Magento – How to use Different units for Magento 1.9.2.2

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We recently start a store which includes grocery, clothing, and jewelry on this when I upload product for grocery and other we facing a problem. All product weight are considering Kgs or Lbs but we are using Oz, Kgs, Lbs, packets and grams for grocery.

My question is: How to change weight units for a different product, How to assign particular weight unit for products?

Is there any extension or have any customization need to do for Backend.
and one more question is If I change weight units How to consider Units for shipping?

Best Answer

I guess there would be some extention for your need but i just let you know my opinion without extension. First of all, you need to add attribute. Go to Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attributes.

And you can add new attribute you would use for weight unit and you can edit some options on Attribute Information > Manage Label/Option. You can add Oz, Kgs, Lbs, packets and grams for grocery.

And then, go to Catalog > Attributes > Manage Attribute Sets and make 'Grocery' attribute. Then, you can add attribute you need.

Or,you can change the property of weight attribute like text input. There is a way to write unit directly for each product.

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Displaying Width, Depth, and Height with Dropdown for Units of Measure in Magento 1.9

I wouldn't go about using a widget but maybe create a block that is included on the product detail page. In the block you output the 3 attributes and a dropdown with the units switcher and use Javascript to convert the attribute values.

so... In your templates layout local.xml

[...]
<catalog_product_view>
   <reference name="product.info">
      <block type="catalog/product_view" name="unit_convert" template="catalog/product/view/units.phtml"/>
   </reference>
</catalog_product_view>
[...]

In your templates template directory catalog/product/view/units.phtml

<?php
$_product = $this->getProduct();
// attribute sizes are by default CM
?>
<span id="unit_width"><?php echo $_product->getData('width');?></span>
<span id="unit_height"><?php echo $_product->getData('height');?></span>
<span id="unit_length"><?php echo $_product->getData('length');?></span>

<select id="unit_convert">
   <option value="cm">CM</option>
   <option value="in">IN</option>
</select>

<script type="text/javascript">
$("unit_covert").invoke('observe', 'change', function() {
    var ratio = ($("unit_covert").getValue() == 'cm') ? 1 : 0.393701 ;

    $('unit_width').innerHTML = parseFloat($('unit_width').innerHTML) * ratio;
    // repeat for other sizes
});
</script>

Small disclaimer, I kinda suck at javascript so please recheck it and don't put it on a live environment right away

Magento – How to add extra attributes specific to a product

I had to solve the same issue. The way I handled it was to create tokenized strings in a single attribute and parse them accordingly.

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