attribute quantity box

[PRedmond]

Hello all.

The site in question is my wife's site. I did the custom coding necessary to display the stock on hand.

There is no module available that I am aware of that replicates this functionality.

For those of you technically minded, it is really just a matter of filling two multi-dimensional arrays and looping through them to write out the html required for the table.

The first array is filled with the attribute type names and becomes the column heading contents.

The second array is filled with the attribute value names and includes the quantity as a final element within each array row.

The most difficult part of this was calculating the correct nested loops to ensure that we would always have only 3 "columns" of information and it would be limited to a maximum of 30 items per "column".

The display itself is rendered as an html table and is styled using css.

Hope this helps get you started.


Jim

Hey crankyjim - are you still around? I am going to modify the 'Stock By Attributes' mod to solve this problem (well, I'm going to give it a go!!). It sure does sound like it would be helpful to have a look at your code... would you mind?

Not sure when the next release of Zen Cart is planned, or if there are guidelines for making mods compatible with future versions? If so, now would be a great time to find out, so I don't have to re-write everything in 6 weeks...!

Cheers,
Pat

[cliffvt]

Hey guys

In case you haven't noticed, you can install 2 add-ons that make this work quite easily, Stock By Attributes

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_47&products_id=310

and also Product Attribute Grid

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=876

- when both of these are installed, you can set up an attribute grid with either one attribute or two. See example from my website below. Customers are able to choose a combination of the number of tickets they require for a specific performance, and ticket type. In addition by adding a 3rd value for each attribute, and setting only that combination to one with stock, they are able to make a once-time donation as well!

See here:

Cheers

Cliff

[FunkyPapa]

After having a few chats with the gentleman that hosts our website. He wrote coding in it for us to show stock by attribute in this type of grid

It splits stuff by color and size and then shows the quantity you have in the box with it as well as an input box for qty wanted to buy. I'm sure this could work for anything with attributes like shirts, clothing etc.

If you need more help than the coding you can see from the page source send me a msg and I can forward his name and ways to get in touch with him.

[kobra8]

Another request for this one.
Is there somebody who can solve this BIG problem!!!!