1.3.2 Display stock levels in storefront (numbers or icons)

Hello everyone,

First of all congratulations for OpenCart, it is awesome! I am new to it since a couple weeks, and today I posted an article on my blog on how to modify OpenCart 1.3.2 to display stock of items in the storefront, as either numbers or coloured icons. I would repost a copy here, but it is far too long and there are some images included.

For those interested, you can find it here:
OpenCart: display stock levels in storefront, as numbers or colour icons, next to the price.

Examples of how products look like:





Again I repeat its my first contribution ever to OpenCart and the code might not be optimised enough, but I found that at least it does its job well. So if someone can give tips on optimising the code, it will be very appreciated and I will learn new things -> feedback appreciated!

Thanks for your interest and keep up the good work

GOOD!!!

does anyone know or have made this work in the latest version of open cart? says tested with 132 but i cannot find half the files hes talking about?

Probably because he writes "catalog/view/common/home.php" while it should be "catalog/view/common/home.tpl"?

I did it myself, but nok like this guide. I made it in the controllers, and is just passing a color variable to the template files. But my site is also a major design/code rewrite. ;-)

does anyone have a modified guide or some other easy way to change the stock levels to green yellow and red... instead of a number?

Well i can now make it kind of work.

if ($product_info['quantity'] <= 0) {
if ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '7'){
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_red.gif">'; // Product discontinued, show red.
} elseif ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '6') {
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_yellow.gif">'; // Product temporarily out of stock, show yellow.
}
} else {
if ($this->config->get('config_stock_display')) {
$this->data['stock'] = $product_info['quantity'];
} else {
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_green.gif">'; // Product in stock, show green.
}
}

if i change the code as is said, and update the images, and set the product to "2 /3 days" and the stock level to ZERO then it will show yellow. however in stock doesn't work and nor does out of stock.

have the stock ID codes changed?

ie 7 and 6?

Yeah, most likely.. Check your database. Can't remember if you can see the id's in admin, try editing the statuses and check the URL.

if ($product_info['quantity'] <= 0) {
if ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '5'){
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_red.gif">'; // Product discontinued, show red.
} elseif ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '6') {
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_yellow.gif">'; // Product temporarily out of stock, show yellow.
}
} else {
if ($this->config->get('config_stock_display')) {
$this->data['stock'] = $product_info['quantity'];
} else {
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_green.gif">'; // Product in stock, show green.
}
}

okay changed to the above, now have no stock red, and 2/3 yellow, but in stock nothing... naadaa no green... arghhhhhhh i hope someone can see the reason why and post up

Online from my phone, hard to see it all, but try deleting

yep tried that, but just an error then occurs,

T_ELSE, expecting T_Function

Yeah I just read the 'guide', don't delete that.. I'm afraid I can't help you right now. What does it say when it's supposed to be green? And what if you view the source code?

got it working !!!! yay...

if ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '5'){
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_red.gif">'; // Product discontinued, show red.
} elseif ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '6') {
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_yellow.gif">'; // Product temporarily out of stock, show yellow.
}
} else {
if ($product_info['stock_status_id'] == '7'){
$this->data['stock'] = '<img src="catalog/view/theme/default/image/stock_green.gif">'; // Product in stock, show green.
}
}