Hi there,

First of all - superb module whichinstalled and works perfectly - many thanks!

I was kind of hoping that withthe radio button option selected, customers would be able to make multiple selections from the Product attributes on display.

As standard, customers can click the radio button to select one product attribute option. I'm setting up a site whereby the customer will choose several colour combinations for one main product.

Is there any way to modify the script to allow multiple selection or have I missed something obvious in the user manual?

thanks in advance!

Hi - in addition to the above query..

Eventhough I have set up radio buttons, the drop down box is still appearing too.
Do I need to edit the product-info file to remove it?

Thanks

Hi

Thanks for your kind words about our product.

To address the two points above:

1) A set of radio buttons by default only allows one to be selected at a time. For your situation, possible workarounds could be:

- One set of pictures showing every colour combination possible, with matching attribute values (e.g. 'red and white', 'red and yellow' etc.).

- Another way would be to use multiple colour-related attributes for the single product. If you set up one attribute name as e.g. 'Main Color' and give it values (with pics) of 'red' 'white', 'yellow' etc, then set up another attribute name such as 'Secondary Colur' and give it similar values (with pics), the system would display two sets of attribute pics and therefore two sets of radio buttons so the user could select a combination of any two colours available. Does that make sense?

2) If the dropdown boxes are appearing even though you have 'Ignore product attributes' set to 'No' and 'Allow attribute selection' set to 'Yes' in the PAPs admin panel, then the issue does indeed lie with the placement of the PAPs code in product_info.php. You can review the install instructions again for this procedure, or if you post your product_info.php file here, I'll take a look at it and advise you further.

Hope this helps.

Nick

Hi there, and thanks for the quick reply.

Bit of a shame about the radio button issue.

I actually did set up the system you detailed, with Colour 1 option and a list of the colours , followed by Colour 2 option and then Colour 3 option.

With drop down menu this works fine as a solution, but the client specifically wants radio buttons..!

The difficulty is they have 27 colour options for one product, and also want customers to have the option of selecting up to 10 different colour options per product.

That would mean having 27 preview picures 10 times over!

The client imagines a system whereby the customer can select say 8 of the radio buttons, and these 8 colour options will be added to the main product.

I suppose I will just have to persuade them that they cant have radio buttons!


As for the drop downmenu appearing even when 'Ignore Product attributes' is set to no...

I do have a fairly heavily modified producy_info.php page:

shall I copy and pate the code or do I attach it as a file, (when I paste the code it adds smilies in the preview of this message!)

Hi

It sounds like a set of checkboxes are what you would want if any number of options can be selected.

I suppose it may be possible with radio buttons if you made each button a 'group' unto itself, so to speak, but to parse a dynamically created set of these buttons would require a fair bit of coding, and it probably wouldn't be very pretty (the code, not the buttons).

With regards to the product_info.php file, add a .txt suffix after the .php and attach it to your post. Or email it as an attachment. I may not be able to look at it tonight, but tomorrow should be okay.

Nick

Hi Admin,

Thanks for the help and advice.

Dont make this a priority. Whenever you get the chance.

I'm away for a short holiday from tomorrow so I wont be demanding an answer in minutes!

Like I said - its an excellent module and I'm delighted with the effect as it is already. I upgraded from the free version because I was so impressed and I'd encourage anyone else who uses it to do the same. The full version is about the easiest install to oscommerce I've come across and the added functions well worth paying a modest fee.

Hi Graham

The paps code seems to be in the right place in product_info.php. Assuming you have set 'Allow attribute selection' to 'Yes' for this attribute in the paps admin panel and you still get this problem, I'd have to take a closer look at your code.

A couple of questions: What is the character encoding on your database? Have you changed it since you initially set it up? PAPs doesn't currently support UTF-8, for example. I'd have to look into a workaround if this is the case.

Otherwise I'd need FTP access to your site and the URL of the product page you're working on. You can send the details to me in an email if you like.

Cheers

Nick