Hello PriceTapastry-Team,
first: great work, this is a really nice working piece of PHP!
Ok I want to compare a lot of mobile phones - every merchant has a phone several times but with other contracts. For example:
Nokia 6700 chrome + o2 Flatrate
Nokia 6700 chrome + o2 o Flatrate
Nokia 6700 chrome + o2 Weekend Flatrate
... and so on. The prices are different in the most cases.
Now I want the following things in the compare-table: List the mobile phones from every merchant, with the different contracts. The visitor has to choose a contract... I try it with product-mapping but this hide the different contracts...
I hope you can help me ;-)
Thank you and best regards Alex
Hi Alex,
You probably want to start off with the modification described recently in this thread which will enable multiple products for the same merchant to be imported.
Next, if you haven't done so already; the additional fields relevant to your niche, and that exist in the majority of feeds that you will be using can be added as per the instructions on the following page:
http://www.pricetapestry.com/node/3094
The only other thing you might want to do is consider how generic, or network or otherwise focussed you wish your product names to be. In general, mobile phone feeds tend to have handset names as the product name, but what you might want to do, for example, is incorporate the network name along with the handset name, e.g. "Nokia 6110 Vodafone". Let's say "Vodafone" was in a field that is called "NETWORK" in your feed, you could append that to the product name by adding a Text After filter (click Filters alongside the relevant feed from the /admin/ home page) to the Product Name field and then in the text box on the filter configuration page, you would enter:
%NETWORK%Note the SPACE at the beginning - that's important as the output of the filter will be appended directly on to the product name, so there needs to be a space in this scenario. Don't forget that filters are applied at import time, so you would need to re-import any affected feeds for the changes to take effect...
Cheers,
David.
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