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I have a situation that suits best a configurable product. The best approach to what I need is this http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/tutorial-creating-a-configurable-product.
What I need more is the system to show another piece of information when a user selects an option like this:
Is there any possiblity I can do this from the Magento admin or would this require extra development?
Thank you in advance
To answer your question:
Is there any possiblity I can do this from the Magento admin or would this require extra development?
No, there is no possibility to do this in the backend. There is no possibility to add or change these strings and no JS is implemented to show these texts.
So yes, this requires extra development
If the list for the options is not too long and you don't want to administrate it easily or user should do this, you can just add a few lines JS.
<select>The problem here is, that you can't translate in JS files.
The alternative is to add a template, then you can use magentos translation: $helper->__('english string')
If you want to have it easily translated in the backend you have to invest a lot of work and write a whole module, extend the attributes and add texts in the backend to be changed
