Manufacturer List page

To create a page displaying a list of all manufacturers, you should use the shop:manufacturers action. This action creates the $manufacturers PHP variable, which is a collection of manufacturers. Each element in the collection is an instance of the Shop_Manufacturer class.

Start with creating a new page and assign it some name and URL. On the Actions page select the shop:manufacturers action. For the page code you can use the following content:

<ul>
  <? foreach ($manufacturers as $manufacturer): ?>
    <li>
      <a href="/manufacturer/<?= $manufacturer->url_name ?>"><?= h($manufacturer->name) ?></a>
    </li>
  <? endforeach ?>
</ul>

<ul>
  {% for manufacturer in manufacturers %}
    <li>
      <a href="/manufacturer/{{ manufacturer.url_name }}">{{ manufacturer.name }}</a>
    </li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

Please note that the code creates a link for each manufacturer. The link refers to a page with the /manufacturer URL. On this page you can display manufacturer details and a list of manufacturer products. As any page in LemonStand the manufacturer details page URL is not fixed. In the example we used the /manufacturer URL, but you can use any other URL.

The process of creating a manufacturer details page is described in the next article.

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