Question

In my Magento store I have it set up to allow backorders on some products. When these items are out of stock they still show as ‘In Stock’ on the product page but the user gets notified when they visit the cart that the item is on backorder.

I would like to change the product page so it also shows there that the item is on backorder in place of the ‘In Stock’ text.

Answer 1

In the file template/catalog/product/view/type/simple.phtml (and the same for bundled, configurable, grouped and virtual – you must override them all) there is some code that looks like this:

<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
    <p class="availability in-stock"><?php echo $this->__('Availability:') ?>
    <span><?php echo $this->__('In stock') ?></span></p>

My guess is you need to change it a bit like this:

<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
    <p class="availability in-stock"><?php echo $this->__('Availability:') ?>
    <span><?php echo $this->__($_product->isInStock() ? 'In stock' : 'On Backorder') ?></span></p>

Do a search of all template files for “availability” to see the various places that might need fixing.