What do product attributes do?

[malyha1]

I want to add more descriptions/manufacturers to the books I am selling so that I can list them by categories, publishing companies, and by authors.

 

I am guessing that is what product attributes are for, right?

 

 

Thanks

[♥yesudo]

i dont think attributes will suit your dilemma.

 

an example of attribute use is HERE

 

you probably just want to create more categories so that a product can appear in more than one. or maybe look into how the dropdown list for maufacturers is done and try and replicate that.

 

unless i have missed somert.

[malyha1]

Thanks

 

I have two categories, one for each language. I also added the subcategories(subjects of book) to each language. I want to add codes so that 5when a language is selected, only its category subcategories are listed on the left.

 

I dont know php and am very scared to play with it. I played with other pages and made very simple changes but this is too big for me.

 

 

Thanks again

[♥yesudo]

don't be scared to play - just backup the files u want to edit first.

[malyha1]

Thanks for your encouragement. I added an if statement and it worked. However, I want to display the categories names in table field so that when someone hovers over them, they change colors. I tried by inserting <td> and <tr> but the table was displayed before the categories list. What am I doing wrong?

 

This is how it looks like

while ($categories = tep_db_fetch_array($categories_query))  {

/*I added the if statement inside the above while loop to display categories when languages are selected*/

if ($categories['categories_name']){?> <table width="100%" border="2" cellpadding="10"> <td><?php

$tree[$categories['categories_id']] = array('name' => $categories['categories_name'],

'parent' => $categories['parent_id'],

'level' => 0,

'path' => $categories['categories_id'],

'next_id' => false);

 

if (isset($parent_id)) {

$tree[$parent_id]['next_id'] = $categories['categories_id'];

}

 

$parent_id = $categories['categories_id'];

 

if (!isset($first_element)) {

$first_element = $categories['categories_id'];

}?></td></table>

<?php

} }

 

What am I doing wrong?