Magento – Magento : How to Customize Product Custom Options

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I need to display my product's custom options in front end, in specific way. For example, I would like tabulate in two columns, drop down fields of my custom options and add some header text on another columns for front end.
I considered combination with static block might work but so far.
I couldn't find any related information.

Are there any ideas on how I can do this?

Best Answer

You first build html and then you can use the following code to get custom options:

$ProductId=1;
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($ProductId); 
if ( $product->getData('has_options') && ($product->getTypeID() == 'simple') ) {
           foreach ($product->getOptions() as $o) {
              //$o->getOptionId();
              //$o->getTitle();
              //$o->getType();
              //$o->getIsRequire();
              //$o->getType();
              //$o->getValues();

           }
       }

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Magento – Can Magento handle complex product options and bundles? (and some other specific needs)

One thing I will say right off the bat is that Magento handles some fairly complex product configurations. Your specific needs might not be supported 100% out of the box as you expect, but generally you can bend some rules to allow Magento to handle your needs without a lot of customization.

That said, if you consider customizing certain parts of the store (you will need developers for this), you will be able to meet your needs however you like. The main benefit over Volusion or other hosted services is that you control the code and you decide what your store is capable of. Of course, you also accept a larger responsibility in managing your store and code base.

When it comes to customer types, Magento has a couple generic "Retail" and "Wholesale" customer classes built in, but you are welcome to add additional classes to meet your needs. There are some fairly robust mechanisms available out of the box to customize pricing based on customer class, but again, this might not meet your needs 100%, but it will likely come close enough to be acceptable (or, again, you can always customize).

If you decide Magento doesn't fit your needs, I don't think you're going to find another platform that will do any better without heavy customization. On top of that, anything that is a hosted solution (like Volusion) leaves you at their mercy for new features. I highly suggest either installing a sandbox store (you may need help setting this up if you are not familiar with typical sysadmin tasks) or fiddling around with a demo store (it looks like Magento removed the CE demo store but I'm sure you can find other demo stores floating around the web).

Magento – Magento event to calculate price when custom option text field changes

I used for this usecase sales_quote_collect_totals_before:

/**
 * Set prices
 *
 * @param Varien_Event_Observer $observer
 */
public function salesQuoteCollectTotalsBefore(Varien_Event_Observer $observer)
{
    /* @var $quote Mage_Sales_Model_Quote */
    $quote = $observer->getQuote();
    foreach ($quote->getAllItems() as $quoteItem) {
        if (is your product of choice) {
            /* @var $quoteItem Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Item */
            $product = $quoteItem->getProduct();
            $price = whatever formula you want to use;
            $product->setPrice($price);
        }
    }
}

On the client side, you can just use a few lines of JS to update the price?

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