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Displaying a list of product attributes

Product attributes are just named pieces of information assigned to a product, which describe a product. For example, if you sell books, for each book you can specify a book format (A5, A4) and a cover type.

Each product attribute has a name and a value. In the product page you can output product attributes as a table.

We recommend you to create a separate partial for displaying the product attribute list. Using partials can keep your product page code looking clean and easy to read.

Start by creating a new partial and assign it some meaningful name, for example shop:product_attributes. The following code outputs a product attribute as a table.

<? if ($product->properties->count): ?>
        <table>
                <? foreach ($product->properties as $attribute): ?>
                        <tr>
                                <th><?= h($attribute->name) ?>:</th>
                                <td><?= h($attribute->value) ?></td>
                        </tr>
                <? endforeach ?>
        </table>
<? endif ?>

In the first line check the code to see whether any attributes were assigned to a product. If no attributes were assigned, we do not need to output any markup to the page.

PHP foreach loop iterates over a list of attributes, contained in the $properties field of the $product object, displaying a table row with two columns for each attribute.

Once you have finished developing the partial, you can render it on the product page, somewhere under the product description:

<? $this->render_partial('shop:product_attributes') ?>

See also:

• Shop_Product class

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