ezPublish WebShop Inventory Tracking?

Wednesday 20 February 2008 1:05:35 am

Hi Trent,

this isn't a built-in feature. But it isn't too much work to do:

add an attribute called quantity (integer) to your product class, and use some code like this one whenever an order has been acknowledged:

function updateQuantities($order)
{
	$productCollection = $order->productCollection();
	$orderedItems = $productCollection->itemList();
	foreach ($orderedItems as $item)
	{
		$contentObject = $item->contentObject();
		$contentObjectVersion =& $contentObject->version($contentObject->attribute('current_version'));
		$contentObjectAttributes =& $contentObjectVersion->contentObjectAttributes();

		// iterate over the attributes
		foreach (array_keys($contentObjectAttributes) as $key)
		{
			$contentObjectAttribute =& $contentObjectAttributes[$key];
			$contentClassAttribute =& $contentObjectAttribute->contentClassAttribute();
			$attributeIdentifier = $contentClassAttribute->attribute("identifier");

			if ($attributeIdentifier == "quantity")
			{
				$newQuantity = $contentObjectAttribute->attribute("value") - $item->ItemCount;

				$contentObjectAttribute->fromString($newQuantity);
				$contentObjectAttribute->store();
			}
		}
	}
}

Hope this helps,
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Thursday 21 February 2008 12:26:51 am

Hi Trent,

the code snipped is PHP, and would have to be placed somewhere in a workflow that gets triggered when the purchase is done, typically in the payment gateway, for instance.

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