Add additional information to a field of a content type

Question

Let's say I have a content type Order. It has two fields:

Product1 with values 1-10 and Product2 with values 1-10. I am looking for a way to assign prices to the fields.

For example:

Product1*1 = 10

Product1*2 = 20

...

Product2*1 = 20

Product2*2 = 40

So if someone chooses value 2 of Product1 and value 2 of Product2 the system should calculate 40. I will do the calculation with a custom module, I am just looking for a easy way to define these prices.

Answer 1

Some solutions you have:

1) create field Product with multi values to content type Order bases on a table field. Module : https://www.drupal.org/project/tablefield

In this table you can attached the prices and with a custom module do the counting.

2) Create content type Order, create content type Product. In content type Product add a field price. Make a relation to entity from Order to Product.

3) Make use of ubercard. This will define products, cards and as far I can remember the recalculation of the card can be refreshed easily

4) Make use of Drupal Commerce, I know it is possible in there but never used it.

Let me know if you need more details.

Answer 2

I think I understand what you are trying to do - if you are not using Drupal Commerce, you should be. It will do a lot of this for you, including calculating complex products made of compound attributes. I really would not try to do this with a few content types and fields, something is bound to get missed or you will run into edge cases that Commerce has likely already solved.

You can set up a Commerce site even if users are not doing any on-site checkout just to handle product, pricing, and calculating within its commerce engine, Views, and Rules.

There are lots of contributed price and discount style modules for Commerce, give them a look through and see what could suit you:

https://drupalcommerce.org/taxonomy/term/2564