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By mikedance on
Hello!
I am making great strides in setting up a functional ecommerce store. I am looking for the best way to setup product categories.
Here is an example of the product category/product structure:
- Electronics (category)
-- PDA 1 (product)
-- Computers (category)
--- Desktops and Towers (category)
---- Tower 1 (product)
--- Laptops (category)
---- Laptop 1 (product)
-- Phone Systems (category)
--- Phone System 1 (product)
-- Phones (category)
--- Phone 1 (product)
- Books (category)
I would like to have the root categories show up in the top menu (Electronics, Books), a product category tree menu as a side menu.
I would like to associate a thumbnail picture, and maybe product count for each category.
When each category is clicked, A "product preview" page would be displayed listing the categories, and then any products.
For example if Electronics was clicked, Computers, Phone Systems, Phones would be displayed in the Sub Categories section, along with the PDA 1 product in a Products section. These would be displayed in a teaser mode, where they could be clicked to view more detailed product information.
What of this is possible, and what is the best way of going about achieving this?
Comments
Taxonomy.module itself is
Taxonomy.module itself is not enough
I'd suggest you also use the following modules:
Taxonomy_Context
Taxonomy_Browser
SiteMenu
These are all simple to install and extend taonomy. Well, Drupal taxzonomy also has FREE TAGGING and Multiple Tagging and Related Terms
MIght also want to have
VIEWS
Exactly what I'm doing now.
I've explored lots of modules, wanting nested categories, images for categories and automatic menus.
The category module is the best. It does two of the three, while images for categories is easily done through changing the theme, as in category.module, every category is a node - so attach image, and theme it. Sweet and nice.
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Cheers,
Thong
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Same here
I'm trying to acomplish the same thing here, but not sure how to show the products as a list.
I created a category like computers, and add terms for desktops, laptops, and then create a view to show this as a block and applied some filters on it.
Is the best way to change something on the theme to show the products as listings?
Saludos,
Juan
not sure
not sure what are you trying to ask, juan. are you asking if creating views is the best way to show all terms? It's a reasonable approach.
What do you mean by "products" here? are you using ecommerce module?
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Cheers,
Thong
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Yes, i'm using ecommerce module
Hi Thong,
Well, I had several products for a client that want to sell medicines online, I have two main categories like "prescription" and "generic", but then on each category I will have several subcategories, like "pain relief", "diuretics", "etc" and this list is different from generic or prescription.
When I create a new product, I can assign the category and subcategory, but my concern was with what is the best way to show the product in the page, I mean, when I click on generic, show all the subcategories from that list and when I click on the subcategory show all the products associated with them.
I was trying to acomplish this but when I click the subcategory, show all the products like a list.
DIURETICS
*Product Name *Product Description *Price *Weight
medicine 1 Description of medicine 1 15 dlls 1 pnd Add to cart
medicine 2 Description of medicine 2 16 dlls 1 pnd Add to cart
I think is something simple but can't figured out at the moment.
Yesterday I found the taxonomy directory http://drupal.org/node/92908 , and I will try to use it and see the results.
Saludos,
Juan