This tutorial is all about add an external link, either it is a Amazon product link, demo link, or any external link. This script is what you need for your magento. Within this page, you will find the step by step screenshot of creating your own attribute/set, and calling those attribute from your own template.
First you will need to create all the attribute / attribute set for your products. Below is an example of creating an external product links.
Here’s something I had created for my template selling site.
First select the Attribute from the menu, and click on Manage Attributes
Click the Add New icon to create your Attribute. 
Now Save the attribute you had just created.
Click the Add New icon to create your Attribute. 
Now Save the attribute you had just created.
Click the Add New icon to create your Attribute.
Click on the Side tab “Manage Label/Options”
Then type the following.
Now Save the attribute you had just created.
Click the Add New icon to create your Attribute.
Now Save the attribute you had just created.
Click the Add New icon to create your Attribute.
Now Save the attribute you had just created.
Click on the Add New Set
Here’s the product set that we had created “Product External Link”
Drag and drop the Attributes you just created and drop it into the Product External Link
Like the below image
Now save, and open your code and tweak the the following
Please open list.phtml and view.phtml. This file should be located at your template folder
app/design/frontend/default/[YOUR_THEME]/template/catalog/product/list.phtml
app/design/frontend/default/[YOUR_THEME]/template/catalog/product/view.phtml
Your button phtml may look a bit different, the idea is to get find this similar code and make a tiny tweak to it.
<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
<p><button type="button" title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart') ?>" class="button btn-cart" onclick="setLocation('<?php echo $this->getAddToCartUrl($_product) ?>')"><span><span><?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart') ?></span></span></button></p>
<?php else: ?>
<p class="availability out-of-stock"><span><?php echo $this->__('Out of stock') ?></span></p>
<?php endif; ?>
Put the following code above your button code.
<?php
$_productForExternalLink = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_product->getId());
if (1 == $_productForExternalLink->getData('product_external_link')) {
$linkTargetAttributeObj = $_productForExternalLink->getResource()->getAttribute("product_external_link_target");
if ($linkTargetAttributeObj->usesSource()) {
$link_target = $linkTargetAttributeObj->getSource()->getOptionText($_productForExternalLink->getData('product_external_link_target'));
}
?>
<div class="product_external_link">
<a href="<?php echo $_productForExternalLink->getData('product_external_link_url'); ?>" target="<?php echo $link_target; ?>" style="background:url('<?php echo $_productForExternalLink->getData('product_external_link_image'); ?>') repeat-x; display:inline-block; margin:0 3px 8px;">
<span><?php echo $_productForExternalLink->getData('product_external_link_text'); ?></span>
</a>
</div>
<?php
} else {
?>
<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
<p><button type="button" title="<?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart') ?>" class="button btn-cart" onclick="setLocation('<?php echo $this->getAddToCartUrl($_product) ?>')"><span><span><?php echo $this->__('Add to Cart') ?></span></span></button></p>
<?php else: ?>
<p class="availability out-of-stock"><span><?php echo $this->__('Out of stock') ?></span></p>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php
}
?>
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Thanks for a great article; I wanted to ask if you had any idea whey the following condition would fail?
$_productForExternalLink = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($_product->getId());
if(1 == $_productForExternalLink->getData('product_external_link')) {
//rest of code
$_productForExternalLink isn't holding any vaule?
I wonder if it has something to do with my confusion re the 2x different attribute sets you have above.
eg.
Product External Link
Product Demo Link
Could you possible explain these further? Thanks again.
This should be the one that reference with your attribute name:
('product_external_link') change this according to your attribute name set at the back-end.
Approved for commercial use?
Sure you can use this script, it's a share for the community.
Happy coding!
This is exactly what I wanted to do, add a manufacturer link to the product page. The problem I have is that I found that piece of Button code in two places in list.phtml not in view.phtml. I do not receive any error but I dont see any link on the product page. Should I replace the new code in both places in list.phtml? Should I replace it or just add your code above the button code (making in total four button codes in list.phtml). please help!
Maybe you can send me your site ftp and I can do a quick fix for you.
it differ by the template you use…
I did not find your email so I am puting my file contents here. Above two parts are my list.phtml file. Below I will add my view.phtml file.
