Help- Filtering search on a website by compatability

[rsj]

So I am building a website and I want to add a feature that customers can pick out parts, but I want that when a part1 is chosen to filter the remaining parts based on compatibility with part1.

Example

Customer is building a computer based on parts

he picks an intel CPU

the motherboard get filtered for the CPU based on compatibility

Could you guys give me an idea on how I could achieve this, i just need a general idea because i have never done anything remotely similar. (ex. on a site that does something similar is pcpartpicker)

 

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[Michael Clark]

You're probably better asking on a technical forum/stackoverflow. The answer also depends on what platform you're using - wordpress? drupal? If so you might want to have a look for plugins.

Otherwise, the way I'd do it would be via ajax calls to various server-side endpoints. e.g. a validation endpoint & parts endpoint

The validation endpoint would accept a number of parameters (i.e. graphics card, cpu, power supply etc) and it would work out whether or not those pc parts would work in a system.

You might also have a GET Gpu-Parts endpoint which would accept your current configuration parameters and return a list of gpu parts that would fit into your build.

You're client side code might have a nice JavaScript library that would allow a user filter down based on selections and populate a GPU parts list based off of the ajax call results. There are tonnes of JavaScript frameworks out there for filtering, here's one: http://luis-almeida.github.io/filtrify/block.html

 

[rsj]

Thanks for the help, i am currently using wp and woocommerce, i haven't done much web dev, at my current job im building an erp system and i started programming less than a year ago so its gonna be a big learning curve for me. do you know of any plugins that do something similar i haven't been able to find any.

 

[Jon L]

you're looking for a Configuration tool. Google "Configure Price Quote" There are an absolute TON of products out there that do this ... from free to multi-million dollar engineering applications that can manage the design process for jet engines.

There are probably a few wordpress (and magento and shopify, etc) plugins that do this too.

 

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