Comments on: Create a Color Switcher in Magento

By: oakRunk

oakRunk — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:56:40 +0000

I second what Justin says =)

I’m currently trying to adapt a solution that will work on configurable products…even if it is only the color attribute as opposed to style.

Thanks for posting this - it gives me some hope that I may soon come up with (or simply find) a solution.

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Magento Themes Tutorial » Blog Archive » Magento Color Swatch Tutorial — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:46:15 +0000

[...] seeks to walk you through this process in 3 easy steps. This solution is loosely based on the Inchoo Posting, with some variations. The first notable change is we use the built-in prototype library to perform [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:24:58 +0000

Hi - great post/tutorial.
I’ve got this all working, but here’s what I would really love to do with this:-

1. User selects “Style” drop-down option and the image is updated to show the chosen style
2. User then selects “Color” (just like in this tutorial) and the previous “Style” image is then updated with the chosen color (overlayed, possibly).

Really what I’m asking is for a way to get multiple drop-down selectors to interact in terms of updating the image.

Can you see this as being possible? If so, I would love to learn how to do it!

By: cooee

cooee — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:00:17 +0000

Hi there, I think I figured it out:
http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/18696/

By: Sherrie

Sherrie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:12:50 +0000

@Tomislav - Can you explain how you made the example you just showed? Am also looking to enable the color swatches to change the image.

By: Emilie

Emilie — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:53:01 +0000

nice tutorial.

it’s seems to work perfectly. but what’s about number of #select ? how can i use this function with different products ?

By: Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:26:03 +0000

Tomislav, where did you update the original post? Have you made changes in the screencast?

By: cooee

cooee — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:55:34 +0000

I just noticed that in the screencast you just skipped the part when you wanted to explain how to get the internal attribute number of the select … what a shame Any chance you could post this somewhere?

By: Tomislav Bilic

Tomislav Bilic — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:25:44 +0000

I updated the original post a little. You can now see color switcher in action on Kapitol Reef Snorkel page.

By: cooee

cooee — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:04:49 +0000

Hi there, I like your approach to the problem, however, hardcoding the name of the into the bit of Javascript into head.phtml does not seem to be a good solution. Whenever one adds another product and applies custom options, the name will change.