I create my own custom product. How to override existing product in the eCommerce?

[ferdware]

Hello Givanz,

So I created the structure of my own custom product. How do I override the existing product and use my own custom product?

My custom products uses variations different than the default one from the eCommerce. It also calculates the pricing variations differently.

Another alternative would be to use my custom product variations on the existing Product. How my custom product differs is that, the options create an exponential set of every combination of options. Then each option has it's own price and sku.

Versus options just having a value that's added on top of the base value.

Please Advise.

Thank You.

[ferdware]

Maybe this will provide better explanation. Here is an example of how Shopify creates variations and options. I want to achieve something similar to this.

[givanz]

Thanks for the suggestion, variations to override price and other options for product options combinations will be added after headless features are finished.

[ferdware]

Thank you for your reply. I'm going to see if I can build my own implementation. I do have a few questions.

1. Can I create my own custom product admin in my plugin? From what I understand I can.
2. Can I replace the existing product.html with my own from my "Plugin" or do I need to modify the existing product.html to add all my custom modifications?
   Thank you again Givanz!

[ferdware]

I forgot the themes can be customized. Disregard queston #2.

[givanz]

Custom products can be created from admin https://demo.vvveb.com/admin/index.php?module=settings/product-types or from code with

Event::on('Vvveb\Controller\Base', 'customProduct', __CLASS__, function ($customProducts) {
	$customProducts += ['theme' => [
		'type'   => 'theme',
		'plural' => 'themes',
		//'icon-img'       => PUBLIC_PATH . 'plugins/theme-market/theme-market.svg',
		'icon'   => 'icon-copy-outline',
	]];

	return [$customProducts];
});

this example is from theme-market plugin that creates a theme custom product.

You can change product page template for a product type by using this code in your plugin

function app() {
	
	Event::on('Vvveb\Controller\Product\Product', 'index', __CLASS__, function ($content, $language, $slug) {
		if ($content[$language]['type'] == 'product') {
			$content[$language]['template'] = 'product/my-template.html';
		}

		return [$content, $language, $slug];
	});		
}

[ferdware]

Thank You Givanz!