Product and Order Attributes

Product and Order attributes can be used in the same way that other attributes in Concrete CMS can be used, such as page attributes.

Product Attributes

Custom Product attributes are created through the Store / Products / Attributes Dashboard page, and then stored against products through their attributes tab (or programmatically assigned).

A product attribute can be output in a template, etc, by simply using:

echo $product->getAttribute('attribute_handle');

where $product is a product object. Similarly, an attribute value can be stored against a product with:

echo $product->setAttribute('attribute_handle', 'A value to set');

When outputting product attributes on Product and Product List blocks, the $product object is directly available (in the case of the Product List block it's within a loop).

If a product attribute is needing to be used in other places, such as in a shipping method, it is a case of be able to fetch the product object. For example, to loop through the products and add together values from an attribute with the handle handling_fee:

$cartItems = \Concrete\Package\CommunityStore\Src\CommunityStore\Cart\Cart::getCart();
    
$totalHandling = 0;         
foreach ($cartItems as $cartitem) {
    $product = $cartitem['product']['object'];

    $handlingFee = $product->getAttribute('handling_fee');
    $totalHandling  += floatval($handlingFee); 
}
   

In the above case, the cart items are returned as an array, with the product objects available within each item.

Order Attributes

Order attributes work the same way as product attributes, except that both the getting and setting of order attributes is handled programmatically.