A more refined product search

Website Rob:

Isn't that similar to when Amazon was being sued because someone thought they had Patented the 'one-click checkout'?I see what you mean, but not really. Amazon wanted to stop other people from being allowed to build one-click checkouts. Whereas here, not only is it accepted that other people may wish to build similar search functionality that meets their requirements, I've even outlined how to do it! :thumbsup:

kuroi:

For reasons that are hopefully obvious, I don't plan to enter into discussion about the contractual arrangement between myself and a client.

However, it's worth noting that this was a large, complex and very specific development and is unlikely to be of much use to anybody else anyway. However, the overall approach would be, and that is freely available earlier in this thread.

Yes. It is obvious, but don't sell yourself short. Google saw much use of Page Rank where Yahoo did not and at this point in time, I'd rather be in Google's shoes than Yahoo's. One day I, myself, would like to have enough profits to support a major open source project, but for now I just have to try to put dinner on the table, which isn't easy.

Anyway thanks for sharing the pseudocode. It is more than enough for anyone to go to elance.com to get it done for their own stores.

softomatic:

don't sell yourself short.:D Not something of I'm usually accused!!! The primary reason that it would be of little use to anycody else was that there were multiple points at which the development became very specific to the client's business and probably only somebody in the same line of business trying to do the same thing would benefit from it.

softomatic:

Anyway thanks for sharing the pseudocode. It is more than enough for anyone to go to elance.com to get it done for their own stores.You're welcome, though I'd recommend using this forum's commercial help wanted section rather than general freelance sites - like most people specialising in Zen Cart, while establishing my client portfolio, I went through a depressing phase fixing botches undertaken by developers claiming to be able to work on Zen Cart but actually lacking the knowledge of the underlying architecture to do so effectively. A development of this complexity really needs a specialist, and they're more likely to be found via this site.

Hi,

I totally respect your decision not to post code. I really appreciate your point of view, and your outline of the technique helped me in the long run. I was able to read through your example and basically get this rocking the way I want.

I did learn a great deal from your words, and in retrospect, having to figure this out myself without example code took a little bit longer but made me have a firmer understanding of underlying structure. I am now a bit better than before.

That's what this community is all about, there are so many different levels of expertise, but we all share the common goal, to keep a strong user foundation of Zen Cart and build one another up. :flex:

so - thanks for all the times you give to this community Kuroi, it's appreciated.

Elastic, how many hours did you put into that project?

Can I add a +1 to wanting to have the ability of a drop-down populated with attributes able to be searched. For example: A clothing store would have all the items listed in a category and then I'd like to have the sizes there so only the products available in certain sizes be shown.

I have been searching for codes to have a search by attribute function too, but no luck. However I do like the refine search from this zen cart:

http://www.absolute-solutions.co.uk/test/zen/138/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3_10

Is there any way we can see or get the code for this refine search function? Thank you.

I think if your not posting code you should stop clogging up the forum!

I think if your not posting code you should stop clogging up the forum! :smile: