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ExpressionEngine-Based Product Comparison

March 31, 2008 in ExpressionEngine
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I’m pleased to announce a nice little addition to one of my client’s sites.  Espec.com now has a product comparison tool that runs off the ExpressionEngine backend.

I’m considering a more detailed writeup of how it works down the road - but in a nutshell the select-boxes are dynamically populated by weblog:entries tags, a bit of Javascript assembles a URL from the entry_id of the selections, and the results are constructed with weblog:entries tags reading the entry_id’s from URL segments.

The nice part is that the results pages don’t use any cookies - and hence are able to be bookmarked by users, or sent via email by Espec sales people to prospective clients.

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  1. This is fantastic ! on May 02, 2008

    First thanks for your invaluable contributions to the EE community, I think this is brilliant and I’d like to know how to do this. If you would be so kind as to post the info I’d really appreciate it. I’m new to Expression Engine and I own a personal license which I’m using to build my new site. I’d really like to do something like this, but I’m mostly designer :-)

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