"Browse By" Function for Product Listing

[innovafire]

I am setting up a site for a compnay that sells dog products, and the client would like to have something set up where the customer can not only choose a category of product, like "dog bowls", but also so that there can be a drowndown list that is a "Browse by Breed" which, when they choose a breed would populate a product list with everything that has that breed name in the title.

Is there a mod in existence that can accomplish this?

A good example of this is http://www.planet-gizmo.com/ where on the left a person can shop by breed.

Any advice would be great!

Chris

[innovafire]

Anybody got a clue?

[goosedesign]

I reckon it would take some customisation. You'd need to add a new field, 'breed' to the products table in the database and then integrate it with both the admin and front end of the shop. It would work similarly to 'manufacturer'.

Alternatively, you could create a category for each breed, or possibly, if you didn't need the manufacturer field, you could use it for breeds instead.

Just found this:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=57924
which should help with the former option.