Feature / Product comparison script, How difficult is that?

[followgreg]

I would like to have some side by side comparison feature on a website, just like CMSmatrix did it for cms but for cell phones.

Since I dunno much about coding I was wondering :

1- is there a ready solution? I know cmsmatrix uses webgui cms but no clue how they managed to do that?

2- am I heading towards an expensive custom solution? which I probably can't affort.

What do you guys think?

[coopster]

I'm not familiar with any free comparison scripts, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. We tend to roll our own (custom develop) around here though. Have you considered it? It wouldn't be so terrible you know ;)

Basically you develop the first column/row in HTML and substitute your hard-coded values by getting the data from a database or filesystem source. Then the rest would be populated by invoking the same routine and looping as many times as comparison values were selected, passing each cell phone's unique identifier to the database to retrieve the associated information.