Send product attributes to store via external link?

[chamber715]

I wanted to offer prints of various artwork on my site via my oscommerce storefront but didn't want to create an individual item in the store for every piece of artwork. (It's not really feasible to create a separate item for each piece of artwork since there are thousands of pieces already and new ones being added each week.) So what I wanted to do was create a dummy item in the store that has a couple of blank product attributes. On the main site, each piece of artwork would have a link to that dummy item in the store but with a variable that would be passed to the blank product attribute field so that I'd know which print to ship out.

 

Can osCommerce do this already or is there a contribution that enables functionality like this? Or is there a better way to do something similar that I'm not thinking about?

[chooch]

If I understand what you are asking correctly, then I think it will not be easy to achieve. If you are not familiar with oscommerce then it will hinder you even more. Oscommerce attributes are added via the product info page and do not generally have their own URL, the main item product info page is the URL link (not the main page product info page + attribute name).

 

Once at the product info page, a customer should select the attribute they want and obtain the price (+- if necessary)

 

For example, if there are 6 attributes to one item, the URL is the same by default:

 

Item: Shirt

Attribute 1: white

Attribute 2: beige

Attribute 3: grey

Attribute 4: yellow

Attribute 5: black

Attribute 6: blue

 

I would advise you to create a main product to direct your customers to and let them choose their required attributes as you will encounter issues trying to direct them to an attributes ready page.

[chamber715]

But theoretically, wouldn't passing the variable for a product attribute to the product info page be the same as passing the variable for the product itself to the product page? Could you force osCommerce to add a "grey shirt" to the shopping cart as opposed to a "blue shirt" through some URL string?

 

I would rather not have to enter the attributes manually nor have my customers choose the attributes manually from a list because the list would literally be in the thousands and it would need to be updated on a weekly basis.