Options Based On Other Options

[laurenjj]

Hi...I'm sure this has come up before, but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to go about doing the following:

I have a product that can have different options...and if some of those options are chosen, there are new options that need to appear. Here's a hypothetical....Say I have a standard kids back-to-school item pack. It comes in 'boys' or 'girls' colors. Then you can have the additional option of having it monogrammed. Now you can either have a 1 line monogram or a 2 line monogram. So I'd like to have that be a drop down option that only appears IF the customer chooses the monogram option. Then if they choose the 1 line monogram option, a single line text field appears...and if they choose the 2 line monogram option, a double line text field appears. Now obviously they are all different prices, but the final price depends on which options are chosen.

I know there must be a mod for populating dropdown boxes depending on another field but I can't find any and I don't want to install something that 'may' be what I'm looking for but may be nothing even close. Something Ajax related? Any suggestions?

[stevesh]

This is known as 'dependent attributes' and Zencart can't do it yet, and there is no mod I'm aware of.

[laurenjj]

So by implementing the Stock by attributes mod, along with the dynamic dropdown mod I was able to almost get this working....My problem is that now, every field is treated as a dropdown even if it isn't.... For instance, I have a picture frame which is available in black and white. It is also available in 4x6 and 5x7. It can also be engraved. Now after implementing all the various mods the problem I've run into is that even though the 'Engrave' field is set to a TEXT field, the form on the actual order page is treated as dropdown and obviously you can't enter text into a dropdown....

I've been scratching my head (and pulling out my hair) trying to figure out how to fix this and the last possible thing I can think of is this....:

Since there are very few products on my site that allow for engraving, I wouldn't be opposed to have the TEXT field in the form being totally independent of the rest of the product form since technically, the item can't be out of stock anyway. I'd even have a popup or something that asked for the engrave name but I'd need that name to pass back to me so I could actually see it...

Any ideas on how???