By Seneschall on

Is there a module that would allow for comparison of products? An example of what I'm looking to do is here: http://www.oneshift.com/pdb/ccd.php

On that site, different makes & models of cars can be compared. This however is for Singapore. I'm looking to do something similar for China & maybe Asia in the future. Any modules that can do this? Search didn't come up with a lot that looks vaguely close.

If no module, any other way to do it?

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deepakpat commented

Pls help..

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pkej commented

This has been asked before and this thread has links to other discussions of the issue: http://drupal.org/node/584932

In short this seems to be a missing feature. There is a module called "smackdown" but it compares only two nodes against each other, not many.

The step missing is to provide a list of products to send on to be compared. Views and cck can be used to create the different lists/views to do the comparision, but there is, afaik, no way to first make a list in views, then give the option to select lines (products to compate) from that list and supply the selected products to a new view in order to render a comparison. It might also be that the comparison rendering might need some special voodoo, but it isn't that hard.

But, if you know how to use theming you could theme the output of views to create the checkboxes and give the theme a submit-button which sends the data to the new view. I don't think it should be too much of a problem to make that work.

Anyway, it all depends on some work and customization, but not terribly difficult.

Paul K Egell-Johnsen

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summit commented

Subscribing, needing the same!
Greetings, Martijn