Sorry for vagueness in the question. Nonetheless, your answer told me what I wanted to know.") 10 years 9 months ago by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") | Replies:4 Views:1091 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "Ok Thanks. Sorry for vagueness in the question. Nonetheless, your answer told me what I wanted to know.") by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") 10 years 9 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226255) | [Paypal recurring orders/payments](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226255 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.5.12 I am trying to setup recurring orders/payments with the Hikashop Paypal Recurring Payment Plugin. How does the recurring payment functionality get applied to orders? Is it possible to provide users some sort of option to select whether they want to make an order recurring?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 10 years 9 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "Ok Thanks. Sorry for vagueness in the question. Nonetheless, your answer told me what I wanted to know.") 10 years 9 months ago by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") | Replies:4 Views:1091 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "Ok Thanks. Sorry for vagueness in the question. Nonetheless, your answer told me what I wanted to know.") by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") 10 years 9 months ago | | [](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226138) | [Paypal recurring orders/payments](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226138 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.5.12 I am trying to setup recurring orders/payments with the Hikashop Paypal Recurring Payment Plugin. How does the recurring payment functionality get applied to orders? Is it possible to provide users some sort of option to select whether they want to make an order recurring?") Category: [Payment Methods](/forum/29-payment-methods "Discussions about the different payment methods for Hikashop") Topic started 10 years 9 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "Ok Thanks. Sorry for vagueness in the question. Nonetheless, your answer told me what I wanted to know.") 10 years 9 months ago by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") | Replies:4 Views:1091 | [Last Post](/forum/29-payment-methods/881491-paypal-recurring-orders-payments#226491 "Ok Thanks. Sorry for vagueness in the question. Nonetheless, your answer told me what I wanted to know.") by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") 10 years 9 months ago | | [](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223841) | [Minimum $ spend before checkout is allowed](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223841 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.2 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.4.12 I need to create a mechanism that compares a users cart total to a specific amount. If their total is less than the specific amount links checkout are disabled and a redirect is triggered if they try to got to the checkout manually. I am struggling to figure out/find what variable holds the cart total. An help as to what it is would be appreciated.") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 10 years 10 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223841 "Thats what I need thanks.") 10 years 10 months ago by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:523 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223841 "Thats what I need thanks.") by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") 10 years 10 months ago | | [](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223690) | [Minimum $ spend before checkout is allowed](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223690 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.2 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.4.12 I need to create a mechanism that compares a users cart total to a specific amount. If their total is less than the specific amount links checkout are disabled and a redirect is triggered if they try to got to the checkout manually. I am struggling to figure out/find what variable holds the cart total. An help as to what it is would be appreciated.") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 10 years 10 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223841 "Thats what I need thanks.") 10 years 10 months ago by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:523 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/881019-minimum-spend-before-checkout-is-allowed#223841 "Thats what I need thanks.") by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") 10 years 10 months ago | | [](/forum/31-development/880143-modify-donation-plugin-to-add-to-price#218806) | [Modify donation plugin to add to price](/forum/31-development/880143-modify-donation-plugin-to-add-to-price#218806 "-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.5 -- Joomla version -- : 3.2.4 -- PHP version -- : 5.4.32 Is it possible to modify the donation plugin so that it will add to the price of a parent product instead of overriding it? Any suggestions would be appreciated.") Category: [Development](/forum/31-development "If you are developping a plugin for Hikashop or customizing our component, this is the board to be.") Topic started 10 years 11 months ago, by [dda](/forum/user/32554-dda "View dda's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/31-development/880143-modify-donation-plugin-to-add-to-price#218810 "Hello, Sure, you'll just have to check in your new donation plugin that your product HAVE a price, and if it does, you'll just have to add the "Amount" custom field value to it's price.") 10 years 11 months ago by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") | Replies:1 Views:809 | [Last Post](/forum/31-development/880143-modify-donation-plugin-to-add-to-price#218810 "Hello, Sure, you'll just have to check in your new donation plugin that your product HAVE a price, and if it does, you'll just have to add the "Amount" custom field value to it's price.") by [Mohamed Thelji](/forum/user/6861-mohamed-thelji "View Mohamed Thelji's Profile") 10 years 11 months ago | [](/forum/topics/feed/mode-topics?format=feed&type=rss) Time to create page: 0.168 seconds [Powered by](/forum/credits) [Kunena Forum](https://www.kunena.org) [](#top)