[osCmax v2.5x] Feature suggestion: Price from...

[ragerbua]

Hi!

I have quite a few products in my store, whose base price is 0 and the full price is stored in their options.

The reason why I handle prices this way is that I have never seen a web shop which presents its prices in the standard +/- oscommerce way. I did not ask a lawyer, but I have the feeling that this might be not even legal in Europe. Anyway, the problem is that the product is listed everywhere with its zero base price. This does not look good and definitely causes a legal problem.

What I'd love to see in osCmax is something like price from in product_info.php contribution.

Or maybe it is easier to extend the already present "ask for price" functionality and add the minimum price to the text output? Products with multiple options should be also handled correctly, of course.

What do you think?

Best regards
ragerbua

[ridexbuilder]

Putting a base price of zero IS misleading. I can't see anything wrong in making your base price the minimum, then only adding for attributes (i.e. no subtraction).
I agree though, that a price from is useful but maybe not for everyone - an optional install module?
That particular contribution is pretty 'raw' and requires updating, plus the inclusion of multilingual capabilities. That wouldn't take long to do.
A good find, in my opinion.

[pgmarshall]

The priceformatter class should do this for you ... take a look at the MRSP code at the top of the file for the min / max prices and switch accordingly.

Something like:

<?php
$lo_product_price = $pf->getLowPrice();
echo "From: " . $lo_product_price;
?>

Regards,

Regards,

[ragerbua]

Thanks for the hint