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Products Variations and User Uploads - Part II: By: Muhammad Zeeshan Ali

The document discusses allowing product customization and variations on an e-commerce site. It describes modifying product queries to detect customizable attributes, and switching templates to display options. Simple variants are suggested to list variant names, costs and purchase buttons. The need to give users control via uploads and custom text is covered, along with database changes like adding fields to allow uploads and custom text inputs. Security and file management considerations for user uploads are also addressed.

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Products Variations and User Uploads - Part II: By: Muhammad Zeeshan Ali

The document discusses allowing product customization and variations on an e-commerce site. It describes modifying product queries to detect customizable attributes, and switching templates to display options. Simple variants are suggested to list variant names, costs and purchase buttons. The need to give users control via uploads and custom text is covered, along with database changes like adding fields to allow uploads and custom text inputs. Security and file management considerations for user uploads are also addressed.

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Products Variations and

User Uploads – Part II


By: Muhammad Zeeshan Ali

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Giving Users Choice …
• Changing our Product Query
– In order for the framework to detect if a product has any
variations or changeable attributes, we need to modify the
query.
– we use to get the product data, and change this to perform a
subquery, which groups together all of the attribute values and
their attributes that can be associated with the product.
– If there are no attribute values, then the model should have a
property set to define that it has no customizable attributes;
otherwise, the property should indicate that there are
customizable attributes. 2
Giving Users Choice …
• Switching the Template
– Our controller can then check this property value with the
model, and generate the relevant templates to form the view
accordingly.
– If the product has attributes, we iterate through them, and for
each attribute we generate a list of values associated with it.

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Giving Users Choice …
• A look back at Simple Variants
– One advantage that they have over multiple variants becomes
obvious when page design becomes a concern.
– If we were to have a system that utilized simple variants, we
could display a simple table of product variants on the "main
products" page, listing the names of products, cost or cost
difference, and a purchase button.

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Giving Users Choice …
• A look back at Simple Variants…

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Giving Users Control
• Along with giving users a choice for products in our store,
we may also wish to give them some control over the
products; for example, this could include:
– Uploading a photograph or image
– Supplying some custom text

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Giving Users Control …
• How to customize a product?
– We need to make it possible for our customers to customize the
product through both file and image uploads, and then entering
of free text.
– Uploads
• If the product is to allow the customer to upload an image, then the
template requires a file upload field within it, to facilitate that.
– Custom Text
• The simplest way to handle custom text is to have at most one free text
permitted per product.
• This would simply involve having an extra field in the table. 7
Giving Users Control …

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Giving Users Control …
• Maintaining Uploads
– We will also need to consider maintaining uploads.
– If a file is uploaded and a product is added to a basket, and that
basket is never converted into an actual order, we will want to
remove that file.
– Similarly, once an order has been paid for, and processed fully,
we would also want to remove it.

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Giving Users Control …
• Security Considerations
– There are also a number of security considerations which we
must bear in mind:
• By allowing customers to upload files, we could be open to abuse from
someone repeatedly uploading images to our server. We could implement
time delays to prevent this.
• Which types of files will we allow customers to upload? We should check
both the type of the file uploaded and the file extension against a list of
suitable values.
• What would the maximum file size be for files customers upload? If we set
this value to be too large, our server will get filled up quickly with custom
files.
• What safeguards are in place to prevent customers finding uploads of
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other customers?
Giving Users Control …
• Database Changes
– To allow customers to customize products, we obviously need
to make some changes to our database structure to indicate
that a particular product is customizable.
– And can be customized either by the customer uploading a file
or entering some text.

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Giving Users Control …
• Extending our products table
– The changes required to our products table are actually quite
simple; we only need to add two fields to the table:
• allow_upload (Boolean): This field is used to indicate if the customer is
permitted or able to upload a file when adding the product to their
basket.
• custom_text_inputs (longtext): This field is used to hold a serialized
array of free text fields, which we may wish to collect from our
customers.

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