Getting Product Width and length information

[markitnow]

I am trying to add the width and length information to the product description in my template.  I am new to virtualmart but not to php.  I am trying to figure out how to use their api and framework.

What I am trying to do is to populate $product_width and $product_height with the values that you enter in at the admin level under the product dimensions and weight tab.  Can anyone help?

Thanks

[jenkinhill]

http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=92756.0

[markitnow]

Thank you very much for your reply.  I am new to Virtualmart so I am having to learn the framework while trying to develop for my client.

The site I am working on uses VirtueMart 1.1.9 stable.  I looked at upgrading, but they use a plugin called vmupload which doesn't appear to be available for version 2.   

What they want me to do is to create a preview of what the product will look like with the uploaded photo.  Their products are door mats.   My code takes the uploaded photo and then places it over a box the size of the door mat.  Each door mat is a different size so I need to get the dimensions of the product to create the box.  The page you gave me was excellent except it didn't work.  I am guessing because it is version 2. 

Below is the code I was using to put the dimensions on the page and to pass the dimensions to my code.  This is being put in flypage.tpl.php.
 
<?php
global $product_height;
$product_height=  $this->product->product_height;
echo "Height: ";
echo $product_height;
echo "<br>";

global $product_width;
$product_width= $this->product->product_width;
echo "<br>Width: ";
echo $product_width;
?>

From within the modified plugin I am am reading the

[jenkinhill]

The site I am working on uses VirtueMart 1.1.9 stable. 

Then why are you posting here and not in the old VirtueMart 1.1 section??

That old VM version is no longer supported - and Joomla 1.5 is no longer supported either as from last September.  http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=106865.0

VMupload has been available for VirtueMart 2 since January last year.  http://www.joomlavm.com/index.php?/Components/VMUpload-2.7-for-virtuemart-2.0/flypage.tpl.html

There is another uploader, too: http://virtuemart-order-upload.cmsmart.net/virtuemart-extensions/virtuemart-order-upload-plugin