Adding a seperator inbetween options

[thomasharding]

Hey All,

After finally getting to grips of how attributes work on Zen Cart (took me the best part of 2 years!!) I have a question.

I have a client - a manufacturer of leather chairs. On his previous website, he listed all the leather he uses, lumped into categories.

For instance:

carrington leather
- Bourbon
- Espresso
- Jet Black

Pista Leather
- Caramel
- Cream
- Foresta

He would like this to be replicated on his website, but as product options, meaning he wants the customer to only be able to select one style of leather.

Easily done, except I'm not sure how I can seperate each set of options out.

I have a feeling I may have to add a dud option and just have to settle for a drop down box or something. However, the client would also like a swatch as well, which would make seperating those very hard also!


I'm in a conundrum!

Thanks,
Tom

[niccol]

Not sure this is an easy answer. Search for 'conditional attributes' on this forum. ( eg http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...nal+attributes ) A lot of people want it but haven't seen an easy answer yet. I may be wrong....

[thomasharding]

I've managed to find a way, at least a temporary way. You need to use attribute images for this.

Firstly, I create the attributes. This includes adding the seperator as an attribute as well.

Secondly, I go into attributes.php and find a line looking like:

 $tmp_attributes_image .= '<div class="attribImg">' . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $products_options->fields['attributes_image']) . (PRODUCT_IMAGES_ATTRIBUTES_NAMES == '1' ? '<br />' . $products_options->fields['products_options_values_name'] : '') . '</div>' . "\n"; 

Next, I change it into this line:

if (in_array($products_options->fields['products_options_values_id'],array(1,22,33,44,52,58,70))){
                        $tmp_attributes_image .= '<br clear="all" /><h1>' . str_replace('--','',$products_options->fields['products_options_values_name']) . '</h1>';
                    }else{
                      $tmp_attributes_image .= '<div class="attribImg">' . (PRODUCT_IMAGES_ATTRIBUTES_NAMES == '1' ? '' . $products_options->fields['products_options_values_name'] : '') . zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $products_options->fields['attributes_image']) . '</div>' . "\n";
                     } 

The numbers in the array are the ids of the attributes.

The first condition (if these attributes match the ids) is to display the attribute text, not image.

Not the best of ways, but its helped me.