I thought megg or Phoenix or someone was working on this before the crash... we'll have to search around to see if we can find it in the Google cache. A quick search only turned up a few requests for that functionality and a little bit of discussion about it. No results or who it was workin' on it.

I really dig the way the Texas Exes have done their frame previews. That's pretty incredible!

I believe the way to approach issues of this kind is to look into adding some functionality to the attribute system. I would like the ability to push the configuration to an ahah handler, which would reply with some of the key items(price, image change, or additional options based on the the option chosen).

As far as how we should do this, there was some discussion before 'the crash' about performing image changes and the product attributes schema as a whole.

I am interested in taking a look at this, but I have 3-4 other items on my list first.

I really need this behavior in my shop... and must admit I'm to confused over the drupal/übercart structure (hooks - scripts - templates). I would love to understand and make a solution the drupal-way with either a new (extension-)module or perhaps a new attributes module... But I'll proberbly end up with some kind of hack.

On one of my other sites (with a simple handmade cms) I implemented a feature pretty much doing just that... very simple with the help of prototype... How come this is so difficult to obtain in drupal/übercart?

After all it's just a javascript-thing updating a div-field/value based on a html-select option.

Is it just me... goofing to much around in the code confusing myself? or is this simple thing really so complicated in drupal/übercart?

Please help.

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@ mikejoconnor

Thanks a lot for your links.

Those 3-4 items are they big?

In other words... when do you think you'll have time to look at this?

As mentioned above, I really need this feature/behavior - and think it's relatively simple...

So any help you can give makes me very happy. Thanks.

Why not just made it with jquery ?

you create a .js file in which you get the attribute price when you select an attribute in the dropdown menu.

in a file like node-product.tpl.php, you just put an drupal_add_js('my_js_file.js');

If, one day, the functionnality is in ubercart core, you can just remove the attached .js file you made.

I wrote a module that I believe will do what you were looking for here. There are some restrictions on how it works and also it is a first pass, but give it a try if you'd like and give me some feedback.

http://www.ubercart.org/contrib/2010

Thanks for taking a look at it and thank you for the quick feedback. I'll make those adjustments you suggested.

As far as excessive AJAX requests, it is doing them onChange of any attributes that exist...so I guess if you are looking at a page with a bunch of products each having a bunch of attributes it is going to make a separate AJAX call for every attribute during the initial page load. I might be able to alter it so that on initial load it only makes one call per product or so that an adjusted price is calculated right off the bat without AJAX calls.

I'll need to set up a larger sample cart to get a feel for what is practical.

Ahh....that was silly. I had it adding another $(this).change(function) each time it looped back through to do the evaluation. I took the assignment of the change functions out to an initialize function to fix it. I'll upload all the updates a little later. Thanks again for the troubleshooting.

Just what I needed. You guys are awsome!