Hi David,
I'm trying to display the min and max prices for a product. This is what I have on product.php
<?php if ($product["numMerchants"] > 1): ?>
<div itemprop='offers' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/AggregateOffer'>
<?php print translate("Prices"); ?>: <span itemprop='lowPrice'><?php print $mainProduct["minPrice"]." ".$config_currencyHTML; ?></span> - <span itemprop='highPrice'><?php print $mainProduct["maxPrice"]." ".$config_currencyHTML; ?></span>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
<?php print translate("Price"); ?>: <?php print $mainProduct["price"]." ".$config_currencyHTML; ?>
<?php endif; ?>but for now, I only get 1 price (the cheapest one), even if numMerchants > 1
Could you please share your enlightened opinion about this ?
Thank you !
Bak
Hi David,
I have just included the above code in my product.php page. The lowest and highest prices work as expected but nothing is displayed for number of merchants? I wondered if you might be able to suggest what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
The above code doesn't display the number of merchants at all, it's only used to access the highest price. However, it is easy to display - wherever you want to display the merchant count on your product page (html/product.php), use something like:
Comparing <?php print count($product["products"]); ?> prices!Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Thanks for your quick response. I have tried the code above and it returns total products fine but when I modify it to return total merchants I just get '0' displayed? Am I correct I my understanding that I just need to change the code to the line below to return the total merchants quoting for the product in focus?
Comparing
<?php
print count($product["merchant"]);
?>
Additionally, please could you tell me if it's possible to split the results returned by the above using the test below so that I can display the results split into type1, type2 and type3 products?
I tried to add the code to product.php but just got errors...
<?php
foreach($prices["products"] as $product)
{
if ($product["paymonthly"]=="yes")
{
$type = 1;
}
elseif ($product["payg"]=="yes")
{
$type = 2;
}
elseif ($product["simo"]=="yes")
{
$type = 3;
}
$prices[$type][] = $product;
}
?>
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
In terms of counts by type and merchant, since you have separate variables rather than a single type field the best thing to do is simply to loop building up counters for each type - have a go with something like:
<?php
$paymonthlyCount = 0;
$paymonthlyMerchants = array();
$paygCount = 0;
$paygMerchants = array();
$simoCount = 0;
$simoMerchants = array();
$allMerchants = array();
foreach($prices["products"] as $p)
{
$allMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
if ($product["paymonthly"]=="yes")
{
$paymonthlyCount++;
$paymonthlyMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
}
elseif ($product["payg"]=="yes")
{
$paygCount++;
$paygMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
}
elseif ($product["simo"]=="yes")
{
$simoCount++;
$simoMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
}
}
?>
And to display, use:
<p>Pay Monthly: <?php print $paymonthlyCount; ?> offers from <?php print count($paymonthlyMerchants); ?> merchants</p>
<p>PAYG: <?php print $paygCount; ?> offers from <?php count($paygMerchants); ?> merchants</p>
<p>SIM Only: <?php print $simoCount; ?> offers from <?php count($simoMerchants); ?> merchants</p>Total number of offers is as before, and from the above loop total number of unique merchants is count($allMerchants) - e.g.
<p>Comparing <?php print count($product["products"]); ?> offers from <?php count($allMerchants); ?> merchants</p>Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Hope you had a good weekend. Thanks for your response.
I have added the code to product.php but the results show 0 offers from 0 merchants? I wondered if you could suggest how I might resolve this?
Additionally, please could you confirm how I can display the lowest and highest prices in context for the three types?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
Code above was based on being included in includes/prices.php. To include in html/product.php instead, simply REPLACE this line:
foreach($prices["products"] as $p)...with:
foreach($product["products"] as $p)To add lowest and highest price for each type, try the following, based on the previous example (and including above modification, and slightly reworked:
<?php
$paymonthlyCount = 0;
$paymonthlyProducts = array();
$paymonthlyMerchants = array();
$paygCount = 0;
$paygProducts = array();
$paygMerchants = array();
$simoCount = 0;
$simoProducts = array();
$simoMerchants = array();
$allMerchants = array();
foreach($prices["products"] as $p)
{
$allMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
if ($product["paymonthly"]=="yes")
{
$paymonthlyProducts[] = $p;
$paymonthlyMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
}
elseif ($product["payg"]=="yes")
{
$paygProducts[] = $p;
$paygMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
}
elseif ($product["simo"]=="yes")
{
$simoProducts[] = $p;
$simoMerchants[$p["merchant"]] = TRUE;
}
}
$paymonthlyCount = count($paymonthlyProducts);
$simoCount = count($simoProducts);
$paygCount = count($paygProducts);
function pcmp($a, $b)
{
if ($a["price"] == $b["price"]) {
return 0;
}
return ($a["price"] < $b["price"]) ? -1 : 1;
}
usort($paymonthlyProducts,"pcmp");
usort($paygProducts,"pcmp");
usort($simoProducts,"pcmp");
$paymonthlyMin = $paymonthlyProducts[0]["price"];
$paymonthlyMax = $paymonthlyProducts[($paymonthlyCount-1)]["price"];
$paygMin = $paygProducts[0]["price"];
$paygMax = $paygProducts[($paygCount-1)]["price"];
$simoMin = $simoProducts[0]["price"];
$simoMax = $simoProducts[($simoCount-1)]["price"];
?>
And then you can print any of the derived variables as normal, e.g.
<p>Pay Monthly deals from <?php print $paymonthlyMin; ?> to <?php print $paymonthlyMax; ?></p>Note the above becomes quite repetitive due to having multiple type = ("yes" or "no") fields rather than type = ("paymonthly" or "payg" or "simo"). If you're close to your goal for your product / price comparison table for this project it won't be worth changing the structure now, but if you were looking to add quite a bit more dependent functionality let me know and I'll help you restructure the product array into a single rather than multiple type fields...
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Thanks for the quick response. Thank you also for your kind offer to help me modify the code. I have almost met my goal for this site so will probably leave the code as is.
I have changed the code but it does not appear to work and the error below is displayed:
"Fatal error: Cannot redeclare cmp() (previously declared in {code saved}"
Would be grateful if you could suggest how this might be resolved.
Thanks in advance.,
Regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
No problem!
Regarding cmp() redeclaration - in the new code just search and replace each instance of "cmp" with "pcmp" (as I've done above) that will be all you need to do...
Cheers,
David.
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Hi Bak,
The summary values (numMerchants, minPrice etc.) are not present in product results but they can be easily derived from $product["products"], have a go with the following:
<?php if (count($product["products"]) > 1): ?><div itemprop='offers' itemscope itemtype='http://schema.org/AggregateOffer'>
<?php print translate("Prices"); ?>: <span itemprop='lowPrice'><?php print $product["products"][0]["price"]." ".$config_currencyHTML; ?></span> - <span itemprop='highPrice'><?php print $product["products"][(count($product["products"])-1)]["price"]." ".$config_currencyHTML; ?></span>
</div>
<?php else: ?>
<?php print translate("Price"); ?>: <?php print $mainProduct["price"]." ".$config_currencyHTML; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
Summary of the change, the number of merchants is returned by:
count($product["products"])
Lowest price:
$product["products"][0]["price"]
Highest price:
$product["products"][(count($product["products"])-1)]["price"]
Cheers!
David.
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