At 19:55 15/11/00 , you wrote:
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>I am a resonably proficient PHP coder, and I have a project to add a
>shopping cart to a site www.worldartandantiques.com that I put together
>previously. At this stage I have the product catalog online, with the admin
>interface. There are about 1,000 items online.
>
>I have written a shopping cart based on some object oriented code I got hold
>of, and now am faced with doing the user authentication and tracing system.
>I installed freetrade yesterday on my in house server, and I am looking at
>modifying it for this site and scrapping my own code. However, there's a
>couple of issues I am not sure about.
>
>The Product ID, which is in the form of AFD01 or similar, I use is the
>already alloted to the items and is not a sequential number, because I need
>to use the ID number already alloted by the company. How can I intergrate
>this with Freetrade?
The table sku has a field ExternalSKU for that purpose
>
>In my catalog I name the pictures after the Product ID, e.g.,
>/icons/AFD01.jpg, /large/AFD01.jpg, /images/AFD01.jpg for the three images.
>That way the user does not need to give picture names. Can I continue to use
>this, how can I have this into Freetrade.
I see no problem with this, either the image name is inserted into the graphics
field on insertion or the display code can be hacked
>Also, I want to have more than one image for each item, i.e., there will
>only be one icon in the list of products, but when you go to the product
>page, I want icons for each view. Art needs to have more than one picture to
>sell.
add more fields to the item table, and hack the display code screens/item
screens/content etc
also edit the admin pages and the relevant action code
>
>I need to add a lot more fields to the items, width, height, etc.
see above
>
>How difficult is all of this? I can hack code fairly well, but if some of
>this is just not practical, please let me know you thoughts.
It's all do-able, the hardest part is figuring out what happens where, and that
just requires getting stuck into the code. The FreeEnergy architecture is very
re-useable, most of your sql select statements are in functions.
Go for it, this mailing list has been a goldmine and long may it be so....
>Thanks for your help, and thanks to Leon for great work, your book got me
>into PHP.
>
>
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