I would like to be able to compare the specifications of two (or more) similar products e.g. Drill A from brand D with Drill B from Brand C (regardless of price or merchant)
If I created my own feed containing all the items from every brand I want to be able to compare then formatted the description field in a format I can control. Can I display this in a table so that users can compare the description contents side by side.
I understand if this may be outside the scope of the TP product.
Thanks
Steve
Just a thought - the feature items page could be ideal for this - If I placed a check box against each item - could you identify some code that would store the items that have been ticked and then load these into the featured items variable so that the featured items page then displays the selected items for comparison?
Hi David
I would like to use the featured products variable to manage the comparisons.
I would like place a link on each listed item (called 'compare')
When a user clicks on the link it adds the current 'product name' to the featured products variable (I assume this is .widget_safe($names)?)then displays the featured products page and hey presto the product will appear on that page.
I would also like to limit this to 6 products and provide a link to clear the variable.
Is this possible?
If so how do I configure the 'compare' link to append the current 'product name' to the featured products variable - which would be a good starting point.
Hi Steve,
The problem with using the featured products table is that you may have more than one user on a site at any one time; so their selected products would conflict. It's probably best done using a cookie variable so that users can select any 6 products to compare, and then a dedicated "comparison.php" page that I can help you create that will extract the standard format of the parameters from your description pages.
Could you perhaps email me a link to your site so that I can have a look at some of the description fields and then take it from there...
Cheers,
David.
Hello Steve,
Did you mean the "Related Products" in terms of what you want to compare against the product being viewed? Several users (particularly those running niche sites) customize the related product selection SQL to improve the results where more specific "queues" are available. If this is the case, it could be the first step towards doing this...
Cheers,
David.