Specify product length

[Lotharz0r]

Hi,

In my shop i will sell textile products that can be cut to custom lengths.

The customer has to be able to choose length, preferably in a text-box where he can type in the length he wants.

 

The minimum length the customer can buy is 0,5 meter, and he must increase length by minimum 0,05 meter.

 

The price also has to be calculated from the amount of meters the customer choose.

 

I have searched the contribution-pages, but haven't found a contribution that does this.

Does it exist a such contrib, or can anyone give me a hint in how to make it?

 

I have made a modification that makes the customer able to choose the amount of one product he wants, but that doesn't to the trick since he must be able to choose 0,7 or 1,5 and so on.

 

I hope someone has a solution for this. I can't be the only one with this problem.

[dave111]

Setup product attributes by going to:

Admin -> Catalog -> Product Attributes

 

Create an option called 'Length', then create the option values for the lengths that you wish to offer (such as '0.5 meters', '0.7 meters' etc...).

 

Then add these options to the products. (at this point you can set a price for each length)

 

If you have a lot of products this could become a time consuming process, so you may want to try this to speed things up:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3610

[Lotharz0r]

That would make a list so long that it would be very confusing and difficult to use for the customer.

 

A text-box where the customer can type in the length is what I want.

[Lotharz0r]

No one got a solution for this?

• Text box where the customer can type in length
  
• The price must be calculated from the user input. The price per meter is the price of the product
  
• A listbox from the included attributes in oscommerce or attributes sets plus is not good enough
  

[dave111]

You could use this:

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,160

 

Which would give you the textbox attribute options, for a starting point.

 

From that point on it would all be custom coding.