Drop down product choices

[JnJSpdShop]

I tried searching, but didn't really find what I was looking for. I am a total OScommerce newb so please bear with me.

 

What I am trying to do is find out the way to add drop down menus under a product right before you add it to the cart.

 

For example I am selling widgets. You click and it shows a picture of a black widget for say $5.00 then at the bottom under the description there is a drop down menu for different colors like red, blue, and green. Red widgets are $1.00 additional, blue are $2.00 addition, etc to the price of the plain black widget. I want to figure out how to do this??

 

Thanks

NEWB 007

[JnJSpdShop]

Well I did a bit more reading and found out attributes is the thing I want. Sorry for the dumb question post

[Guest]

Jason,

 

Lots of information already in the forums and the KB as you've seen. Thanks for posting that it's solved.

 

ed

[Matt_M]

But if I have blue widgets that are 3 dollars each and red widgets that are 7 dollars each, but they are each also available in different sizes for a few bucks more, is there a way to put all of that in one item page, or do I have to make seperate pages for both blue and red widgets?

 

Thanks

[Guest]

Matt,

 

You can put it all in one page. You can have one attribute be color and one be size. Each attribute option can have a +/- price modifier so you could have:

Product Foo $3.00

Color:

Blue

Red +$4

Size:

Sm

Md

Lg +$1

 

Blue Small is $3 but Red Large is $3 + 4 + 1 = $8. osCommerce will do this standard. Adding quantities to the option combinations takes a contribution called QTPro.

 

ed

[outputcentral]

Hi!

Another Newbie here too...

I am needing another function of the options pulldowns I don't see.

 

I have products that I need to sell... Vehicle accessories. Is it possible to have the attributes return a value based on another pulldown? I have hundreds of items that have a model number based on the make/model/year of the customers vehicle.

 

ie... Bumper

 

attribute --- ford, chevy, dodge

 

attribute --- explorer, surburban, durango

 

attribute --- 1987, 1988, 1989

 

I want it to put all this information into the basket along with the result from a lookup table. ie... 1987, ford, explorer = model # 12345

I can narrow it down by listing each item per manufacturer... "ford bumper"

 

Then I only have the model and year to put in attributes. Can I make a field like the "Add" field, that, based on the attributes chosen, will add a part number to the description??

 

Open to ideas (trying to make entering thousands of parts with multiple options painless)

Thanks

Lou