Shortcode for stock status as text

echo $_product->get_availability();

Is that not what you need?

Thank you for replying!

It might be what I need but now here comes the sad part of me not understanding how PHP works: if I replace this
return $_product->get_stock_quantity();
with this
echo $_product->get_availability();
then it will simply not work and some array error comes to play. How would I correct the shortcode part of the code to make it write the result on the page via the shortcode?

I highly appreciate any assistance.

Needs a little reworking:

// [show_qty id="product_id"]
function show_qty_func( $atts ) {
  $p = shortcode_atts( array(
    'id' => 0
  ), $atts );

  $_pf = new WC_Product_Factory();
  $_product = $_pf->get_product($p['id']);

  $data = $_product->get_availability();
  return '<p class="'.$data['class'].'">Availability: '.$data['availability'].'</p>';
}
add_shortcode( 'show_qty', 'show_qty_func' );

This works! Thank you so much, you’ve helped me tremendously!

Hi Lorro,

Thanks so much for your code.

I’ve been using it to display stock status on my product pages and it worked for simple products and variations. However, I’ve upgraded to PHP 7 and it no longer works :-(. Any chance you can take a look?

The error returned is when I call the function using:
$my_stock_availability = $show_qty_func();

Error:
Warning: Missing argument 1 for product_stock(), called in functions.php on line 205 and defined in functions.php on line 61 Notice: Undefined variable: atts in /functions.php on line 62

Hope you can help!
Fred

I don’t have PHP 7, but I would say that you can’t call the function in the manner shown in your post, it would have to be called as a shortcode using: [show_qty id=”product_id”] in a post text. This method passes the array of attributes ($atts) from the shortcode, including the essential $product_id.

Thanks for the quick reply. I understand I am calling the function wrong, sorry. I just wanted to get the output from the function and display it. What I am trying to do is display the stock quantity of each variation when selected. Do you know of a function that will handle this? I’ve spent days trying to do this but I’m stuck ??

WooCommerce should do that for you. At Admin page > WooCommerce > Settings > Products tab > Inventory: set “Stock display format” = “Always show stock”. Then on the variations tab, ensure each variation has “Manage stock” checked, and some quantity in the Stock quantity field.

It may be theme dependent, but the above works in Twenty Sixteen.