[Plugin: Ecwid: Random Products] Expand plugin to display category products, latest products, etc

@moens

> I don’t know… the method I used was:
>
> https://app.ecwid.com/api/v1/STOREID/products?category=CATEGORYID

Just checked it out and indeed methods “products”, “categories”, “profile” do not work for free accounts. Did not know before.

I have a paid account, can I assist in any way? I also remember seeing something in the Ecwid forums about a store ID you can use for developing that has the API access? Are you aware of this?

@dax702

I have a paid account as well. I tested the methods of product API with a free account just because I was curios about it ??

As for the plugin development itself, I stopped working on it for a while since I am pressed for time at the moment. Now just answering questions if people face troubles.

After the 20th of June, I will start working on the plugin again. I feel that display of category via shortcode or widget would be a great feature to add, so I will probably implement it. Anyway, cannot promise to do it in a couple of weeks.

I think it will be a great feature too, a nice visual category menu that will fit in the sidebar will look nicer than just text like the existing Ecwid categories vertical widget.

Sorry about the errors… as I mentioned, its not tested. I am sure there are errors ?? It appears that most of the errors stem from me not checking variable input types. The fist error must be me feeding array_slice() params in the wrong order. I only use that function once, so you can grep for it and fix it.

Not much I can do about it since I don’t personally have a paid Ecwid account. Another cool thing about FoxyCart is that it allows developers full free access to the entire system. You only pay when you actually start selling.

Edit to add:

I also remember seeing something in the Ecwid forums about a store ID you can use for developing that has the API access? Are you aware of this?

^^^ Didn’t see that, can you link this page?

I’m still looking for that page, haven’t found it yet, but I did come across this which might be of some use to fkie:

https://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12020&highlight=wordpress+plugin

This person is using the API to create a horizontal menu that pulls categories and I guess a product image from those categories. Somewhat similar to the feature I proposed so I think it might be helpful.. I’ll continue to look for that other post about the store ID for developers..

Here’s another one by him:
https://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12248

Ok, I think I found it:
https://kb.ecwid.com/w/page/25285101/Product%20API#%EF%BB%BFIwanttocreateamoduleforEcwidbutifIdonthaveapaidaccountHowcanItestanAPI

?I want to create a module for Ecwid, but if I don’t have a paid account. How can I test an API?

There are two possible solutions:

-You can use “1003” Store ID to test your module. It’s our demo store and it has an API enabled.

-You can contact us and we will provide you with the access to a test API server.

@moens

The problem with these errors is that categoryId was not passed to the Ecwid API call. Have a look at the top of the error message:
How Many: 6, Category Id: , Type: random Array ( ) Initial Products: 1
Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /u/feakie/public_html/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/ecwid-useful-tools/classes/EcwidUsefulToolsProduct.php on line 21

“How Many: 6, Category Id: , Type: random Array ( ) Initial Products: 1” is your debug code that reveals it. That is why plugin cannot pull the products.

dax702 is right, you can use 1003 store ID for development. It allows to pull products by categoryId, e.g.:
https://app.ecwid.com/api/v1/1003/products?category=1002

Glad I could help in some way with the 1003, even though I can’t offer any coding help haha

k… I’ll try to debug my code when I have a spare minute.

Moens, great many thanks and looking forward to the result!

Any update as of yet on the plugin?

Hi dax702!

Perhaps, the following thread will be helpful for you:
https://www.ecwid.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12020

It describes how you can enable the display of Ecwid categories in your WP.

Ecwid is the only e-commerce platform I use with all my clients, whether they like it or not, because it actually works and their support forum gets back to you within 48 hours most times. But…you shouldn’t need updates to the plugin if you log into your account and copy and paste the categories code and just paste it into the page (make sure it’s in HTML editor) and embed the categories code. It will just plop them into that page. I mean, you really don’t even need the plugin in the first place because you can just log in to your account and copy and paste the code for their own version of a “widget,” from categories, to random products (I think) to store or checkout bag. Hope that helps a little.