Assigning existing products type and parameters

05.03.2020

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Multiple Customfields Filter for Virtuemart v3.0.7

Much-needed filtering module and plugin for Virtuemart 2 and 3 stores

Product filter for Virtuemart 2 and 3 by custom fields. Fully compatible with Joomla 3. For Virtuemart 2 and virtuemart 3 and the new Joomla 3.8!

Your own custom field plugin with the ability to select multiple values from the product drop-down list
- No third party components! Working directly with Virtuemart 2 and 3 through the plugin system
- Search module for custom fields, categories, manufacturers with a large set of templates
- Search by price including discounts and display as a slider with active values highlighted
- AJAX update of both the module and the list of products, when changing parameters in the filter
- Sorting and managing custom field values through a user-friendly interface
- Calculation of the number of products for each parameter, depending on the already specified parameters and imitation of linked lists by hiding "zero" parameters
- Both manual binding to categories, and the ability to automatically select fields
- No changes in Virtuemart 2 and 3 code. Clean install.
- Detailed documentation with lots of screenshots

Fixed incompatibility when installing with Joomla 3.7.4 version

Requirements: ==
Joomla 2.5 and 3.x
Virtuemart 2.6.x, 2.0.12, 2.9.x, 3.x and higher

UPDATE 17/05/2017

The extension does not require any keys or licenses. Free to install without restrictions on any number of your sites (domains) and is completely open source with no third-party links!

Modern online stores require the convenience of searching for goods, unfortunately, it is not always possible to solve this problem using only product categories and the site search form, and the standard functionality of Virtuemart 2 does not have a filter in the kit. Despite this, you and I can make excellent, multifunctional filtering using an extension in the form of a component and a module called Virtuemart Custom Filters or there is a similar Chery Picker component, but personally the first one seems more convenient to me.

This extension allows us to very flexibly configure product filtering options based on standard custom fields. All that is required of us is to create an arbitrary field, assign a value to this field directly in the product card and display a filter by this field using the module. About all this, I will tell you in more detail:

Introduction to Virtuemart Custom Fields 2/3

And so, in order for the goods to be sorted by some characteristics, we need to set these characteristics for each product. To solve this problem, we use standard fields.

Virtuemart-> Products -> Custom fields → Create

And so, before creating a new field, you need to understand what they are, how they work and what settings they have.

Field type "String"

This field type allows you to specify any text or numeric value. In fact, the most running and versatile.

Field type "Integer"

Numeric field for storing integers.

Parent field type

Allows you to create a group of fields by combining them with one parent. Simply put, the parent is a folder in which we can mark up the rest of the fields. Very comfortably. For example, we created the “TVs” parent, put the “Diagonal” and “Color” fields there, now when editing the product card, select the “TVs” field type and fill in the “Diagonal” and “Color” fields.

Field type "Boolean"

Allows you to select Yes or No. For example: Keyboard backlight: Yes, Carry bag: No, etc.

Date field type

Allows you to select a date using the interactive calendar.

Field type "Time"

To be honest, I have not yet understood what kind of field it is.

Image field type

This field type allows you to display images instead of text data. Most often I use this field to display additional product colors.

Cart attribute field type

This field allows you to transfer text data to the basket. For example, a person can indicate there the desired dimensions for the manufacture of custom-made furniture.

Field type "General child view"

Displays a dropdown list of child products.

Field type "Editor"

Allows you to display any HTML data, while entering a value, a visual HTML editor is available.

Field Type "Text Area"

In fact, it does the same thing as the field above, but without a visual editor, while HTML is also supported.

Plugins field type

It displays a list of available standard and non-standard plugins that allow you to significantly extend the functionality of custom fields in Virtuemart.

Custom fields settings

header(Field name, for example "Color")
Show title(Show or not show the name next to the value, for example Color: Red or Red)
Published(everything is clear here)
Parent(I wrote about it above)
cart attribute(Should the data be transferred to the cart? For example, if you want to see what color the product was ordered in the received order, then the field should be an attribute of the cart, it also allows you to mark up the characteristic, thereby forming the final cost)
Description(everything is clear here)
Default(default field value, you can specify multiple values by separating them with a semicolon ";")
Tooltip(when hovering over a field value)
Layout Position(by default, all fields are displayed in a given place in the template, but you can create a position for displaying a particular field yourself. To do this, you need to edit the product card template /templates/your-template/html/com_virtuemart/productdetails/default.php by pasting the following code in the right place:

product->customfieldsSorted["normal"])) ( $this->position = "normal"; echo $this->loadTemplate("customfieldscontent"); )

Where “Normal” is the name of your position, it can be anything but exclusively in Latin.

