Show recently viewed products in product details page

[srekoble]

My modification to show the images of the latest viewed products was the following.

....
<div class="product-recent-products">
            <h2>Recently viewed products:</h2>
            <ul class="recent-list">
                <?php
                    foreach ($recentProducts as $rProduct) {
                    ?>
                    <li>
                       <?php echo $this->product->images[0]->displayMediaFull('class="product-image"',false) ?>
                        <a href="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id='.$rProduct->virtuemart_product_id.'&virtuemart_category_id='.$rProduct->virtuemart_category_id); ?>">
                            <?php echo $rProduct->product_name; ?>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <?php } ?>
            </ul>
        </div>


The whole code remains the same and i also add this to display the image of the product too. <?php echo $this->product->images[0]->displayMediaFull('class="product-image"',false) ?>


BUT STILL DISPLAY ONLY 2 PRODUCTS !!! any ideas how to make it displays 3 of the latest viewed ?

[DaggaTora]

My modification to show the images of the latest viewed products was the following.


The whole code remains the same and i also add this to display the image of the product too. <?php echo $this->product->images[0]->displayMediaFull('class="product-image"',false) ?>


BUT STILL DISPLAY ONLY 2 PRODUCTS !!! any ideas how to make it displays 3 of the latest viewed ?

With this I only get the same image of the product showing but not the recently viewed product images.

Also get only 2...

any heroe to the rescue?

[DaggaTora]

Ok, finally I got 3 with images that is what i have in VM config:

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<?php
        // d0ublezer0 recent viewed products mixed with DaggaTora images and number of products

        function getRecentProducts($currentId){
            $actualIds=false;
            $rProducts=false;
            
            $rSession = JFactory::getSession();
            $rIds = $rSession->get('vmlastvisitedproductids', array(), 'vm'); // get recent viewed from browser session
            if (is_array($rIds)){ 
                foreach($rIds as $rId){
                    if ($rId!=$currentId) $actualIds[]=$rId; // cut out from array currently viewed product 
                }  
            }

            if (is_array($actualIds)){
                if (!class_exists('VirtueMartModelProducts')) // check possible if VM products class exists
                    JModel::addIncludePath(JPATH_VM_ADMINISTRATOR . DS . 'models'); // if not exists, add them
                $rModel = JModel::getInstance('Product', 'VirtueMartModel');

                $recent_products_rows = VmConfig::get('recent_products_rows'); // set in VM admin panel
                $products_per_row = VmConfig::get('homepage_products_per_row'); // set in VM admin panel
                $recent_products_count = $products_per_row * $recent_products_rows; // get max recent products count

                $rProducts = $rModel->getProducts($actualIds, false, false);  // no front, no calc, only published
            }
            if (is_array($rProducts)) $rProducts=array_slice($rProducts,0,$recent_products_count); // return only allowed num of products

            return $rProducts;
        }

        $recentProducts=getRecentProducts($rProducts->product->virtuemart_product_id);
        if ($recentProducts){ // if we get recent products, display them
        ?>
        <div class="product-recent-products">
           
            <ul class="recent-list">
                <?php
                    foreach ($recentProducts as $rProduct) {
                    ?>
                    <li style="float: left;
width: 100%;"><?php echo $rProduct->images[0]->displayMediaThumb('class="featuredProductImage" style="max-width:50px;float:left;vertical-align:middle" border="0"',false) ;?>
                     <a style="padding-top: 14px !important;padding-left: 10px;float: left;" href="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id='.$rProduct->virtuemart_product_id.'&virtuemart_category_id='.$rProduct->virtuemart_category_id); ?>">
                            <?php echo $rProduct->product_name; ?>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <?php } ?>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <?php
        }
?>

but... how could i get rid of child products and show only parents?

PS:Bad news... it gives an error if you dont visit at least 3 products:

Fatal error: Call to a member function displayMediaThumb() on a non-object

This is because the line <?php echo $rProduct->images[0]->displayMediaThumb('class="featuredProductImage" style="max-width:50px;float:left;vertical-align:middle" border="0"',false) ;?> should be with $this bu it doesn´t work with $this.

