Vanilo 3.4 has been released with first-party configurable product support for cart & order items.

#Configurable Items

Products that the user can customize are common in the E-commerce. Typical examples are:

• Burger with extra chilli and cheese,
• Mugs with custom text and picture,
• Event tickets with the attendees' names,

just to name a few.

The configuration is the property of the cart/order item and not the product itself, therefore the configuration data has to be stored along with those items.

To store the configuration with a cart item use the following code:

use Vanilo\Cart\Facades\Cart;

Cart::addItem($product1, 1, ['attributes' => ['configuration' => ['mug_text' => 'I love pizza']]]);

#Other Configurables

Besides the CartItem and OrderItem models, the following ones have also become configurable:

• Carrier,
• Shipment,
• ShippingMethod,
• PaymentMethod.

These models used to be configurable even in earlier versions of Vanilo, but with this release, their configuration has been made standard and uniform.

#Find By SKU

With this release, both the MasterProdcutVariant and Product models have a static findBySku($sku) method.