Visible only to the administrator (you can limit the visibility of the field to users, thereby displaying useful information only for myself)
List (allows you to select values that are specified by default in the form of a list)

Creating Virtuemart Custom Fields 2/3

Now, let's create the fields we need, in my case I create two fields of the "String" type - this is the "Color" and "Size" fields, where I make the "Size" field an attribute of the basket.

After we have created the required fields with you, you need to assign the field values in the product editing. To do this, go to the product editing and in the "Custom fields" tab, select the required fields and assign values to them.

Now we can start installing and configuring the Virtuemart Custom Filters component and module, which will filter our products.

Installing the product filtering component and module:

Download product filter for Virtuemart 2/3 — component or fresh or even fresh
Install the whole set through the standard extension manager
Go to the "Components" → "Custom Filters" section

Settings for both component and module

We activate the fields necessary for sorting and in the "Display type" column we set the desired type of filter display for this field. In my case, I chose "select" for the "Size" field, and "checkbox" for the color field.

Now go to the module manager and find the VirtueMart Product Filter module, click and go to the settings:

We publish the module and specify the desired display position.
Then there are many settings, all of them are in Russian and there is simply no time to comment on each setting, and it will be very tedious. In my example, I left all the default settings.
Bind the module to the desired category/categories. (for this you need to create a menu with links to all categories of the store, it often happens that different filters are needed for different categories)
And the last, final setting. We need to create a menu item and bind our filter to it to display the filter results. We go to any menu, create a new item, specify “Results Page” as the type of menu item

Hello, dear readers of the blog site. In any online store (based on VirtueMart is also no exception), except for the presence of a large assortment and acceptable prices, it is important to have the possibility of advanced search by characteristics.

In other words, it will often be more convenient for the buyer, when searching for the product or product he needs, not to enter the name of a particular model in the search box (especially since he has the right not to know its exact name), but to choose a number of models that meet his requirements using a filter system.

Why you need advanced search in VirtueMart

In the drop-down lists of these filters (characteristics), you can select the parameters you need. As a result, you will receive a list that meets all your requirements. The buyer will make the final choice from the items remaining on the list after filtering by the presence of the desired characteristics.

Those. all items on this list will meet his needs and he will only have to consider their price and some other properties in order to make a final choice.

The presence of an advanced search in the online store is, perhaps, a prerequisite if you want your project to gain popularity among buyers. For example, my favorite computer discount CITYLINK bribed me not only with humane prices, but also with an ideal, from my point of view, filtering system.

Of course, it is not built on the basis of VirtueMart, but nevertheless, in our case, something similar can be organized. If you create a sufficient number of types for products and set them in accordance with the parameters with all possible valid values, then the buyer will be able to quickly find what he needed by narrowing the search area.

But in order to implement this, you need to mark all products (in any case, those that should participate in advanced search).

You can mark them by setting for each of them belonging to one or another type, and choose the most appropriate values for all available parameters that characterize this particular product or product. It sounds a little confusing for the first time, but it will be clearer if we consider all this with a specific example.

For example, it will be possible to create a product type called "Processor", then create a parameter for the type, for example, "Number of cores" and set possible values for it: "single-core", "dual-core", "quad-core", etc.

Then, in the VirtueMart admin panel, on the settings page for each product that we classify as "Processor", you will need to select a specific value for the parameter that determines the number of cores in the processor (for example, "single core" for an Atom series processor from Intel).

In addition to the "Number of cores" parameter for the "Processor" type, you can set a number of parameters with various values (for example, another "Manufacturer" with possible values "AMD" and "Intel"). A visitor to your store will be able, using an advanced search, to select "Processor" and the value of the number of cores that he needs.

Product types are analogues of sections in Joomla, and parameters are analogues of categories. Therefore, when adding types and parameters for all products, you must first create a series of them for homogeneous product groups.

