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Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:18 pm
by trof83
I need a module for my site that is similar to a Country/State/City drop down select menu, but I need it for the categories, since my site consists of multiple categories and the last box will bring up the list of products, anyone interested? Would appreciate a quote

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:58 am
by Johnathan
I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean a side module? One that displays the categories in a drop-down instead of a list of links? And then displays another dynamically-filled drop-down with the products in that category?

Also, you say triple drop-down -- what is the third drop-down? Do you have two different category set-ups?

Let me know those answers and I'll PM you an estimate.

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:40 am
by Qphoria
I assume he wants a dependent dropdown where the previous one changes the values of the next one. I guess then it will only have 2 level categories?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:02 am
by trof83
Qphoria has a better explanation than me, basically it would looking something like this in the image below. Would be nice if it could actually have another level deeper "if" the next category exists.

Image

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 3:01 am
by trof83
no one interested?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 10:56 am
by Qphoria
There are some missing details I suppose. I assume you want this to work with store products?
So you are never going to have more than 2 categories deep and then the products will follow that?

Like

1st choice: Desktops
2nd choice -- Dell
3rd choices:
-- Inspiron
-- Dimension
-- XPS

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:07 pm
by trof83
Pretty much how you have it Qphoria but the last selection never actually brings up a "selection box" with a populated list of products, it just navigates to the products that are in that category. After the last category is selected, it will take you to the products that exist in that category(pagination). So for example the very last category that was selected in the tree would contain this url path..."index.php?route=product/category&path=1_10_100"

I'm terrible at explaining things, so Ive attached an image, I don't think its extremely hard, but my knowledge with AJAX is very limited and think that's more or less what it will require. Its just 3 levels deep by the way like shown in the image.

Would appreciate it,
thanks

Image

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:55 pm
by trof83
Could really use some help with this one, anybody?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:57 pm
by Qphoria
Yea I can help you with this. I'll PM you a quote later today

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:58 am
by trof83
sounds good, thanks Qphoria

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 7:25 am
by trof83
Hey Qphoria just checking to see if you had a estimate drawn up

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:14 pm
by Qphoria
Yes, I started on the plan of attack, Just want to make sure its going to work.
I assume you will never have more than 3 levels of categories? And you will never have any items within the first 2 levels of categories? only the third level?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:49 pm
by trof83
That's correct, you should be able to just edit the category module right?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 1:11 pm
by Qphoria
hmm maybe... perhaps I am overthinking it

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 6:01 pm
by JAY6390
even unlimited categories and products in the category aren't that hard to work around tbh. bit of recursion and a check for products in a category and job done, pass that data back to the client side via JSON and update the GUI to reflect that data

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2010 2:06 pm
by trof83
Any luck Q?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:06 pm
by trof83
Were you still planning to work on this Qphoria?

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:45 pm
by Johnathan
If Q's not interested in doing it, I can do it in a few days, probably.

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:07 pm
by Qphoria
I actually have it started.. but am having a hard time with making the page reload with the correct selected drop downs. Instead I made it use an ajax load to do it, but it isn't really the best way to do it since the url doesn't match
You can see what I have here:
http://unbannable.com/v149 (left side.. desktop/pc/etc)

I made it completely dynamic so that is loads a new dropdown only if there is a subcategory, which makes it a little more usable for everyone, but it was friday last week when I was trying this and my brain was in weekend mode so I haven't looked at it since then

Re: Triple Drop Down menu

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 10:34 pm
by trof83
Would it be possible to just get a version that's not dynamic?