Plugin: VirtueMart Products

• Description
• Plugin
• Parameters
• Customize your product template

Description

This plugin enables you to insert in your Newsletter one or several products from VirtueMart.

You can search in all your products and then click on one of the product to include it in your Newsletter.

AcyMailing will replace the generated tag by the name, the price (with or without VAT based on your plugin configuration) the main picture and the short description or the full description of your product (based on your configuration).

You can also use this plugin in an auto-Newsletter or in a Newsletter to include a series of products based on the VirtueMart categories.
For example, you can create an auto-Newsletter and include a tag to send the newly created products belonging to one or several categories.

This plugin is available in AcyMailing Business and Enterprise.

Plugin

• You can use our VM plugin to insert VirtueMart articles in your Newsletter

• You can also use our VM plugin to insert your newly created articles in an auto-Newsletter
  
  

Parameters

• Add the VAT to the price : If you select to include the VAT, the price of the product will be displayed included the VAT.
• Price format : You can select the format you want to display your product price with.

Customize your product template

By default, AcyMailing will display your product like the following screenshot:

You can change the styles used for the product title and the product area by editing your AcyMailing template.

You can also modify the way your product is displayed by creating your own template which will be used to render the product.
Please follow those instructions, we don't recommend you to modify the vmproduct plugin directly otherwise your changes will be overwritten when you update AcyMailing.

Create a file in the the folder media / com_acymailing / plugins (if the folder does not exists, please create it first).
(Before AcyMailing 1.7.0, the file was located in components / com_acymailing / templates / plugins)
The name of the file should be tagvmproduct.php
If this file is available on your server, AcyMailing will use it and won't use the default one.

On this file you can access to the element $product (which is the product object loaded from the vm_product table).

You can display:

• the name of your product: $product->product_name
• the full description of your product: $product->product_desc
• the short description of your product: $product->product_s_desc
• the currency of your product: $product->product_currency
• the price of your product: $product->product_price
• the product picture : ACYMAILING_LIVE.'components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/'.$product->product_thumb_image
• the url of your product: $link

Using all those variables, you can create your own product template.

By default AcyMailing uses:

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<div class="acymailing_content"> 
 <a style="text-decoration:none;" name="product-<?php echo $product->product_id ?>" target="_blank" href="<?php echo $link ?>"> 
 <h2 class="acymailing_title"> 
 <?php echo $product->product_name ?> <?php echo $finalPrice ?> 
 </h2> 
 </a> 
 <table> 
 <tr> 
 <td valign="top" style="padding-right:5px"> 
 <a style="text-decoration:none;border:0" href="<?php echo $link ?>" > 
 <img src="<?php echo ACYMAILING_LIVE.\'components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/\'.$product->product_thumb_image ?>"/> 
 </a> 
 </td> 
 <td> 
 <?php echo $product->product_s_desc ?> 
 </td> 
 </tr> 
 </table> 
</div>