Need to show various choices per item

[kniton2004]

We are selling yarn. One yarn may have 60 different colors. I would like for the customer to go to the item and see all of the 60+ colors we carry where each color has a button where they can select it and add however many they want to their cart. The way osCommerce is set up seems to me each color has to be an item. We have hundreds of yarns each with many colors and many numbers are repeated but for different colors, so the attributes don't work. Here is a page that is more like what we want:

 

http://knittingzone.com/catalog/index.php?...rn-by-name-eros

 

but we want to have thumbnails where we could fit more on a page, Maybe 3-4 columns of thumbnails with selection boxes by them.

 

Does anyone know if there is a contribution for this already?

 

Thanks,

Dave

[Wendy James]

there is a contribution that allows you to show images as options.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...tions+as+images

 

should do most of what you want... atleast allow them to choose the colors by looking at them. May have to see if you can modify it with a contribution that allows you to add more than one item at a time but not sure how well that would go.

[kniton2004]

Hi Wendy,

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Now I have a really basic question. I have only used osCommerce online. I have no idea how to download it to my computer and go into the html (is that even the right name - the code???). Can you point me in the right direction to find how to do that?

 

Thanks

Dave

[Wendy James]

Depends on your host Dave. You either log in through an admin panel via your host or you use an ftp program (even IE if you have windows xp) if you use an ftp program you will need to type in something like ftp.mysite.com then enter your user name and password or if you use IE then you type in ftp://mysite.com just like you would if you were going to a website. Then you will have to choose the correct folder. Most hosts use public_html as the folder name but they are all different. your host probably has a help area somewhere that tells you how to do all of this.

 

You will need some kind of editer, everyone has their preferences but you can do a search online for free ones or use notepad if you can't find one.

 

Then you just download the files you need to edit, edit it and then reupload it to where you took it from.

 

Most of the contributions have very good instructions on how to install them, just take your time and remember to backup your files before you do any editing incase something goe wrong.

 

Hope that helped.

[rgloverd]

Hi,

Could someone show me a site that uses the option as image contribution? Would be good to see it in action before I try and add it myself,

Thanks,

Richard