Project Detail

Description

We are creating an e-commerce website using the latest stable versions of Joomla! and Virtuemart (1.5.14 and 1.1.3, respectively).

For a demonstration of the functionality that we need, please refer to the product page found at http://www.liberator.com/products.php?id=5#

The product shown on this page comes in several colors and the two colors shown on the page (Deep Rose and Petal Pink) are actually two different products with two separate product numbers. However, our client wants to enter only one product in the Virtuemart database and only show one product page, from which the buyer can then pick the color they want and add the product to the shopping cart in the chosen color.

We need two components that are interrelated and hopefully can be written in a form that is generic enough to apply to any product in our inventory. These 2 components must be able to work inside of the Virtuemart product description page template. These 2 components are as follows:

1. The first component is the gallery component shown on the link above. This product gallery should allow us to specify a directory where the images to be shown are stored and also specify the size (and perhaps the number) of thumbnails to show. Allowing the user to scroll through the thumbnails when there are more thumbnails than fit on the given space would also be nice. Ideally, we would like to store the gallery directory information on the Virtuemart product record but this is not a must.

2. The second component would be a component that--depending on the thumbnail clicked by the user--would select the proper value for the color attribute, or any other attribute that applies to the product in question. This might be the trickiest component to create as there might be different attributes for different products that I would want to select via clicking the thumbnails on the first component above.

The above 2 components might be written in Javascript, PHP or combination thereof. If you can make credible a case for using another language or tools, I would also be open to considering it.

The users for these 2 components are not going to be full-fledged programmers but will be at least comfortable with going to the Virtuemart back end and changing the settings.

We would like to have this project completed within a week.

Thanks.