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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

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.

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?

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.

no one interested?

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

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

Could really use some help with this one, anybody?

Yea I can help you with this. I'll PM you a quote later today

sounds good, thanks Qphoria

Hey Qphoria just checking to see if you had a estimate drawn up

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?

That's correct, you should be able to just edit the category module right?

hmm maybe... perhaps I am overthinking it

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

Any luck Q?

Were you still planning to work on this Qphoria?

If Q's not interested in doing it, I can do it in a few days, probably.

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

Would it be possible to just get a version that's not dynamic?