show options as separate products on product_info.php

[glenda]

Hi!

 

I know this question has been asked a few times before here in the forums, but I couldn't locate a solution.

 

I would like the product options to show up as separate products with different model numbers on the product_info page. In other words, if there are 4 options I want there to be 4 "BUY NOW" buttons, similar to the product listing.

 

Does anyone have any ideas? Or is there a contribution for this?

 

Thank you.

 

PS: I was thinking of just making each option a separate product and then making the subcategory page act as the product_info.php page. Does that make sense?

This would cause a problem when customers search for products. What a pain :(

 

Please help me!

[cgchris99]

This is one problem that has been discussed many times about oscommerce. There isn't an easy way to make a product model change based on a attribute.

 

I too could use this option. I am surprised someone hasn't modified it to produce exactly what you are talking about.

 

Your idea is the first one I have heard that sounds like a good possible option.

 

Good luck and if you find a solution, please post it.

[Guest]

I too am looking for the same thing although I would settle just for the attributes to have different model numbers. That alone would make me happy.

Right now I will end up with thousands of items because 1 item has 8 or more options. It is a pain to create new ites each time and a pain to have the item with options/attributes but no item numbers to distinguish. Causes confusion in packaging dept.

[Guest]

there is a cross-sell module that you could tailor to your needs:

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,334

[glenda]

meltus: I tried looking at the demo for the cross-sell module to see if it is what I'm looking for, but the site is down.

 

cgchris99: You can see what I have done using the subcategory page as the product_info.php on my temporary site...this link won't be good for long. http://www.plazmaart.com/rocknroll/default.php

[cgchris99]

glenda,

 

I think I see what you did. It looks like a clean way to do it. How much work is it to setup this way?

[glenda]

You simply use the subcategory page as the product page and make each option a separate product. I will eventually remove the links to the individual product_info page, because with this setup the product_info page is not needed. The customer simply adds to cart with the buy now button.

 

The part I haven't figured out yet is how I should display the search results. As is is now, clicking on a product brings the customer to the product_info page. I need to be able to display the search results by category > subcategory and not have the actual products clickable. Does that make sense? I hope so. Any ideas on how to accomplish this would be great. I may start a new thread and title it accordingly.