Continuing this thread here http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=188949

Another problem I ran into. PartStream is working right now and it adds products to the cart.
It generates link like this

Code:
index.php?action=buy_now&m=59297&arireturnurl={arireturnurl}&ariqty={aripartqty}&ariprice=76.13&aribrand=TO
So request to ZC looks like this

action buy_now
m 59297
ariqty 1
ariprice 76.13
aribrand TO


m=59297 - model number
aribrand=TO - manufacturer

The problem is that one company(TORO) bought two others (exmark and lawn-boy) and most of the parts are having same model number, the difference is in price.
So I have to have all parts from three "different" manufacturers in catalog, and most of them have same model numbers. I will have around 300k parts in catalog and even different parts(not just manufacturers) would have same model number.

Here are the questions. Is there a way to make zen cart pick the product by its manufacturer AND model, not just model? What have to be done to prevent linking products if they have same model but different manufacturers. How to make abbreviations of manufacturers for aribrand, so Toro=TO, Briggs & Stratton=BRG, etc ?

Any help would be great.

p.s.

I know DrByte got something to say