magento : user file upload

Question

i need to allow a customer to upload a picture, or a text in a textarea, associated with that product while putting it on his cart.

I looked in configurable products attributes, but you can only make dropdown or multiple selects, no textarea or upload fields.

Is there a built-in solution for this ? Reading magento forums, i saw the user upload option was implemented in magento 1.3, but isn't available in my magento ver. (1.7.0.2)

Answer 1

There are some extensions available at http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/ but I didn't test them as they are mostly with costs. I also found a free one, but didn't test that either: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/product-attachments-extension.html

Answer 2

You can use custom option with input type "file".

Answer 3

I don't think there is any built-in way to do this, you can create an attribute though for it.

You can allow your customer to write comments before placing an order with this Free extension: http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/customer-order-comment.html