Catalog Administration: Products and Attributes

Abstract

Your administrators are now able to edit the departments and categories of your e-commerce web site. In this chapter, we add the missing features relating to managing products and their attributes. More specifically, we will implement features in this chapter that will allow the site administrator to accomplish the following:

• Manage product attributes, specifically list attribute values, add and delete attributes, and assign attributes to products.

• View the list of products in a specific category.

• Edit product details, such as the product’s name, description, price, or whether or not it is on promotion.

• Assign an existing product to an additional category (a product can belong to multiple categories) or move it to another category.

• Remove a product from a category.

• Delete a product from the catalog.

• Allow administrators to access the department, category, or product administration pages right from the catalog.