I have a client who would like a barcode image to display on the admin (not frontend) product information tab in virtuemart.
I have found some easy to use php code here (http://www.ashberg.de/php-barcode/) but the problem I have is I am not sure how to integrate custom code with virtuemart.
I would simply read the barcode from a custom field in virtuemart and display it using the php code.
(I assume if I just found the product page and edited in the code I need this would break future virtuemart updates?)
I know my way around php ok, but am very new to Joomla & virtuemart and have trouble figuring out how to integrate my own code (apologies if this is more a general Joomla question but I figured since the client wants the barcode to display on the Product Information Tab in virtuemart I would ask here.).
Well I have just edited the following file.. /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/views/product/tmpl/product_edit_information.php
and it appears to be working fine.
If there is a better way someone please let me know.
Hi randomdev,
changing the core VM files will get over written once you do an update. It is much better to create layout overrides within your templates' html folder.
I was in the process of researching a solution for your issue when I ran into another related issue in that you can't override the products layout templates. To which was solved here
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=101122.0 (http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=101122.0)
Your solution is perfect except I'd move them into the overrides folder so it doesn't accidentally get wiped.
Hi randomdev,
Not sure if this is of benefit to you or not, but if you're in need of QR code generator, here is a very easy PHP class you can use.
http://www.shayanderson.com/php/php-qr-code-generator-class.htm (http://www.shayanderson.com/php/php-qr-code-generator-class.htm)
Thanks very much for your help ivus!
I noticed a problem with the barcode generator I linked in that it will only render certain barcodes (e.g. ean-13). The barcode numbers range from 1 to 13 digits (I am pretty sure the numbers under 6 digits must be errors)
I have found a few more barcode generators but the problem is working out what symbolgy I should even be using to render these (not a problem for this forum but thought I would mention it in case anyone is trying to do the same thing)