For example, for an online store selling computer technology, you can create types such as processors, motherboards, video cards, monitors, printers, audio cards, etc. And then for each of them add some options. For example, for monitors, you can add parameters such as diagonal, manufacturer, production technology.

The visitor, having entered the advanced search by characteristics, will first see a list of all the types you created, and only then, having opened one of them (for example, “video cards”), he will see a list of the parameters that you set specifically for him.

A drop-down list will appear next to the name of the parameter, where the buyer of your store on VirtueMart will be able to select a specific value for each of them (for example, next to the parameter "manufacturer" for the product type "video card", you can select AMD or Nvidia from the drop-down list).

Now let's move from theory to practice. In order to add any type of product to VirtueMart, you first need to create it.

To do this, you will need to select "Products" - "List" from the menu in the admin panel of this Joomla component. On the page that opens, to create it, you need to click on the "New" button located at the top of the window.

As a result, the "Type information" page will open, on which in the "Name" field we set the name for it. The rest of the fields are optional. Then click on the "Save" button at the top of the window.

Creating product parameters and types in VirtueMart

The window for adding a type will close, but again we will need to select "Products" - "List" from the control panel menu. In the window that opens, a line will appear with the one we just created. Click on the "Show" link located in the "Parameters" column opposite the name of the one we need.

As a result, the Type Parameters window will open: its name will be displayed here. To set the parameter, you will need to click on the "New" button located at the top of the page.

In the window that opens, the "Name" field must be filled in with Latin letters and numbers, without using spaces. The fact is that this is how the table in the MySql database will be called and, therefore, the name must meet the requirements.

In the VirtueMart settings, in the "Parameter signature" field, you enter the name that the user will see when he enters this type of product during an advanced search by characteristics. For example, for "video card", the "Parameter label" field might contain the word "manufacturer".

In the "Parameter description" field, you can enter, if necessary, an explanation for it, which a visitor to your online store will see only if they move the mouse over the blue icon with an exclamation mark next to its name on the advanced search page.

In the "Sort order" field, you can define their position relative to each other on the filtering page by characteristics. By default, the new parameter appears at the end of the list, but you can make changes in this field.

From the drop-down list of the "Parameter type" field, you need to choose how it will work. The most commonly used option is the dropdown list. In this case, you will need to set all possible values for it, which the store visitor can then select from a drop-down list on the advanced search page.

All possible values (when choosing the "Drop-down list" parameter type) will need to be entered in the "Permissible values" field, separating them with a semicolon without a space. For example, for the "manufacturer" ("video card") parameter, it will be tedious to enter in the "allowed values" field:

AMD;Nvidia

If you check the box "Show valid values for a drop-down list", then the items in this list will all be visible at the same time, which is not very cool. In the "Default value" field, you can enter the value that will be visible by default in the drop-down list (in our case, it can be, for example, "amd").

To save all the settings made, you need to click on the "Save" button located at the top of the window.

The rest of the parameters for the product type in VirtueMart are set in exactly the same way. Create another type, by analogy with the one described above, go to it by selecting "Products" - "List" from the menu. In the same way as described above about creating a new parameter, click on the "Show" link opposite the name of the one you need.

In the window that opens, create a new parameter with possible values, save the changes, add another one, etc., until all products and products are covered by the types and their possible parameters.

Thus, we have prepared the base. In Joomla, in a similar way, sections and categories are first created, and only then the existing articles are placed in them.

Assigning existing products type and parameters

Now you will need to match all products and products sold in your online store with one of the types you created in order to be able to find them using advanced search.

To do this, go to the admin panel and select Products twice, and then click on the name of the one to which you will need to add a type.

In the window that opens, click on the "Add" button located at the top of this window.

On the page that opens, from the drop-down list, select the one that owns the currently edited product of your store. Then click on the "Save" button at the top of the window.

After that, you will be taken to a page with a list assigned to this product. Moreover, this product can belong to several types at once. Again, enter its settings.

Please note that in addition to the previously existing tabs on the settings page, at the very end on the right, a new tab has appeared with the name of the type to which you assigned this product. Go to this tab.

On the page that opens, you can select the parameters that correspond to this product (characterizing it). Which parameters will be displayed on this tab depends on what type you assigned it to in the previous step.

So, you will need to select from the drop-down lists, opposite the names of the parameters, those values that are comparable to it. You kind of glue tags with their characteristics in VirtueMart on products or products.

