Hi,

I have added some extra fields with a default value to existing items in a category.

The problem I am experiencing is that the default value is not being outputted unless I edit that item. There are over 300 items so not very realistic!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hello Ron,
Unfortunately since the extrafield was created after the item it is stored as blank.

You can perform a check in your overrides and display a value if that field is empty.

Thanks. I am trying the following:

<!-- Item extra fields -->
<?php if($this->item->params->get('itemExtraFields') && count($this->item->extra_fields)): ?>

<?php foreach ($this->item->extra_fields as $key=>$extraField): ?>
<?php if($extraField->value != ''): ?>

<span class="itemExtraFieldsValue"><?php echo $extraField->value; ?></span>

<?php else: ?>

<span class="itemExtraFieldsValue">Second version 1997</span>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

So IF extra value field NOT empty show value ELSE show custom HTML.

The problem is the ELSE statement doesnt seem to be working even thought the items have an empty extra field.

Try with !==
and you use var_dump() to show the actual value of the extrafield (could be NULL etc..)

I tried using !== and also checking for NULL. No joy on the ELSE part of the statement.

I then tried:

<?php var_dump($extraField); ?>

Which outputted nothing also.

Although <?php var_dump($extraField); ?> does work for items that have some content in the extra field.

Can I have the latest example of your code, and that particular field's alias?

I have reverted the code back to:

<!-- Item extra fields -->
<?php if($this->item->params->get('itemExtraFields') && count($this->item->extra_fields)): ?>

<?php foreach ($this->item->extra_fields as $key=>$extraField): ?>
<?php if($extraField->value != ''): ?>

<span class="itemExtraFieldsValue"><?php echo $extraField->value; ?></span>

<?php else: ?>

<span class="itemExtraFieldsValue">Second version 1997</span>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endif; ?>



The alias is:

Alternativelabel

Looking in the database and those fields have []

Ok, something went wrong then if the value cell in the xx_k2_extra_fields table is empty.

Try adding a new field and check the db.

An example value be:

I'm not sure if this is completely related --

I have added some extra fields to an existing item using the Joomla CMS, but am having trouble figuring out where to make these values appear on the frontend. Where is the PHP/HTML template that controls the frontend page? Here is an example product page on the website I'm supporting: www.exmweb.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=147:es-standard-door&Itemid=533&lang=en

(I'm sorry if this is an ignorant question -- I don't usually work in Joomla.)

This link ->
www.exmweb.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=147:es-standard-door&Itemid=533&lang=en&template=system

uses the default template shows the extrafields. This means that you need to download K2 and compare the default item.php's code to your overrides. The code is well commented so you won't have issue locating the extra fields block.

In order to locate the files you need to edit you need to read this post getk2.org/documentation/tutorials/174