> I've just completed a site for window blinds that had this problem
> multiplied by a factor of 3: fabric, colour, size, and various features
> could all be variations on a single SKU. In the end, I abandoned most of
> FreeTrade and rolled my own database design and functions. But I
> still used
> the basic FreeTrade structure because of its clarity and elegance.
>
> I suspect this is a common problem and wonder whether you've considered
> extending FreeTrade to encompass this.
I think FreeTrade does cover this. The only gotcha is that when you have
one external SKU with multiple prices, you have to create two SKU records,
which is not necessarily bad. It just means it's displayed as two lines on
the item page.
One thing that needs to be added is the ability to arbitrary values to
variations. For example, if you wanted to provide personalized items, you'd
want to ask for a string. There's no where to put that info now, but it's
easy to add.
Actually, it would be interesting to see the site you built.
>
> In another message today, you noted that
>
> >The backtick (`) doesn't have any special meaning to SQL, as far
> as I know.
> >It does have meaning to PHP, though. It works like it does in Perl...it
> >executes the string in a shell.
>
> News to me, but great news! Is this undocumented and/or is there
> anywhere I
> might get more info? (I'm not up on Perl).
Try this:
<?
$s = `ls`;
print("<pre>$s</pre>");
?>
It's like the system() and exec() functions.
Leon
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