Showing options on a drop down menu

RickDavisFL · #1 01-21-2008, 05:58 AM

Is there a way for the customer to see options from a drop down menu?

For example, say I am selling a product that comes in 3 shapes. When they look at the product details they can choose "Circle", "Square" or "Triangle" from a drop down menu. However, what I want is for them to see this shape either as they hover their mouse over the choices or after they make the selection. If neither of these are possible, could it appear somewhere on the final checkout page?

I have two product lines that each offer 32 options in this way and I want the customer to be able to see their choice before the exchange of billing information.

Thanks in advance for any help or idea.

DezineJunkie · #2 01-21-2008, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by RickDavisFL

Is there a way for the customer to see options from a drop down menu?

For example, say I am selling a product that comes in 3 shapes. When they look at the product details they can choose "Circle", "Square" or "Triangle" from a drop down menu. However, what I want is for them to see this shape either as they hover their mouse over the choices or after they make the selection. If neither of these are possible, could it appear somewhere on the final checkout page?

I have two product lines that each offer 32 options in this way and I want the customer to be able to see their choice before the exchange of billing information.

Thanks in advance for any help or idea.

Rick check out this site, he has Nav menus such as Drop and slide out-

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Originally Posted by PhilJ

We have several navigational mods, which you may be interested in...
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balinor · #3 01-21-2008, 10:03 AM

I don't think he is asking for navigation menus, he's looking for an image associated with each 'option' for a product, correct? If so, you can add variant-specific images, but the product needs to have variants, not options.

RickDavisFL · #4 01-21-2008, 11:21 AM

You are correct balinor.

What I would like is to have an image pop-up as the customer moves their mouse over a number of options once they click on a drop down menu.

I was easily able to make the drop down, both altering and not altering, the core price of the item. But that's as far as I can go.

Is there a specific section of the X-Cart manual you could point me to? Or even some other post or site with this information?

Thanks for keeping my hope alive here.

balinor · #5 01-21-2008, 11:45 AM

Have a look at the variant setup...it explains how to add images per variant. Getting them to display when you mouseover is a whole other can of worms though...

RickDavisFL · #6 01-21-2008, 12:05 PM

Thanks again for your help balinor. I'm going to try to squeeze a little more from you though.

I see how the variants work and it solves some of my needs but not all of them. Let me give you another example...

Say the product in question is a box. I have the same options in the drop down menu (square, triangle and circle) and in this case these shapes are printed on the top of the box somehow. I want the customer to see the original product with no "options" but as they choose them in one way or another I want them to see their choice before the purchase.

Some of these items I have 30 or more options in that drop down and it would not be reasonable for me to take that many photos or to store them on the site since even a 100-product catalog multiplied by 30 options would easily become a burden just from the photos. However, just having a single photo of each item and a master set of the "options" would be very reasonable.

I know this is getting into a more complex area of X-Cart and probally other aspects of programming but any additional help you can offer would be appreciated.

Thanks!

inebriate · #7 01-21-2008, 03:19 PM

you could layer your "master option" pictures, using it like transparencies (may require GD image library to be installed on your server)

as for moving over the options and having it change without the customer clicking down on the select yet, that would be a bit difficult as you would have to use the onFocus event and use a while loop to get the positioning of the mouse...if you were to do it after the selection but before the purchase then that would be a lot easier

also, will all your products be using this method? or just a few particular ones?

i could have this coded for you at a reasonable price, if you are interested then PM me or you could go about this on your own as i have given the basic steps needed

RickDavisFL · #8 01-22-2008, 10:53 AM

I would be fine if it could display the image after the selection but before the purchase.

Another issue is where to display the image. I would not want it to replace the image of the main product but I also do not want it to cover over any of the other options.

The X-Cart store will have somewhere around 400-500 individual products and around 80% of these will need to utilize the option where the customer can see their variant choice before purchasing.

As far as having you code this for me several issues would need to be resolved before I could even think about purchasing it from you. First, I do not buy code anonymously, so I would need the full contact information for your company to check out before we discussed pricing. Next, I would need to see a sample so I know you will provide exactly what I am envisioning. Finally, since I am far from being a programmer I would need you to walk me through its installation and setup.

If you don't have a problem with any of that let me know and we can move our conversation to e-mail. Otherwise, thanks anyway for the information you offered.