Enhanced product attributes

[seaxouri]

I am brand new to osCommerce, and am starting a basic online store website. Primarily we are selling food products, and I would like to add additional fields that can be filled in for each item. For example, the amount of calories or fat grams in a product.

I really did not want to put these in the description area, because I may decide to use the values at a later date. For example, one thing we would like to do is to have predefined selectable meals, where a customer could pick from a list of recipies, and by selecting a recipie would dump everything needed to make that recipie into their shopping cart. However, I would like to be able to dynamically show the number of calories/fat grams/etc in the meal by summing the appropriate fields.

Does anyone know of a module or method that exists to allow the addition of attributes like this? The product/attributes feature in OSC seems to be more centered around product options, and not product information (e.g. shirt sizes or colors) and how they may affect prices (if at all). I just want to be able to add new data fields.

Of course I realize I could just add these to the database and code in new fields myself, but it seemed like a common thing people might want.

 

TIA for any help.

-Sean

[seaxouri]

Any assistance on this one?

 

I went thru all the modules, and even listed them in a post with what they did and how they differ from this request. Unfortunately, while looking at a GIF of one of the last ones, the launch of the GIF was directed at the web browser instance used to hold my post (this field I am typing in now), and when I hit the 'back' button, I lost all of my text. It took me over an hour to gather all that information, and I was pretty po'ed when it happened, but suffice it to say, I could not locate a module that offered what I was asking.

 

Does anyone know of such a module (here or elsewhere), and can you provide a link to it?

 

Thanks.