Joomla Component MyPrices

Please find MYPRICES COMPONENT after installation in your JOOMLA Admin Area Components Menu.

First you should define some CATEGORIES.

Add a new Category by pressing the NEW Button.

Name your Category, you may leave the alias free, it will be set by Joomla automatically. If this Category is a Subcategory you may adjust the Parent Category.

Language settings and Descriptions are optional. You should not use any special characters or spaces in your category names. German words with ö,ä,ü should be avoided as well as ñ, á, é, ó, ú in spanish pages.

Your category names are used to address the listings in your plugin code later on, these names must not be readable towards your customers as they will not get them to see. You may also use names like "list1", "list2" etc.

Save the category.

Categories are important to select different prices.

You will have the option to display different pricelists in your content, each pricelist will be called by the category title.

e.g.

Category = "MyServices" for the courses that you offer

Category = "Rental" for the equipment you rent out for the course participants

Now add your prices

After you have defined the Categories you may now add your prices to the listing.

Add a new price:

Now you can name your price, e.g. "Bungee Jumping Course"

Select the Category

Select the type of price 

• something to sell
• a service like the Bungee Jumping Course
• something for rent
• or a supplemental price (In the Pricelist this price will automatically be displayed with a "+" before the price)

You can have 2 main prices and an additional suppelement price.

Usually you will only use the first price. Your listing then will look like this:

In some cases you have 2 different prices e.g. one per day and another per week, so you can use price and 2nd price. The header title of each price will be defined late in the plugin. Your listing will look like this:

"Supplement for Price" and "Supplement for Price 2" is a text that will be displayed superscripted behind the price as a reference which you can refer to later in your content. This would look like this:

 1) Bungee rope included

If you use a Supplement Text and Supplement Price, this will be shown in two extra columns. It can be used to display extra charges and it would look like this:

Sort order

The sort order is important to order your listing, you may use 0, 1, 2, 3 ... as well as a, b, c, d ... or other. If you do not give a sort order, all your prices will be listed in an alphabetical order by the title.

Description

The description is optional. It can be displayed below the Title and would look like this:

After installation of the Plugin you need to "Enable" it.

You have several adjustments available in this plugin:

Use external Server (default = NO)

If you install this Plugin on webpage www.bbb.com but your MYPRICES component with all your pricelists is installed on webpage www.aaa.com you can use the external SQL-Server from www.aaa.com to get your pricelists displayed.

The following adjustments are only necessary if "External Server" is set to YES!

• External Server : Name of the external SQL-Server
• External User : User-ID of the external SQL-Server
• External Database : Name of the external Database
• External Password : Password of the external Database
• External Table Prefix : Prefix of the external database e.g. JOS_

These adjustments change the appearance of your MYPRICES pricelists:

• Table width (default = 100%) : can be set to percent or pixel of the desired width e.g. 450px, by default it will be 100%
• Table position : you can have the table leftbound, rightbound or in the middle of the page.
• Cell Padding : gives the distance of each cell of the table to the content text in pixel within the cell. Must be numbers only no px!
• Header Background color : is the color of the header of the table (use HEX)
• Table Line color 1 and 2 will determine the backgroundcolors of your pricelist lines. If you want a unique color for all lines you must set here equal values (HEX)

CALL of MYPRICES Plugin

There are two ways to call the prices.

Please note that you need to write the code lines noted below WITHOUT the spaces before and after the brackets. We needed to add these spaces to avoid the code line to be processed by the active myprices plugin.

Call a complete List:

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" }

Options

Show Listing with description

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" desc:="true" }

Show Listing with a header

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" header:="Courses|Winter|Summer" }

use the pipe sign | to seperate the header titles

Show Listing with a defined text before each price

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" preprice:="Winter" preprice2:="Summer" }

Show Listing with a defined text after each price

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" aftprice:="per person" aftprice2:="per day" }

Show Listing with supplements

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" }

Show Listing for articles with extras

{ MYPRICES cat:="Name of the Category" }

Call a single price:

{ SHOWPRICE id:="ID of the price" }

This will show a single price in your content, so you may use it to describe your offers in your content. Find the ID-number in your MYPRICES Component.

Example:

The price for Article 1 is { SHOWPRICE id:="15" }.

Result:

The price for Article 1 is 99 €

Option - No price sticker label

To display the price without the sticker label adjusted in the plugin just add the option label:="none".

Example:

The price for Article 1 is { SHOWPRICE id:="15" label:="none" }.

Result:

The price for Article 1 is 99 €

Option - Change price sticker label individually

To display the price without the sticker label adjusted in the plugin just add the option label:="none".

Example:

The price for Article 1 is { SHOWPRICE id:="15" label:="blue" }.

Result:

The price for Article 1 is 99 €

Example:

The price for Article 1 is { SHOWPRICE id:="15" label:="pink" }.

Result:

The price for Article 1 is 99 €

Example:

The price for Article 1 is { SHOWPRICE id:="15" label:="yellow" }.

Result:

The price for Article 1 is 99 €

Option - Big vertical price label

This big red vertical price label will be displayed at the right side allways (float: right).

Example:

The price for Article 1 is { SHOWPRICE id:="15" label:="redvertical" }.

Result:

The price for Article 1 is