Customization Mod

[MasterDev]

I've been working with PrestaShop for about two weeks now and love it... But I've been tinkering around lately with the customization trying to change it from text boxes to Drop Downs...

Now the only mod I did to attempt this was in a ThickBox inline content box... in which the actual content was hidden until you clicked the button to make it appear. Now I have the customization box in a hidden div tag and some of it's functions added to the inline content thick box... But it's not working right...

So my question is... what info do I need to throw in to make the customization drop downs?

Or do i even make sense here?

[Radu]

I was thinking of this possibility just to skip over the attribute system, which is the most complete so far but if you don't need qty tracking per attribute very annoying/slow etc

did you manage to solve the problem? I was thinking adding options/values similar with attributes system but in a simple textarea like that:
option1: value1 value 2 value3
option2: value4 value5 value6

store everything in the database - it maybe a single field, then parse it in product page and display it as selection boxes
now I must a not here: when storing this into the database you can also create for this example 2 customization input boxes to keep the compatibility with the original system and keep development effort low.

Now in product page just show the selection boxes - javascript onChange will change the value of the correspondent input box (hidden field - maybe a switch 0/1 ) and you'll be finished.

Presta will think the hidden boxes are just other customization input fileds - there is the issue how to save the data using ajax when adding product to cart, but this shouldn't be too hard

[MasterDev]

Yeah, I solved all of my problems by switching to Magento.

[Radu]

what's your shop? Are you happy with the speed of magento?

for presta I am having customers with thousands of products and thousands of customers - magento is just too slow even on a dedicated server unless you are willing to throw hundreds of dollars on hosting.