Which attribute manager to choose?

[Guest]

Hi.. can you please help me with the following question??

 

I want to make my live a bit easier by installing an attribute handler. It seems there are 2 contribs which do the the trick:

 

1) Alternative Attribute Handling

 

2) New Attribute Manager

 

Can anyone tell me the difference between the two cause it seems to me they both do the same thing: creating a grid on the products edit sheet to for easy adding/deleting etc. of the attributes within the product sheets !

 

Hope you can tell me ! thx in advance,

 

Meano

[jacopo]

Hi all.

I have serious doubt with the entire attributes system.

 

in my shop, each product has about 25 attributes. Some of them have up to 30 options (i am not creazy, i am selling prescription lenses!)

 

Now, because the system the way it is now make me save EACH option for EACH attributes for EACH product, my attributes table has about 260 options for each product. is already about to blow.

 

according to my understanding of the problem, i should build a template of attributues(and related options) then apply it to the selected articles.

so i shouldnt have a product_to_attributesOptions any more, but a product_to_template only.

 

when i display product_info.php i should load all the information related to the product + all the attributes in the linked template. thats it.

 

I am wrong? am i missing any important information in my logic?

 

please advice on this. Please let me know if any one has worked on this before.

thanks

[Guest]

Hi all.

I have serious doubt with the entire attributes system.

 

in my shop, each product has about 25 attributes. Some of them have up to 30 options (i am not creazy, i am selling prescription lenses!)

 

Now, because the system the way it is now make me save EACH option for EACH attributes for EACH product, my attributes table has about 260 options for each product. is already about to blow.

 

according to my understanding of the problem, i should build a template of attributues(and related options) then apply it to the selected articles.

so i shouldnt have a product_to_attributesOptions any more, but a product_to_template only.

 

when i display product_info.php i should load all the information related to the product + all the attributes in the linked template. thats it.

 

I am wrong? am i missing any important information in my logic?

 

please advice on this. Please let me know if any one has worked on this before.

thanks