[Job Offer] Filtering Combinations

[nzrobert]

I am in the process of building a website which required filtering of Make, Model and Year.

In some cases I have products which are compatible for a certain Year of a certain model.

 

i.e "YXY Brake pads" fit a "Honda CRX250 (1999 - 2002)", a "Honda XYK500 (2003 - 2004)", a "Honda ZXR550 (2011 - 2012)"

 

The Navigation would be as follows:

1. Select the category (i.e Brakes)
   
2. Product filtering is displayed (because it is now in category view)
   
3. Select the Make (list of products is reduced)
   
4. Select Model (List of products is reduced)
   
5. Select Year (List of products is reduced)
   

 

I would like this product to be available for any of the above combinations of bike. This is difficult I believe because the product is available for the years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2011 and 2012. However not always available for those years if you select a different model. I can only imagine that you would need to somehow combine a feature with another feature to create a combination of year, make and model? so that it can be filterable.

 

This product I am talking about actually has about 100 different combination of Make, model and year that it would be compatible for. But not all years are available for every make and model, so there needs to be some sort of combination feature available to create these. I may be wrong or "barking up the wrong tree" however im assuming that this would work in the same way as attributes whereby you create combinations (which are then also filterable). There would only be a single stock count for this product so attributes is not an option. Also I don't want to have attribute selection drop downs on the product page, The product just needs to be returned as a valid product under the search for Make, Model an Year.

 

This module should be independent of the Prestashop Multilevel Navigation as we may want to include a price filter, colour filter etc etc.

This module should also be independent of the attribute system as we will need to use that for varying types of a product.

 

The module should be scalable with future releases of the Prestashop software, should we want to upgrade the website.

 

The example above is only of a few different scenarios, they include:

 

Single part fits different models of same make of bike.

 

[part / product] fits [make] - [model] - [year]

 

i.e.

 

SPR305-368 fits KTM- 125 SX/EXC - (04-12)

SPR305-368 fits KTM - 144 SX - (07-12)

SPR305-368 fits KTM - 200 SX - (04-12)

SPR305-368 fits KTM - 250 SXF - (05-12)

etc

etc

 

 

Single part fits more than one brand of bike.

 

i.e.

 

FWB100 fits Suzuki - DRZ400E - (00-07)

FWB100 fits Kawasaki - KX 125 - 93-11

FWB100 fits Kawasaki - KLX400 - (03-08)

FWB100 fits Suzuki - DRZ400SM - (05-09)

etc

etc

 

Please feel free to ask me any questions about this.

Edited August 2, 2012 by nzrobert (see edit history)

[nzrobert]

No one is interested? :-S