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Creating Search by Pulldown?


zl9600

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Hello forum!

 

I am hoping to find either a module or some advice on implementing a search functionality for an osc site that sells clothing for babies, kids, infants, etc.

 

We want to create a search by pulldown that will search everything by a chosen size or by a chosen age range. Mainly because most shoppers are not in need of form-field loose search definitions, they shop by size and age range of the person they are buying for, that's about it (they don't know/care about brand name, etc)

 

The first solution was to create something that worked off the size module. This created a huge pulldown list, because some size specifications are different depending on the product (Some fit a range of sizes, some fit an age). This didn't work very well, because if you had a product with a size in stock that was "Small" for example, that would turn up in the results from seraching by "Small" in the pulldown.

 

However, where the problem is that there if I search by "3 Months", which also would correspond to "Small", I would *only* get items whose size (as determined by the product stock size) matched "3 Months", and the "Small" item, while very relevant, just would not show up. I need something that can search ACROSS multiple categories, that is admin/user defined in the admin panel.

 

So my question is, is there a module or a way I could give the admin panel an ability to add new sizes and then in the product section, choose which sizes/category that product would apply to so that when someone did a query via the pulldown, it would know which products to pull?

 

Hopefully this isn't too little or too much detail. Any advice would be great. Thanks!

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