Add Multi Products advice

[pgmarshall]

Has anyone installed a decent mod that would allow the addition of multiple products?

I have looked through the oscommerce contributions - master products looks way to complex to install safely; others add products at the product_listing level ... not product_info level

What I am looking to do is to be able to add a product which is in effect a package of other products.

Eg. Blue Aspen Table Set

contains - tablecloth, 6 placemats, 6 napkins, 6 napkin rings, 1 breadbasket.

I am trying to add the physical products to the basket so the end user can remove the actual underlying products if they do not want all of them - this should also avoid any conflicts with QTPro.

This code looks very simple but effective ... but I didn't want to have to hard code the links and wanted the end client administrator to be able to link products together ... Bundled products looks the closest but again looks a bit overly complicated.

Has anyone seen a mod that would do this and have installed in oscmax?

Thanks,

[blackhawk]

any luck with this project pgmarshall?

[pgmarshall]

Blackhawk,

The code for the simple solution is remarkably short ...

<?
  require('includes/application_top.php');

//  echo $products;
  $ids = explode(",", $products);

  if (is_array($ids)) {

  foreach ($ids as $id){
        $cart->add_cart($id, $cart->get_quantity((int)$id)+1);
  }

  }
  tep_redirect(tep_href_link('shopping_cart.php'));  
?>

Although, a couple of thoughts ...

1) It would be better to allow - product_id, quantity, product_id2, quantity2, etc. - but that should be a simple code change ...
2) The redirect back to shopping_cart.php needs to adopt the switch as per the admin set up - should be simpe ...
3) I was also thinking about how to create a product in the database with this link structure through admin ... this is what I am stuck on ...

If you were willing to hard code the links then you only need steps 1 and 2 which are pretty easy ... not done them yet as I would ideally like to complete step 3 if possible.

Regards,