Product Attributs Help

[b2bcons]

Hey i hope one of you can help with this problem.
The problem we have is that adding attriubutes to every individual product is a time consuming exercise.
For example

Product 1
Colour Attribute = Red, Blue, Yellow, Green

Product 2
Colour Attribute = Red, Blue, Yellow, Green

Currently this means setting the individual attributes to each individual product this is a taxing task with a lot of products and surely there is an easier way to replicate the attribute group over to similiar products?

The other problem is one that we may be able to solve but would like to know if anyone else has a similiar issue.

We have a clothes shop and the garments can have a variety of motifs, however there is no way to show the customer what these motifs look like without making an individual product for each motif type.
So is there some way of making a box that shows a picture as a rollover when you select so and so motif?

The only other way i can see around it is to create an external page that we link to displaying the motifs and the codes for each design.

Thanks for reading and hope one of you guys or girls can help

[red_fraggle]

Sounds like you need the attributes copier module installed, it can be obtained here, http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,772

As far as the motif rollovers, this has been asked of us many times from many different website owners. We have done it using javascript and flash on a few websites. We could send you links to those sites if you like to see how its done.

[b2bcons]

Links would be good.

We are currently having a major problem. Our server admin has turned global permissions off. This has meant we have had to use a patch to get it to work without the global permissions enabled.
This has worked, to an extent. However the iadmin panel will not pick up the modules and also will not pick up the images sub directory.

Im by no means a php expert and this is driving us nuts.

Anyone have any ideas

[red_fraggle]

register_globals does not have to be on for the entire server to make your store work. Register_globals can be instantiated using an .htaccess file in your root folder so that register_globals applies to all directories under your home directory. Which is really what OSC cares about anyway.

So add this to your .htaccess file in your root webfolder

php_flag register_globals on

ill get some links together and send em in a bit, im super busy at moment.

[b2bcons]

I just tried that with a test shop. As we sorted out the problem using a patch where we had to change code in lots of php files.
It worked, but if your way cuts out all that stuff, would be good to know how to get it to work.

[red_fraggle]

of course you could always check out the Hyperattributes module we just finished writing and let us know if it helps you out any, might be just what your looking for. you can test the store using it out all ya want, just let us know if ya find any bugs at appdev@hyperactivehosting.com.

store login info for testing can be found in this post http://www.oscdox.com/PNphpBB2-viewtopic-t-4436.html

[b2bcons]

Ive been trying to look into getting that first contribution you linked me to, installed.
Im finding it difficult though.

I looked at your hyperattributes module, but it isnt an online editor it takes the information from a spreasheet as far as i could see.
Any advice on installing the previous module, as yours is only beta anyway.

[red_fraggle]

ours is fully functional. It uses Excel just like easypopulate does. works almost exactly the same actually and lets you download a excel sheet, edit it and re-uplaod it mass changing, deleting or editing all attributes on a product by product basis in your store. pretty nifty. Anyway, if you need assistance installing the contribution, post any errors your getting here and ill try to help.