Looking to add a Plant Search as shown in the following ecommerce site:
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Since we are modifying our admin for entering product information already, this is probably best accomplished with a separate table. The customer experience will be essentially the same as shown on the example site and the parameters will be almost identical; just tailored slightly to our specific product line.
1 Customer surfs to appropriate page.
2 Customer selects parameters and submits completed form.
3 Zen cart displays results as in Product Listing page.
Admin interface should NOT be built into existing product page, as explained above. Interface can be very simple. I will even consider an interface that simply downloads and uploads a CSV. Also, as noted above, this should be a separate table from products to keep from messing with several other modifications under way.
So, essentially you have just a form on the customer side and a form on the admin side feeding and pulling from a single table.
Some details:
Zen Cart 1.3.8a
Mysql 4
PHP 4
You may not have cPanel or FTP access to my server. (Sorry, gotta be that way)
I have plenty of experience adding and modifying to this site in the files and the database. Just send files and instructions and we'll surely work it out.