Best Way to Link Products

Hello there,

I am planning on having a genre links where I want to link products to. Just wondering what is the best way to do this? Should I create a new page and have a lot of "a href" links or should I create a new category folder and link the products there?

Talking of new pages, how do you exactly make one? I have used all page 2, 3, 4 and need some more.

Thx

To create new pages, use the About Us contribution in the downloads area.

To display your products in different ways by genre, investigate "Linked Products." See p 219 in the manual.

Thanks for the reply. But what manual are you talking about?

scroll up to the top of this page and look on the right hand side.

Do you mean the book? I don't have that yet.

Good idea then to order it asap! :D

I will be ordering it (printed version, don't like the electronic one) but i don't know how long it will take to get to me and i need this problem sorted

The topics you raise in this post are covered in the forum, the wiki and the tutorials, so browse these areas while you wait 3 or 4 days for the book.

Start with ez-pages. They're quite ez to learn.

Well, i have checked those. I know about the new pages now but the main thing im trying to accomplish is the same as on this thread

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=88470&highlight=genre

Probably what you want is more like this:

https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=325

I would agree with SWGUY here. Using the "linked" product feature enables you to showcase a product across several categories, yet have it "editable" in its "master category".

This allows you to ensure that the "linked" copies assume the content of the "master" copy, the former changing in tandem with any changes made later to the "master" copy".

We have a lot of success with this on one of our food sites, where grocery-type products can be featured in various places within the store. Spices, for example, that can be used in the preparation of dishes such as soups, casseroles, roasts, etc, can feature along-side ingredients specific to these other "genres".

The beauty of a linked product system is that only the master product (the one resident in the "master category" - which you nominate) is edited, and as pointed out, any changes made to the master product are rendered across all linked instances.

If you are selling dvd movies, for example, you could have a genre "category" called "Action Movies", and then, through appropriate linking, feature these in other categories such as "War Movies", "Spy Thrillers" and "Westerns" - and then perhaps go even further by linking to date-specific criteria, "1970's Movies", "1980's movies" etc...

You could even go further... Your "007 Movies" can be a category in its own right, and all the contents appropriately linked across the categories suggested in the paragraph above...

Another option would be to tag them using Search Helper from the downloads, and then build some search strings and put them in a sidebox. Be sure to remove the zenid from any search strings you build, of course.

Thanks for all the reply but is it possible to link the sub-category to the master category?

For example, Action Category (Master Category) and then I want to link 007 Movies (Sub-category) so that I do not have to link each product as all of them are already in the 007 category.

Is this possible? Or is there an available mod?

Thx