Can I Do This With Attributes????

[mafiasam]

http://5stardeal.com/expand.asp?pro=10173&subcat=

I would like to be able to give my customers the ability to completely customize their order by case, chips, cards, dice, dealer buttons on one page. Can this be done with attributes or is it going to take additional work/coding?

my site:
http://www.oldwestgames.com

my resources:
I do have a decent understanding of CSS.
Very little knowledge of PHP.
I have Adobe GoLive.
my zencart version is 1.3.0.2
I am using a modified future zen template.

thanks
Sam

[gjh42]

You can certainly do all of the customizing choices with attributes, except for automatically balancing customer-entered different quantities of different chips to a set total.

You can use radiobuttons to toggle between quantities of each kind of chip (50, 100, 150...) with the difference in price noted alongside each option, if the total quantity can vary.

If the total needs to stay at 500 chips, you can offer as many variations as you wish to display on radiobuttons:

() 200 Blue, 200 Red, 100 Green
() 300 Blue, 150 Red, 50 Green
() 250 Blue, 150 Red, 100 Green
...

but a dynamically balanced mix is going to require some custom programming.

[mafiasam]

You can certainly do all of the customizing choices with attributes, except for automatically balancing customer-entered different quantities of different chips to a set total.

You can use radiobuttons to toggle between quantities of each kind of chip (50, 100, 150...) with the difference in price noted alongside each option, if the total quantity can vary.

If the total needs to stay at 500 chips, you can offer as many variations as you wish to display on radiobuttons:

() 200 Blue, 200 Red, 100 Green
() 300 Blue, 150 Red, 50 Green
() 250 Blue, 150 Red, 100 Green
...

but a dynamically balanced mix is going to require some custom programming.

Okay, I can understand that. Now I just have to learn how to actually accomplish it.

Any advice would be appreciated.

[kobra]

Mafiasam,

for a "Custom Kit" You could start with the container/case as a product
i.e. Custom Set in Aligator Case and then use the cross sell mod to populate the contents

X-Sell:
chips
cards
dice
Dealer buttons

If the Xsell does not exceed 6 items you might also just xsell the cases also and have only one product for custom sets.

The xsold products will have to be set up with attributes as gjh42 posted.