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Fri, 03/06/2009 - 16:01
Kayz
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Hi i am new to ubercart and have come across a particular website which has the necessary features that i am after.

I am after the following,

* When you click on the product the image is rather larger than normal.
* I am able to define my own fields (for a book site) such as author, title, published by etc which will be displayed along side the item.

Those are the two main features i really badly require and have not found any other cart system that does anything similarly to what i am actually after.

See this ubercart website for an exact example of what i am after: http://www.shoprush.co.uk/redken/redken-smooth-down-shampoo

The website also has a list of "similar products" under the initial product image, does anybody know where i would be able to obtain this feature also? This isnt very important at this stage, but a heads up would be nice.

Thanks guys and i look forward to your replies.

Cheers

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Fri, 03/06/2009 - 18:36
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Re: Looking for these features...

1. Happens automatically when you have Thickbox installed, just follow the Ubercart installation instructions

2. http://drupal.org/project/cck

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3. http://drupal.org/project/uc_upsell

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Fri, 03/06/2009 - 19:17
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Re: Looking for these features...

Hi there,

I agree that CCK, imagecache and thickbox is the way to go for the imagery and custom content fields as recommended.

* http://drupal.org/project/cck
* http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
* http://drupal.org/project/thickbox

Regarding the similar items system, hopefully I can help as I was the developer on your reference site Smiling

We used the similar terms module (http://drupal.org/project/similarterms) with taxonomy to create the listings you are referring to. From a content management point of view the admin simply needs to select what product range the item they are adding is part of.

The similar items module was then called in the node-product.tpl.php file (see theming by content type: http://drupal.org/node/17565) using the following lines:

<?php $similar = module_invoke('similarterms', 'block', 'view', 2);?>
<?php print $similar['content'];?>

We sat this inside a div in HTML which we linked to a jquery carousel system. (http://sorgalla.com/projects/jcarousel/#Examples)

Once that was running we created a small module that used AJAX to load the title, price and a link to the product when the user clicks the image.

The end result was something that is very simple to content manage and ties in nicely with the design for good product cross-linking.

I hope this helps, and am very happy to supply code snippets to help you on your way once you get to looking at similar items for your site.

Hope you like the site BTW Smiling

Vince

www.Londondesignworks.com

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