Add new or change music filters

[AlteredVision]

I want to use the filtering that Zen Cart has built in but can only find very limited information on it. Is there any place that has a tutorial on how to either change the music filters or add in new ones of my own.

[Ajeh]

You might look at the add on plugins ... there is a nice one for music that adds addition sideboxes and listings based on music elements that is pretty nice ...

[AlteredVision]

I do not need sideboxes, I need to change the variables of the Music content. For older content there was the Book product type and there is a new one started for 1.5 but I just need to change the items for now or have someone point me in the direction of where to learn about this. I can not even find the old file to download to look at. They said they could do it without touching core files and did it all from the template folder.

I need to know how the genre and type filters are done.

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...-%28by-moku%29

[Ajeh]

What was nice about it was it added on the product_info page for music links for listings on:
Artist: Artist 1
Record Company: ABC Group
Music Genre: Rock

and the options for sideboxes for those ...

Once you see how it works, it might help you in adding your additional fields that you want or to better utilize the fields already there ...

[DrByte]

I need to know how the genre and type filters are done.

The SQL is done in /includes/index_filters/

[AlteredVision]

I must be explaining this wrong because I am not getting what I need.

I want to make a filter system just like Music with the filtering that it has, I do not want to use music. I am going to use it for a catalog that has nothing to do with music, I just want the filtering system that it uses. I need to either change the music setup or add in a new one. Is there any documentation on how to do this?

[DrByte]

Yes, you're not explaining it well.

You're assuming the music system will "just work" for whatever unexplained use you intend to apply it to. CAN YOU PLEASE BE MUCH MORE SPECIFIC?

The music filters re-use some internal things, such as (but not limited to) repurposing the 'manufacturer' for 'artists' ... and simply repurposing is very different than adding additional custom fields for very custom data that you wish to filter by.

WHAT do you want to filter?
WHAT extra data will you need to collect in order to filter it?
WHAT business problem will all of this specifically solve?
WHAT exact pieces of the "music filter" are the things you want to mimic? There are numerous things in the music stuff. Is it the sidebox dropdowns that you want? Is it the display of certain info on the product-info page that you want? Is it certain controls on the admin back-end that you want? Is it certain search-isolation things that you want, and which ones?
etc
etc
etc

Explain your end goal, and maybe we can help you better. You're jumping into presuming a certain technical implementation before first explaining the problem that you want to solve.