Howdy,
I have read all I could find on the subject on the forums and i perticularly appreciated
http://ee.com/articles/a-primer-on-relationships-with-expressionengine/
and Mike Boyink’s tutorial
But as he said this approach might not be good going beyond two levels. I would like to impalement a multifacited search/nav on a site I am working on that would have functionality similar to.
www. houseplans.com
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=14&name=Internal-Hard-Drives
http://photography.shop.ebay.com/Digital-Cameras-/31388/i.html?_trksid=p3910.c0.m485
is EE the best tool to provide this functionality? I even thought about using Brilliant retail they almost have this kind of functionality but not quite, but it has lots of stuff that i do not need as well. The ideal solution would be to have a finite number of atributes common to all products, and a finite number of selections with in each atribute.
For example
color : Red Green Blue,
Shape: round, cube, flat.
Price: 10, 20, 30
Then any segmentation during the browsing process would narrow the results down to the most releant items. I believe that this will provide a good experiance becasue I often am not sure what I want by brand or part number but I know i want a Green cube under 20 bucks. And this would take me right to it, part number 12345. where as searching for “green cube under 20 bucks” might return nothing or a bunch of stuff I dont care about.
I have not been able to find anything with any CMS that provides this or any simmilar functionality out of the box. What are your thoughts? Thanks in advance.
Rob