Jump to content
  • Checkout
  • Login
  • Get in touch

osCommerce

The e-commerce.

How to sort products by options/attributes in infobox?


longhorn1999

Recommended Posts

Hi everyone,

 

I've been using osC 2.2 for a while, but I have a pretty basic question that I haven't been able to definitively answer looking through the forum.

 

Obviously in the left column we can sort products by categories or manufacturers. And the 'Shop by Price' add-on lets us easily sort products by price.

 

But how can I make a new infobox to sort by color or size for instance? Is there a way to sort products by use, if for instance each product has a specific target audience?

 

And if there is a way, do the drop-down boxes at the bottom of the body in product_info.php need to be visible every time? For example, I'd like to have a box in the left column to sort products by size, but I'd rather not have an extra attribute box below color (which has multiple options) just for size (which has only 1 option per product).

 

 

AJAX Attributes Manager

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/4063

 

Option Types V2

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6818

 

I'm guessing that these 2 add-ons are my best bet, but could someone confirm whether or not I'm on the right track?

 

Thanks for the help

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Upon further review I see that others have similar questions about sorting products through attributes in the left column:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/topic/351915-attribute-filter-for-products-listingphp/

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/topic/362816-sort-by-size/

 

Searching again through the add-ons, I see 2 that might be a solution, though I know from the forum that only one or

the other is needed.

 

Product Specifications by Kymation

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/7014

 

or

 

Extra Product Fields v2.31 by Wdepot

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6856

 

Or maybe attributes can be sorted through a simpler modification of advanced_search_result.php, as in these 2 add-ons:

 

Attribute Filter Drop-downs

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5997

 

or

 

Advanced Search - Attributes

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2337

 

 

 

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should proceed? I would've installed Product Specifications or Extra Fields

already but my files are heavily modified because of Spooks' old Product Listing Enhancements and Simple Multi-Images with

Fancybox and so these mods are difficult.

 

Any ideas are much appreciated...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Well I haven't had any feedback here, though I have come across some paid solutions for filtered navigation.

 

Unfortunately Extra Product Fields v2.31 and Product Specifications which I referred to above are extremely difficult

to install if you already have Product Listing Enhancements and/or Simple Multi-Images w/ FancyBox (both by Spooks)

already installed in 2.2RC2a.

 

I've found though that Product Extra Fields is easy to install. But I'm not 100% sure what the next step here would be to

put a specialized search box in a column with dropdowns for these new fields.

 

I do see that one of the very best sites built with osC is the entire family of sites at electricgeneratorsdirect dot com. The

navigation they have in their left column is pretty sophisticated compared to a base install.

 

Any ideas on the type of roadmap that would be needed to build something like this?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...