Question

My Magento site has a product which has a few Custom Options, one text, one file upload and four drop down lists.

The design of the site dictates that I need to show these options throughout the product view page and not all in one group.

Is there a function that I can call to return the HTML of a single Custom Option?

Answer 1

There are ways to do this that are tantamount to cheating.

Your shop requires javascript to operate and there is a lot you can do with Prototype before the page renders, by using the on dom:loaded event. You can attach your custom options to wherever you want in the DOM, or you can hide them and put something else where you want it on the page that updates the form element. You may want to do this if you have to capture a colour name but don’t want to put oodles of colours on every product – a textbox can go on the product and your control can write to it.

The benefit of some $$(‘cheating’) is that you don’t have to go too deep into Magento code for what is a ‘design consideration’.