Comments on: How to create a new product type in Magento

By: Andrei Robert Rusu

Andrei Robert Rusu — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:49:48 +0000

Thanks man.
You saved me a lot of research time and other stuff .

By: Dumbrava Razvan Aurel

Dumbrava Razvan Aurel — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:06:01 +0000

Thanks Branko! I just used this in a project!

By: angelo fraietta

angelo fraietta — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:23:07 +0000

Great stuff. But how do you make renderer for the product so it shows in sales object?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:25:05 +0000

I’m looking for a way to create a new product type based on the grouped product too, but with the abilty to group configurable products. Any ideas how to extend the grouped product type?

By: Shervin

Shervin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:31:45 +0000

Could anyone please help me out here or atleast give me a hint!! ??

By: Shervin

Shervin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:05:22 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the extension. But I was wondering if there is anyway to make customized product type based on the ” Grouped ” type product? If there is could you tell me how can I set that up? I appreciate any kind of help.

By: Ella

Ella — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:51:43 +0000

Thanks for the extension.
I am using it on Magento 1.5 on php 5.3.5 and just had to change the following in sql/mysql4-install-0.1.0.php:

 $applyTo = split(',', $installer->getAttribute('catalog_product', $field, 'apply_to'));

to..

    $applyTo = explode(',', $installer->getAttribute('catalog_product', $field, 'apply_to'));

By: dgento

dgento — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 06:37:21 +0000

its is something to understand in depth for programmer and you make it available …you deserves many many thinks…..

once more thanks

By: Joel Grøndrup

Joel Grøndrup — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:24:15 +0000

Hi there

Suppose I want to add an upload file-field to a custom product-type, how would I do this?

Thanks for a great module by the way.

Joel

By: Tihomir Panchev

Tihomir Panchev — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:35:39 +0000

Hi Branko…

up to here, everything looks fine and finally i found a customizable product. Unfortunately I am a magento newbie

My pain is that I want to customize the system fields… What I mean is to remove some of the system attributes e.g. price, stock, qty, add to cart and etc. and to make the product looks like an article: Title, description (short), thumb, images etc. No price, no additional stuff in it.

Is it possible to do it with your extention? If yes,.. how..

Thanx
Grab a beer
t.

By: Jona

Jona — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:48:40 +0000

Hi Coders,

It’s a very interesting article !
Do you know how to add some tabs with specific informations linked to our new product type?

Just like downloadable products… I’ve tried to look in the code of downloadble module but i’m lost…

I want to create a product type ‘Rateable’, these products must have a start and end date for the rates, an estimated price, …

I cant create a new attribute set ‘Rateable’ because the rateable products can have another attribute set with other attributes…

I wish you beleive me with my bad english…

Thanks ! Jona

By: onjerseys

onjerseys — Thu, 20 May 2010 14:38:42 +0000

ok. now i understand. The fact this code creates a new product type means we can have the additional logic embedded in this product type.

I will share with you the example once we do it

Many thanks for the explanation.

By: eee

eee — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:11:21 +0000

This is just what i was looking for. Wanted to copy & make some changes to the bundled product type. This will come in handy at learning Magento. Just started looking into it yesterday, but i soon learned it has serious drawbacks when it comes to price calculation based on chosen attributes.

By: Nasser

Nasser — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:15:05 +0000

This is how our team plans to use it (not sure if we can or not, though) … for example we have a product that simulates a theater booking system. In addition to the attributes, we have specific code within the product. Every time we need to create a new theater event, we have to duplicate a product. Now, if we can create a new product type and embed in it our code, then we can simply create a theater event as opposed to duplicating the original product.

By: Fishpig

Fishpig — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:01:25 +0000

Couldn’t you just create a new attribute set to accomplish? What did you use this for, specifically?

By: gerrito

gerrito — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:50:28 +0000

The zip file seems to be invalid. Could you fix it please?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:24:39 +0000

Scratch that last comment. Somehow I looked past the same unclosed node like fifty times. All seems well now.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:02:42 +0000

I’m using this code with Magento 1.4.0.1 and I keep getting this error:

Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 46: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: blocks line 26 and global in /home/drjsafety/www/www/lib/Varien/Simplexml/Config.php on line 510″

I went through config.xml adding nodes one by one until I could get the error to repeat and seems to be caused by the catalog node.

Do you have any more insight into what’s causing this?

By: Nasser

Nasser — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:23:39 +0000

ok. now i understand. The fact this code creates a new product type means we can have the additional logic embedded in this product type.

I will share with you the example once we do it

Many thanks for the explanation.

By: Branko Ajzele

Branko Ajzele — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:39:50 +0000

@Nasser

This specific product in the example is not that different from Simple product type. However, it enables you now to do any custom logic in the model that will make it a whole lot different then any product type in Magento -For example, if you use “duplicate” function a lot I would guess you are using it in order to “presetting” some values for product so you do not have to fill them in each time manually. Why not do so with the code in your custom product type?! Just a thought.

Cheers.