Dokan Product Edit Allows Blank Values – Including Title

Hello,

I have checked and found the issue. I will notify to our developer about this.

Thank you 🙂

Hello,

After checking this again i found that WooCommerce is managing this system like this. If you want then you can check from your backend.

Thanks.

Since the dokan product edit form is a front-end public form; I think it is important for Dokan to include verification of the fields during editing.

Woocommerce management is done from a single store owner point of view. It is highly unlikely that a store manager would intentionally submit empty fields, and would quickly realize the mistake.

Where as Dokan is branching off of woocommerce to allow a multi-vendor store front. This becomes a public usage system; we can not assume that every member/user will be diligent in doing things perfect (and not require notification) or to not intentionally attempt to deface a site or perform malicious acts.

From a usability stand point as well; if the title is not submitted and saved, the product list will show products without titles (seller dashboard). Therefore in the event the member has direct publish privilege: the site could end up with multiple items without titles. This would lead to confusion for both seller and consumers. A hundred blank products would not only be a nuisance but a potential public embarrassment for the site in general.

Dokan has taken the time to create validation for new product submit. Here is a little snippet:

dokan/classes/template-shortcodes.php

function handle_all_submit()

$post_title = trim( $_POST[‘post_title’] );
if ( empty( $post_title ) ) {
$errors[] = __( ‘Please enter product title’, ‘dokan’ );
}

Although missing verification or feedback for most of the fields – you can see here that the title is being checked within Dokan.

I would think it should be a priority to extend this function to verify the edit $_POST data as well, or a variation of this function. (along with the default fields for new products, title, content, price etc).

I would hate to have to put the time into this, as I expected form validation. I think form verification is extremely important and should not be taken lightly. I’m not trying to be too critical here or offend but I do want to stress that this is something I would assume all purchasers of dokan would expect.

I’ll write my own form verification cause we need it.

I do see that the new product form does not verify most fields either – and includes no notification or feedback to the user. (And loses the data on a failed submit –> the main content <-- should I open a new bug report for this?). This could easily lead to member confusion and frustration, leading to the loss of a potential seller and loss of revenue for the site. Anyway this is just my two cents on the topic and thought you should be aware; as well as notes to help improve the dokan product for us all. (and maybe save some time coding all this myself) Dokan is a very important product for me, I had planned to write a multi-vendor system for wordpress for a very long time. The blunt of the work is done in Dokan, so I have sort of a personal commitment and expectations that other may or may not share. Please know that I am very happy with the product and am just pointing out features or processes that I would expect to find in my own code.

Hello,

Thank you very much for pointing us those important thing. I will discuss with our developer team about this whole thing. I will post here again after the discussion with the developer team about this validation matter.

Thanks.

Hello,

In our next update we will fix all those thing in the add product and edit product section.

Thanks.