Manufacturer Search via Custom Fields

[slabar]

What is the easiest way/code to make a category drop down [not necessarily a category] for manufacturers using custom fields?

I know I could do this manually by making a category and placing those items in that category. To me this is the hard way and time consuming. I've seen other sites with this feature but I cannot figure out how to search the custom field that I made.

Thanks in advance.

[Kent Multer]

Re: Manufacturer Search via Custom Fields

I've written some custom search modules that can search for products by custom-field values, and also by attributes such as size and color. If you don't find a better solution, you're welcome to drop me a line to discuss that.

Thanks --

[Bruce - PhosphorMedia]

Re: Manufacturer Search via Custom Fields

If you don't have a LOT of products, you could use the Product List Load All function in an MVT:DO statement, and filter for that 'custom' filled with an mvt:if custom field exists.


<mvt:do name="l.result" file="g.Module_Library_DB" value="Runtime_ProductList_Load_All( l.settings:theseProducts )" />

<mvt:foreach iterator="products" array="theseProducts">

Place conditional here

</mvt:foreach>

[titlehere]

Re: Manufacturer Search via Custom Fields

You can do this with the old Sebenza Category Template manager, so it's very possible. You can see it in use here: http://www.nordicneedle.com/ctgy/har...-patterns.html

Honestly it is the ONLY feature of that module that I can't seem to replace. Power Search allows custom fields sorting, but only on the SRCH pages, not the CTGY pages (or at least I haven't figured out how to implement it on the CTGY pages yet). If anyone has utilized either the toolkit or power search modules to accomplish this, please share!