Link Attribute Option To Another Product

[gjh42]

You will have to explain in more detail how you want this "link" to work. We can't answer from this. It sounds like you may be looking at a significant coding job, depending on what you really want.

[antoineyow]

Check this out: I need a poor man's version of this... http://www.shopbop.com/actions/quick...TB_iframe=true click on the color option and see what happens.

The way I imagine it working is:

ADMIN
- admin create an option name, add a value and then add it to a product
- when adding the attribute to the product there should be a textbox to input a link (similar to the Price and Weight section where you can add custom value to a single option).

USER
- frontend browsing works the same, the only difference is if they are on a product with multiple option (please view link http://www.11redpixels.com/z/color_switch.gif) once they click on cinnamon it take them to that product.
- so basically it will work as a "product swap".

Thats how I think it works, honestly not sure. I have never seen anything like it

[gjh42]

That's not going to a different product; it's just showing images for the same product in the selected color. It would require some custom javascript. There are mods in Free Addons for image swapping, but I don't think they work quite like this.

[gjh42]

I think you have made the job harder by separating the colors into different products. With the usual arrangement of attributes, you could build some javascript that would edit the base image name when a selection is made. It might work best to code the PHP to look up variants on the base image name according to some attribute information, find all the images that correspond to those base names, and put this info into some form that is accessible to js. Then have the js swap sets of images on change of whatever attribute is relevant.

[antoineyow]

The store uses a lot of different modules that wouldn't allow me to just have a single product with multiple options like that. I guess I am going to have to create a my own version.
Thanks for clarifying things for me!