Hi.

Right now our site is very sluggish due to multiple attributes per product. We are also using the attributes to product listing module found here in the forum (it allows us to display the attributes in the product listing).

The issue we have is that for every product we have 6 attributes (each with the alphabet and 0-9 as choices). The attributes are the same, except we have them declared 6 times (to allow customer to choose 6 letters or initials in their order). Due to this, multiplied by 1000+ products, the site loads very slow, like 1+ minute to load a page.

So my question is, can we create just one set of attributes and have it show up 6 times in each product? This way there is no strain in the database and teh system. If so, how do we accomplish this? I tried replicating the $options_menu[$i] variable found in attributes_listing.php. However, how do we get them to show up in the shopping cart and in the succeeding pages, like checkout etc. I'm not sure how the zencart engine works and not sure how to pass the variable to the different pages needed.

Can anyone help? I;m sure there are others facing something similar of an issue.

Thanks