... Help?! 

[DaggaTora]

someone with a big soul and some php knowledge? 

[d0ublezer0]

Add

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if (!class_exists('VmMediaHandler')) require(JPATH_VM_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'helpers'.DS.'mediahandler.php');

This should add functions for media handling, including displayMediaThumb(), located in file administrator\components\com_virtuemart\helpers\mediahandler.php:

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/**
* This function displays the image, when the image is not already a resized one,
* it tries to get first the resized one, or create a resized one or fallback in case
*
* @author Max Milbers
*
* @param string $imageArgs Attributes to be included in the <img> tag.
* @param boolean $lightbox alternative display method
* @param string $effect alternative lightbox display
* @param boolean $withDesc display the image media description
*/
function displayMediaThumb($imageArgs='',$lightbox=true,$effect="class='modal' rel='group'",$return = true,$withDescr = false,$absUrl = false, $width=0,$height=0){

if(empty($this->file_name)){

if($return){
if($this->file_is_downloadable){
$file_url = $this->theme_url.'assets/images/vmgeneral/'.VmConfig::get('downloadable','zip.png');
$file_alt = JText::_('COM_VIRTUEMART_NO_IMAGE_SET').' '.$this->file_description;
return $this->displayIt($file_url, $file_alt, '',true,'',$withDescr);
} else {
$file_url = $this->theme_url.'assets/images/vmgeneral/'.VmConfig::get('no_image_set');
$file_alt = JText::_('COM_VIRTUEMART_NO_IMAGE_SET').' '.$this->file_description;
return $this->displayIt($file_url, $file_alt, $imageArgs,$lightbox);
}
}
}

if(!empty($this->file_url_thumb)){
$file_url = $this->file_url_thumb;
}

$media_path = JPATH_ROOT.DS.str_replace('/',DS,$this->file_url_thumb);

if(empty($this->file_meta)){
if(!empty($this->file_description)){
$file_alt = $this->file_description;
} else if(!empty($this->file_name)) {
$file_alt = $this->file_name;
} else {
$file_alt = '';
}
} else {
$file_alt = $this->file_meta;
}

if ((empty($this->file_url_thumb) || !file_exists($media_path)) && is_a($this,'VmImage')) {

if(empty($width)) $width = VmConfig::get('img_width', 90);
if(empty($height)) $height = VmConfig::get('img_height', 90);
$this->file_url_thumb = $this->createThumb($width,$height);
// vmdebug('displayMediaThumb',$this->file_url_thumb);
$media_path = JPATH_ROOT.DS.str_replace('/',DS,$this->file_url_thumb);
$file_url = $this->file_url_thumb;

//Here we need now to update the database field of $this->file_url_thumb to prevent dynamic thumbnailing in future
if(empty($this->_db)) $this->_db = JFactory::getDBO();
$query = 'UPDATE `#__virtuemart_medias` SET `file_url_thumb` = "'.$this->_db->getEscaped($this->file_url_thumb).'" WHERE `#__virtuemart_medias`.`virtuemart_media_id` = "'.(int)$this->virtuemart_media_id.'" ';
$this->_db->setQuery($query);
$this->_db->query();
}

if($withDescr) $withDescr = $this->file_description;
if (empty($this->file_url_thumb) || !file_exists($media_path)) {
return $this->getIcon($imageArgs,$lightbox,$return,$withDescr,$absUrl);
}

if($return) return $this->displayIt($file_url, $file_alt, $imageArgs,$lightbox,$effect,$withDescr,$absUrl);

}

or, you can use clean HTML code to display your image (possible only, if you already have thumb image)
or, else use function displayIt() from mediaHandler class

[d0ublezer0]

By the way - your code should not to work. Did you really test it?

