Show manufacturer on invoice?

Does anyone know if there is an easy way to show the manufacturer for each product on the invoice in admin? I've been searching for awhile and can't dig anything up.

Take a look at this thread today..

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63018

Mark,

You would just go by making a mysql call for each product, to lookup the manufacture and print it on the page. Similar to the post in the thread linked above!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Very helpful. I've hit a snag though when trying to modify this to show the manufacturer. Since the manufacturer_id is not stored with the order, how can I query the db? Please bear with me, I'm fairly new to PHP.

Here's my query:

but I realize this won't work. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Ok I thought you only needed some small pointers...

Here is a code I just wrote for you to use:
find in admin/invoice.php at line 156

    for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($order->products); $i < $n; $i++) {

replace with

    for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($order->products); $i < $n; $i++) {
	//manufacture hack start
	$manufacture_id_sql = "select m.manufacturers_name, m.manufacturers_id
                          from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " .
                            TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " m
                          where p.products_id = '" . (int)$order->products[$i][id] . "'
                          and p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id";
	
	$order->products[$i]['manufacture_id']=$manufacture_id_sql->fields['manufacturers_id'];
	$order->products[$i]['manufacture_name']=$manufacture_id_sql->fields['manufacturers_name'];
	//manufacture hack end

Then print anywhere in the loop the manufacture's name or id by using

<?php echo $order->products[$i]['manufacture_id']; ?>
``` or
```php
<?php echo $order->products[$i]['manufacture_name']; ?>

Thanks for such a speedy reply, Masterblaster. I appreciate it. I've replaced the code as suggested and then added this in about line 182 but nothing is displaying. Did this work on your end?

Sorted it out:

$manufacture_id_sql = $db->Execute("select m.manufacturers_name, m.manufacturers_id
from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " .
TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " m
where p.products_id = '" . (int)$order->products[$i][id] . "'
and p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id");

THANK YOU, MASTERBASTER!!!!

You are welcome, glad you found out yourself.

digitalrust:

Sorted it out:

$manufacture_id_sql = $db->Execute("select m.manufacturers_name, m.manufacturers_id
from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " .
TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " m
where p.products_id = '" . (int)$order->products[$i][id] . "'
and p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id");

THANK YOU, MASTERBASTER!!!!

Hi Digital, can you tell me where you placed this code,, i am also trying to do the same thing.

Sure, here's my whole invoice.php file so you can see how it's implemented. I had to modify the tables in order to display the name column. Bascially look at lines 148, 158, 183, and 206 where I changed the colspan to 9.

I'll also note that I have stock by attributes installed so my page may include some additional code as well.

you are the man,,,, thanks alot,, works great,