<?php
$_helper = $this->helper('catalog/output');
$_product = $this->getProduct();
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var optionsPrice = new Product.OptionsPrice(<?php echo $this->getJsonConfig() ?>);
</script>
<div id="messages_product_view"><?php echo $this->getMessagesBlock()->getGroupedHtml() ?></div>
<div class="product-view">
<div class="product-essential">
<form action="<?php echo $this->getAddToCartUrl($_product) ?>" method="post" id="product_addtocart_form"<?php if($_product->getOptions()): ?> enctype="multipart/form-data"<?php endif; ?>>
<div class="no-display">
<input type="hidden" name="product" value="<?php echo $_product->getId() ?>" />
<input type="hidden" name="related_product" id="related-products-field" value="" />
</div>
<div class="product-shop">
<div class="product-name">
<h1><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, $_product->getName(), 'name') ?></h1>
</div>
<?php /*if ($this->canEmailToFriend()): ?>
<p class="email-friend"><a href="<?php echo $this->helper('catalog/product')->getEmailToFriendUrl($_product) ?>"><?php echo $this->__('Email to a Friend') ?>
<?php endif;*/ ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('alert_urls') ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_type_data') ?>
<?php echo $this->getTierPriceHtml() ?>
<?php if (!$this->hasOptions()):?>
<div class="add-to-box">
<?php if($_product->isSaleable()): ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('addtocart') ?>
<?php if( $this->helper('wishlist')->isAllow() || $_compareUrl=$this->helper('catalog/product_compare')->getAddUrl($_product)): ?>
<span class="or"><?php echo $this->__('OR') ?></span>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('addto') ?>
</div>
<?php else:?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('addto') ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ($_product->getShortDescription()):?>
<div class="short-description">
<h2><?php echo $this->__('Quick Overview') ?></h2>
<div class="std"><?php echo $_helper->productAttribute($_product, nl2br($_product->getShortDescription()), 'short_description') ?></div>
</div>
<?php endif;?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('other');?>
<?php if ($_product->isSaleable() && $this->hasOptions()):?>
<?php echo $this->getChildChildHtml('container1', '', true, true) ?>
<?php endif;?>
</div>
<div class="product-img-box">
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('media') ?>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
<?php if ($_product->isSaleable() && $this->hasOptions()):?>
<?php echo $this->getChildChildHtml('container2', '', true, true) ?>
<?php endif;?>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var productAddToCartForm = new VarienForm('product_addtocart_form');
productAddToCartForm.submit = function(){
if (this.validator.validate()) {
this.form.submit();
}
}.bind(productAddToCartForm);
//]]>
</script>
</div>
<div class="product-collateral">
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('description') ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('additional') ?>
<?php echo $this->getReviewsSummaryHtml($_product, false, true)?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('upsell_products') ?>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('product_additional_data') ?>
</div>
</div>
Thanks for the support.
HI there,
My email is vincent@designersandbox.com
Hi, I finally got this work, I had to add this code to totally different page, only problem is that I cannot show the external link image. Should I upload the image to magento root/mdeia and then type media/image.jpg in the External Link Image attribute?
I appreciate a reply on this. This should be strightforward.
well to minimize any problem to this, you may want to use a full url path. http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/YOUR IMAGE LOCATION/YOURIMAGE.jpg
Hi Ahad,
For the list.phtml, it is used to show the list of products; for the view.phtml, it is used to show the individual product. So if you want to add a manufacturer link to both pages, you should add the codes in both phtml files.
In list.phtml, there is combined two modes into one file: grid mode and list mode. If you would like to add a manufacturer link to both modes, you should replace all the codes for "Add to Cart" button in list.phtml.
Hope this help, thanks.
–
Best Regards,
Michael Wai
http://www.waimichael.idv.hk http://www.unclemenu.com
cool. of course, and not to nitpick, but it looks like you're not just pasting code above this block. appears to also
require a closing curly after the button block. This should be obvious to coders, but I imagine a lot of lay people might try this and miss that important detail.
Hey, thanks for your code. This is working great in view.phtml.
But it does not work in list.phtml and I can't wrap my head around the mistake.
I am getting an error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDFOREACH in /kunden/300840_82057/…/template/catalog/product/list.phtml on line 101
Is there a solution for this?
Thank you for the post! Exactly what I needed!
If I ad this to a product will it show on the product display in the Wishlist?
Thanks!
Very Good article
Thanks
JeevanSathi
Hi Please help
I've followed your steps but it seems that I'm missing a part.
I only copied the code to view.phtml so that it is only at the individual product page but it brings an empty product page! http://gulegule.net/magento/category-1/product-1….
what am I doing wrong (magento 1.4.1.1)
I was wondering is there a way to just do a flat out redirect to the external link when you click the product from image view? This seems like it may work but I would love a suggestion about skipping the whole product page and going strait to the external buy site.