If the type for this product was chosen incorrectly, you can break the connection with it by clicking on the "Delete" button located under its name. After making all the settings on this tab, click on the "Save" button located at the top of the window.

Thus, we have prepared one product so that visitors to your store can easily find it using the advanced search by characteristics. Now, in exactly the same way, you need to do with all the remaining products - it remains only to start and finish.

To implement this plan, you go to the settings of the next product, add a type to it using the "Add" button, save the changes made, go to the settings again and on the last tab with the name of the type, select the desired values for all the parameters available there. And so we repeat for all products.

It will be difficult to do this (especially for a large number of items), but it is justified by the convenience that visitors to your online store will receive by searching through its range with the ability to filter.

We create new products in VirtueMart, already associated with the desired type

If you don't have all products added to VirtueMart yet, you can use the following method to speed up the process of associating them with a specific type.

You need to go to the admin panel and select "Products" - "List". A page will open with all the types you have already created. If this list is not yet complete, then supplement it by analogy with the one described above.

In order to create products immediately associated with a certain type, on the "List" page, in the line with the one you need, click on the "Show" link in the "Products" column.

A normal-looking page will open with a list of products sold in your store. Click to create a new one on the button of the same name located at the top of the window.

A page will open, the main difference of which from the standard one will be in an additional tab with the name of the type with which new product already connected.

You will only have to add all the data for the new product on all tabs of the admin panel, including the tab with the name, where you select the desired values for each of the parameters. In the same way, you can create all the other new products that will be associated with this, and then add new products that are associated with all the remaining types.

Adding advanced search to the website of the online store

In order for an advanced search by characteristics to be available in your online store, you.

In its settings, you need to check the box next to the "Show Product Search Field". Now in the place of the Joomla template where you have the main VirtueMart module displayed, the link "Advanced search by characteristics" will be displayed.

When a visitor clicks on this link, a page will open that lists all the filters you've created. For example, for computer topics, types can be as follows: computers, processors, motherboards, video cards, and so on. Or for photo products:

A visitor to a store based on our beloved and beloved VirtueMart, by clicking on one of the types he is interested in, will be taken to a page with a list of parameters for it. From the drop-down lists next to the name of each parameter, the store visitor will be able to select the values he needs, and then click on the "Search" button below.

As a result, a page with all products belonging to the type selected by the visitor and having the parameter values selected by the user from the drop-down lists will open.

This will significantly narrow the search for the product or product he needs. At the top of the page that meets the criteria specified by the user, there will be a button "Change settings", by clicking on which the user will be able to return to the page with a set of filters.

In general, quite convenient for the buyer and quite troublesome for you, but it's worth it, because the convenience of store visitors will result in hard cash in your pocket.

After creating an online store, the question arises about attracting visitors. One option would be to use and . I want to offer an overview video on these methods:

To increase the number of visitors from Yandex organic search results, you can create an island for your online store:

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Did our ideas about the ideal search filter for virtuemart 3 match?

Custom Filters PRO is a Joomla component and module for filtering and searching VirtueMart products. The extension has been translated into Russian. With it, you can filter products by price, manufacturer, categories, and custom fields. VirtueMart standard custom fields and Custom Fields For All component custom fields are supported. The filtering module is equipped with flexible settings, including the ability to allow or prohibit (“nofollow”) indexing of filter options links by search engines. Essentially, this way you can create "pseudo-categories" based on a product filter (only URLs with parameters). The search and filter support outputting results via AJAX or regular HTTP requests (your choice).

The review (01/30/2018) involves the Russian version of Custom Filters PRO 2.5.3 in Joomla 3.8.4, VirtueMart 3.2.12, the JM Computers and Electronics VirtueMart Store site template 1.11. Custom fields - regular VirtueMart.

The minimum system requirements for the extension are:

Joomla 3.7.1 and above a new version.
Virtuemart 3.x.
PHP 5.4.x. Tested in PHP 7.0 and 7.1 - found no problems.
MySQL 5.0.4 and newer. Tested in MySQL 5.7 and 5.5 - found no problems.

As you can see, Custom Filters PRO allows you to create and flexibly configure a high-quality VirtueMart 3 product filter and a completely normal search. I hope that this article and a video review gave an understanding of the capabilities of this extension, and this will help you determine the relevance of its use in your online store.