Getting Started in Perch Shop

Hello Drew,

Not sure what you mean by page? I'm using Perch Runway and Shop APP, when creating the product it automatically generates the slug.

I display the list of products as above which correctly calls in the name. However the link doesn't work.

The homepage displays fine, and there isn't an index file in the root folder?

Clicking the add to cart button also returns the same error.

Making slow progress, I have created a cart page which successfully shows the product being added into the cart.

How do I create the standard product view showing the product itself?

The examples show how to create a view by passing the product slug into the function, but I don't think I'm supposed to create a product in the shop section and then create and individual page to show that product separately or am I?

Hello Drew,

I'd like to give it more of a shot, if you're happy to help me over this initial hurdle?

Thanks Drew,

I'm on the right path, albeit with ugly URLs showing parameters:

<a href="/product?item=<perch:shop id="slug" type="slug" />">

Then the product page:

$productItem = perch_get('item');
perch_shop_product($productItem);

I found a separate support issue that links to your 24 ways url rewriting article. If I can crack that to get SEO friendly URLs, it will be the biggest problem out of the way.

Thanks Drew,

I created a route on the product page:

/product/[slug]

I edited the link on the list template:

<a href="/product/<perch:shop id="slug" type="slug" />">

However this returns a 404.

Can you give us a head start please, if you show me how to get the above example working I can work it out from there for future ones.

I'm a little further forward, I've got the route working, this now show the product.php template correctly.

However I'm struggling to get the current slug into the perch_shop_product part of the product.php template.

 $productItem = perch_get([slug]);
perch_shop_product($productItem);

Gives me the error:

Notice: Use of undefined constant slug - assumed 'slug'

It's definitely in there somewhere as if I type it in manually and use perch:showall it gives me a table and 'slug' is detailed correctly.

$productItem = perch_get('slug'); 
perch_shop_product($productItem);

You've got [ and ] in there instead of '

Tried that and it returned nothing?

$productItem = perch_get('slug');
echo 'Product Item: '.$productItem;
perch_shop_product($productItem);

Returns no errors but no results.

Can you show us the actual url of the page that returns no errors or results?

It's a local page, best thing I can do is show you a screen shot, I've tried to include everything:

https://www.sixtillnine.co.uk/screenShot.png

You'll see the manually typed section works fine, I just can't get the slug out of the url?

That worked!

Is the slug treated differently for products or is this something I have to bear in mind for other page types?