[TYPO3-shop] Publisher like Categories

[Franz Holzinger]

Hello David,

> Could anybody say how complicated it would be to implement a publisher 
> field like the (simple) categories of tt_products? I mean the original 
> categories and not the heirarcical extension.

If you use mbi_products_categories with mm tables then you could use an 
additional category for each product which is the manufacturer.

manufacturer
  -- name1
  -- name2
  -- name3

maincategory
   -- cat1
      --cat11
   -- cat2
      --cat21

You can use more than 1 tree of hierarchical categories connected together.

So product1 can have manufacturer name2 and the categories cat11 and 
cat2, all at the same time.

Without mbi_products_categories you can write your own class which 
derives from class.tx_ttproducts_category_base.php

This base class already contains most of the needed code.


Greets,

Franz