I am trying to provide a "Match" function for a shopping comparison system. The database model will be very similar to a standard shopping cart, like OSCommerce, the PHPR Store Template, etc.
The scenario is this:
Say I am looking at an item: T-Shirt, Size-Large, Color:Red, Manufacturer: Walt Disney
I would like to provide the user a "Match" button, and a checkbox list of these attributes for comparison.
For example: What other Disney shirts are there?, what other shirts come in Large-Red?
I understand the default search form that goes on the top of the list pages, but I am picturing this as a popup from the list page, with the attributes of the current item selected.
I'd appreciate any input, especially if there is already a general purpose solution for this function.
I see at http://bit.ly/Mu4jm that there is an even more powerful feature scheduled for PHPR 5.2. It appears that the only addition needed for my scenario is a "match mode", where the selected attributes of the current item are available for selection as a checkbox list. I think that this would be a brilliant enhancement to the proposed functionality.
Is this interesting?
Thanks,
Ken