Product filter block

[junkyard]

hi,
first off, this cart rocks! lots of features and still user-friendly.
Wondering is there any chance for implementing a product filter block:
  opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=3621
  opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=973
each step narrows down selection directing customers to the right product, e.g. see the make/model/year filter at demo.sophio.com
Such block (or maybe extension) could be a great news for many of us having to deal with lots of subcategories.
thank you!

[Basara]

hi,
first off, this cart rocks! lots of features and still user-friendly.
Wondering is there any chance for implementing a product filter block:
  opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=3621
  opencart.com/index.php?route=extension/extension/info&extension_id=973
each step narrows down selection directing customers to the right product, e.g. see the make/model/year filter at demo.sophio.com
Such block (or maybe extension) could be a great news for many of us having to deal with lots of subcategories.
thank you!

Hello. Similar extension available at marketplace  "Product Features or Attributes" http://marketplace.algozone.com/product-features.html
Go to admin-extensions-Extension Store

[junkyard]

thanks for the swift reply.  We had the 'product features' extension purchased and installed, and found it only allows you to create and attach attributes to some specific products (manually), then shows a link(s) to these attributes related products over your home page   About the same could be achieved putting related products in category and clicking on it in menu, or using built-in 'featured' block --  unless you need to hand-pick several groups of random products out of your whole stockpile in order to advertise all of these diverse groups via these hyperlinks on a storefront page (that's where this extension might help).  however be warned that it likely won't work with the cool HTML5 template, only the orange default (at least, that is what happened to us).

anyway, sorry that it wasn't clear from the description how this is different from our problem:
imagine you have 15 categories (Make), each having 20 sub-categories (Model), that in turn have 10 sub-sub-categories for the actual types of products.
Overall, you have to deal with 15 x 20 x 10 = 3000 sub-categories not easily manageable via Menu or Search..

that's where you desperately need a new block or extension to browse these categories via 3 (or more) dropdown menus: choose the 1st category, let its sub-categories to load dynamically into the next dropdown; go on till you reach the bottom sub-category.  There are some great details with 2 opencart extensions referred above, and it can be seen in action at demo.sophio.com 
This kind of 'dynamic subcategories selector' is really the only reasonable way to show correct product content the first time if you have more or less many products/subcategories.  All it does, it selects child sub-categories on the fly at each step from 1 DB table (ab_categories?).

[abantecart]

This sounds reasonable. Let me review and I will see what we can do to address this improvement.

[calbashmc]

I'd like to +1 this idea.
I sell food products and would iike to have the main category (say grains) then allow the customer to filter the list such as Gluten Free, organic, etc.

[eCommerce Core]

I think refined or advanced search would do what you need:
http://marketplace.abantecart.com/customer-experience?product_id=173

[junkyard]

Thanks for the idea but the existing extension is more about filtering search results, it works and looks differently from what was proposed here.
The block in this thread would work like a "dynamic subcategories selector" the opencart  and sophio already have (please see links above).

[otterslide]

+1 .