How to make a comparison table between CPT Product with Custom Fields

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April 9, 2022 at 9:39 PM #35546

Nikola Vladimirov
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Hello,

I am building a product catalog website avoiding Woocommerce like wildfire.

It has no e-commerce functionality like user profiles, carts, checkouts etc., just plain products with custom fields. I'm using Oxygen Builder, if that's of any relevance.

I want to be able to add the products to a comparison table "cart" of sorts and when that cart is viewed to display the products side by side with their custom fields, and I'm thinking of Metabox favorite posts might be able to do the trick to some extent.

Why am I doing this instead of going the Woocommerce way? Simple answer - custom tables, less bloat from unrequired functionality, less plugins, etc.

Any pointers on how to achieve that?

I've seen that Toolset has something similar, and I found a plugin to compare CPTs, but it doesn't look trustworthy. Keep in mind that I have limited PHP knowledge.

Thanks

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April 9, 2022 at 11:55 PM #35547

Nikola Vladimirov
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Okay, MB Favorite posts is the thing that will do the trick.

Now, the question is how do I make it display the products' fields in a repeater...Is there a way to query the favorites area in the advanced query editor and get the fields so I can build the side by side comparison instead the table view?

Thanks

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April 12, 2022 at 6:15 AM #35571

Long Nguyen
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Hi,

The frontend dashboard does not support customizing the table to display custom fields of listing posts. You can follow this topic to create your own dashboard with coding https://support.metabox.io/topic/duplicate-dashboard-shortcode/

If you have limited knowledge about coding, you can create a service request here https://metabox.io/contact/. Our developer will help you to create custom code as your requirements for a small extra fee.

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April 14, 2022 at 10:19 PM #35640

Nikola Vladimirov
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I see. Thank you very much. I will try to do it and learn a thing or two then 🙂

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April 15, 2022 at 12:09 AM #35644

Nikola Vladimirov
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Alright, I've been reading this: https://docs.metabox.io/mb-favorite-posts/#data in relation to this post here: https://support.metabox.io/topic/mb-favorite-posts-customization/

But I can't seem to make it output the posts custom fields that are assigned to it.

Should I use meta_query?

What am I missing?

Is there a snippet that I can use?

There are 5 field groups, primarily text fields and number fields. No repeaters.

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April 15, 2022 at 1:35 AM #35645

Nikola Vladimirov
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This is what I'm adding to the code:

<?= esc_html(rwmb_the_value($marka)) ?>
in posts.php

Still doesn't display the custom field value.

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April 16, 2022 at 6:47 PM #35672
Long Nguyen
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Hi,

You can pass the variable $post_id to the helper function in the loop to get the field value.
```
$marka = rwmb_meta( 'field_id', '', $post_id );
echo $marka;
```
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September 2, 2023 at 12:22 PM #43122

Tony
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I was looking to do the very same thing, is this possible?

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