FancyBox Product Details from Category page

I would like to show product details in a fancybox modal window when a product is clicked from the category page.

Ive got this working using an iframe fancybox linked to the product template, but would prefer not to use the actual product page and iframes.

I am attempting to reference the product details as inline content in the category template, but I dont know how to pass specific product information into the fancybox div.

For example, say my category is T Shirts and I have three products. Blue Shirt, Red Shirt and White Shirt. When you click the Blue Shirt image from the T Shirts category page, a fancybox opens with the Blue Shirt popup images, price, description, related products and add to cart button, etc.

In the product template you can just use <?php echo $price; ?> and whatnot. How can I grab that specific product information in the category template? Do I need to define it somehow in the category controller?

Im no php expert, so just doing the best I can to hack together the features Im hoping to implement : ) Thanks for your help!

Is there a way I can describe this better? I am really hoping to implement this method. Thank you! Please help!

Ok, so I have most of it working. I used the same array that currently displays product information on the category page as defined in the product/category.php file. Now all I need to do is figure out how to display larger product images on the category page. I would like to display the images defined as $image[popup] on the product.tpl

Has anyone done this on the category page?

Thanks!

I too was looking into this. I'd like to get rid of most of the landing pages that are unnecessary on my site

Product page, cart page, checkout process. Instead of going to the product page when clicked, it will popup the product detail page in the overlay window and can be interacted with. When added to cart, it would autoclose itself, allowing me to continue shopping.

I'd like to have that all in an overlay box leaving the category page in the background.

I am actually trying to do it with jqtools instead of fancybox. So it will be interesting what we can both turn out

Nice to know someone else is working on this Qphoria! Have you been able to display the product images in the overlay or just the category thumb? Im trying to get the 'popup' size product images to show up in the overlay. Thanks!