Inventory control by Attributes???

[iamshimone]

The link is in my sig below. It's called Stock by Attributes.

Hi Kuroi. Great mod you've got here. I've been searching high and low for a way to disable attributes from appearing in the dropdown if they are out of stock. It seems that the only way a user can tell an item is out of stock is once they add it to their cart. Your mod shows the status in the cart but not on the product page.

i.e.

Product Name: Mens Cool Jeans
Product Options:
Size 28 (5 are in stock)
Size 29 (5 are in stock)
Size 30 (0 in stock - should not display!)

I've tried digging through the core to see if I can add this but it's outside my skill set. Is this possible with your mod - even something like showing the number of items next to the size (as above) would be more helpful than forcing the customer to add to cart to see the stock.

Thanks again for the great mod. It's been tremendously useful thusfar.

[kuroi]

This question is covered at length in the support thread for this mod and is also mentioned in its wiki entry so I won't repeat it all here. But here's a potted summary ...

What you want would work fine for products that only have one attribute. For a product with two attributes, however, there may be stock for each attribute, but not in the combination that the customer chooses. The mod could display a table with one attribute on each axis, but that gets difficult for products with 3 or more attributes. So, alas, there is no generic solution to your problem.

What there is, is a specific solution that can be incorporated into the mod when a product has just one relevant attribute. If you do a search on "Grayson" you should find links to this.

[iamshimone]

Thanks for th quick reply. I will check out those areas for further research.

[iamshimone]

Here's the forum thread for the mod:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47180

[iamshimone]

Here's the wiki for this mod:
http://www.zen-cart.com/wiki/index.p..._by_Attributes

[pwdesign]

What there is, is a specific solution that can be incorporated into the mod when a product has just one relevant attribute. If you do a search on "Grayson" you should find links to this.

Grayson's mod is from Feb 2006 and details changes to the file: "main_template_vars_attributes.php". I can't locate this file anywhere. I am running 1.3.6 and I downloaded "stock_by_attributes_v4_3" Is this an old file that was eliminated in the newer release?

I'd appreciate any insight you can give me on this.

Thanks,
Pat

[pwdesign]

Grayson's mod is from Feb 2006 and details changes to the file: "main_template_vars_attributes.php". I can't locate this file anywhere. I am running 1.3.6 and I downloaded "stock_by_attributes_v4_3" Is this an old file that was eliminated in the newer release?

I'd appreciate any insight you can give me on this.

Thanks,
Pat

Anybody? Please!

[kuroi]

Grayson's mod is from Feb 2006 and details changes to the file: "main_template_vars_attributes.php". I can't locate this file anywhere. I am running 1.3.6 and I downloaded "stock_by_attributes_v4_3" Is this an old file that was eliminated in the newer release?

Yes it is. The adjustments are well-explained in another thread. I recommend searching on "Grayson".