feature requests: rely on product titles (not IDs), cart/display hooks

[johnmontfx]

First off — I’m really loving this plugin. We moved from using e-junkie and their clunky flash UI to this and haven’t looked back. The S3 support is great as is most everything. I’d love to add a couple of suggestions to the feature request list

One is to rely more on product names in the admin UI than having to enter IDs. For instance, in “Manage Customers” you have to enter an ID number, which relies on going back and forth between pages. It would be more user friendly to rely on a pulldown menu with the various product names available. I understand that there can be potentially long lists of IDs which could prove problematic. To solve this, possibly there could be an ID field AND a pulldown list so you could choose either — or there could be a filter mechanism for the popup. I’ve done both in web apps and they seem to work ok.

The second, which is actually a bigger request imho, is that I would love to have a hook where I could add my own shopping cart and product html code. Due to layout considerations, I’ve had to edit the original plugin .php files, which I generally never like to do. But I couldn’t find a way around this. If I could add things like fancy_custom10 that wouldn’t conflict with future additions, that would be great.

Thanks for listening — but most of all thanks for making such a great product available to the community

[admin]

We do have some shortcodes and functions available that can be used to create your own display. You can even create your own little plugin/addon that uses this functions and then style the output however you want to. Here is a post that explains more on this:

https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/dynamically-create-custom-product-displays-using-product-detail-shortcodes

Let me know if that helps with making your own customized product display template.

For internal use/identification, it is always best to use an ID value rather than title. There are a few technical advantage for this which is why we use the ID value and not the name/title. The values in the manage customers area get populated automatically after a payment. These values are not something you manually enter in most cases so we don’t have a lot of options there. I can look into adding a pulldown option for the ID values.

[johnmontfx]

Thanks for the response on the — I didn’t see that forum topic, which is very close to what I need. One thing, however, is that I’d like to do is pull the listing and have it loop through all the products, ala:

<?php echo show_wp_eStore_category_products_fancy(2,1); ?>

Is there a way to hook into this?

I totally understand using the id under the hood — glad you use good programming habits to keep the product name separate from the ID. All I meant to suggest was from an admin user standpoint, it would be nice to be presented with the product names in the form (which would have product IDs as the value in the form).

Thanks again!

[admin]

I see what you mean. If you explain what kind of hook you want for this (give an example maybe) then I will look into it.

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