Collect Info Through Tabs In New Style (CITTINS) [Support Thread]

[Design75]

This is the support thread fot CITTINS v1.0
for now it can be downloaded from: github

What does this module do?

The current collect info page can be quite long, specially when having multiple languages, and extra fields. This is not very user friendly. Therefore I started searching for a better solution.
After looking at many other shopping cart frameworks, I have a pretty good idea of how I want the new collect info page to look. It will be a page with tabs for different categories of information. The default tabs are:

• General
• Data
• Manufacturer
• Image

This is the information that is currently available by default on the product collect info pages, with one exception, I added the meta tags to the collect page.
Extra Tabs

There are some extra tabs available at this time of writing:

• Discounts
  
  • This tab can be used to add quantity discounts to a product. Although it is a standard function in Zen Cart it is well hidden
  
  
• Information
  
  • Very basic, needs updating with more useful info
  
  
• Product Attributes
  
  • This tab adds the full functionality off the Attributes controller page to your product edit page.
  
  
• Category
  
  • Adds the ability to link products to multiple categories, and to set the master category.

Future development

In future releases I plan on adding extra info, by using more drop in modules. This way others can contribute by writing their own tabs, that will be included by dropping the files in a specific folder (for example: admin/includes/modules/extra_tabs). Extra tabs that are planned are:

• Specials / featured (maybe one tab, combined in the Discounts tab, or multiple)
• Product history
• Product reports (Views, purchases, etc.)
• Also I a want to add ajax to add things like (additional) images dynamically, or a dynamic preview eliminating the need for the preview_info.php, and update_product.php files.

Some screen shots
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