[TYPO3-shop] Publisher like Categories

[David Fritschi]

Hello Franz
> 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.

That sounds easy. But for Searching, is it easy, when the cats for the 
manufacturer are on a separate sysfolder? The point is not to mix cats 
and manufactuers ...

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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