Your mistakes:

srekoble,

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$this->product->images[0]
reflects current product

DaggaTora,

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$rProduct->images[0]
will always be empty, because $rModel->getProducts did not return images

[d0ublezer0]

Oh, okay, there is fully working solution, created today, much better and much simple (just throw old code from first post to trash, and change him to this) :

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<?php
        // d0ublezer0 recently viewed products -- start --
        // first, cleanup the variables, just in case
        $actualIds=false; 
        $recentProducts=false;

        $rSession = JFactory::getSession();
        $rIds = $rSession->get('vmlastvisitedproductids', array(), 'vm'); // get recent viewed from browser session
        if (is_array($rIds)){ 
            foreach($rIds as $rId){
                if ($rId!=$currentId) $actualIds[]=$rId; // cut out from array currently viewed product 
            }  
        }
        if (is_array($actualIds)){
            $recent_products_rows = VmConfig::get('recent_products_rows'); // set in VM admin panel
            $products_per_row = VmConfig::get('homepage_products_per_row'); // set in VM admin panel
            // override next line to define number of recent to display, for example: $recent_products_count = 7;
            $recent_products_count = $products_per_row * $recent_products_rows; // get max recent products count

            $productModel = VmModel::getModel('product');
            $mediaModel = VmModel::getModel('Media');
            $recentProducts = $productModel->getProducts($actualIds, false, false);  // no front, no calc, only published
            $mediaModel->addImages($recentProducts,1); // Digit 1 - is the limit of returned product images. For recent list usually you wil be need only one picture
        }

        if (is_array($recentProducts)) // if we have recent products
            $recentProducts=array_slice($recentProducts,0,$recent_products_count); // return only allowed num of products

        if ($recentProducts){ // if we get recent products, display them
        ?>
        <div class="product-recent-products">
            <h2>Recently viewed products:</h2>
            <ul class="recent-list">
                <?php
                    foreach ($recentProducts as $rProduct) {
                    ?>
                    <li>
                        <a href="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_virtuemart&view=productdetails&virtuemart_product_id='.$rProduct->virtuemart_product_id.'&virtuemart_category_id='.$rProduct->virtuemart_category_id); ?>">
                            <?php 
                                // images[0] - this is first image in images list of the current processed recent product
                                // also, you can use ->file_url for the full image
                                echo '<img src="'.$rProduct->images[0]->file_url_thumb.'" />';
                                echo $rProduct->product_name; 
                            ?>
                        </a>
                    </li>
                    <?php } ?>
            </ul>
        </div>
        <?php
        }
        // d0ublezer0 recently viewed products -- end --
?>


With images, tested on 2.0.18

[DaggaTora]

Absolutly perfect!!!! 

Thank you very very very very much! This should be implemented in a module inside aio.

[d0ublezer0]

Thanks, glad to help.

Little hint:

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$mediaModel->addImages($recentProducts,1);
Digit 1 - is the limit of returned product images.
For recent list usually you wil be need only one picture. Also, you can get more images by defining greater number.

[den_piero]

Hi d0ublezer0, Thanx for the code but it display warning message on 2.0.20 "COM_VIRTUEMART_MEDIA_CHOOSE_TYPE".

[ttigerwods]

Thank's, very good

[Garyk01]

Hi d0ublezer0, Thanx for the code but it display warning message on 2.0.20 "COM_VIRTUEMART_MEDIA_CHOOSE_TYPE".

This message appears when you view the product with noimage.gif.
How to fix it?

[Stonedfury]

Funny thing about this post. Virtuemart already has a recently viewed module. Its the top ten. Thanks to virtueplanet I learned this.
Open up your modules\mod_virtuemart_product\mod_virtuemart_product.xml and find this line

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<option value="topten">MOD_VIRTUEMART_PRODUCT_BEST_SALES</option> and add below

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<option value="recent">Recently Viewed Products</option>

Open your module and adjust accordingly. Voila

[Garyk01]

Funny thing about this post. Virtuemart already has a recently viewed module. Its the top ten. Thanks to virtueplanet I learned this.
Open up your modules\mod_virtuemart_product\mod_virtuemart_product.xml and find this line

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<option value="topten">MOD_VIRTUEMART_PRODUCT_BEST_SALES</option> and add below

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<option value="recent">Recently Viewed Products</option>

Open your module and adjust accordingly. Voila

Thank you! The perfect solution!
Very good! 

[rajmohansoft]

Hi

I have problem the recently viewed product only showed after clear cache.is there any solution for this problem.