[plum] The Plum Shopping Cart

[Dan]

Yes, I know The Plum Shopping Cart hasn’t been written yet, but…   For all of you on the Plum Discussion List that don’t live in Atlanta, GA (or do and weren’t able to attend…) last week Adam and David gave a knock-your-socks-off presentation of Plum to the Atlanta ColdFusion Users Group.  I had heard about Plum but hadn’t experienced it. (and this is just like having heard about sex but not experiencing it.  It certainly sounds exciting, but until you get under the covers you have no idea.)   So I came home, downloaded Plum, and as my metaphor goes…started looking under the covers. Wow. I can’t believe how comprehensive this “little plum” is. It’s hard for me to even imagine what it doesn’t do—yet, for every time I turn the corner (I’m still in the Tutorials !!!) I find even more truly amazing functions and features.   Which brings me to my subject line: The Plum Shopping Cart.   At the ACFUG meeting Adam made a small reference to the possibility that they may someday look at building a Plum Shopping Cart. Well I can’t wait. How soon can you do it Adam and David? If they bring only ¼ of the power of Plum to a Shopping Cart product it will be the best on the market.   I am currently integrating an off-the-shelf CF shopping cart into a preexisting site for a financial industry services company and it’s HELL. Yeah the cart works, that goes without saying. But I am 2 weeks into it and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay over my budget still integrating.  Just tying to find the location within the spaghetti  of such simple things like a font class ???? It’s like the guy who wrote it not only didn’t know what the left-hand or the right-hand were doing, this cart doesn’t even know how many hands it has.  In some cases there are HTML font tags controlling a display, in other areas they’re using CSS classes, but you have to manually edit the style sheet, while at the same time there’s bunches of stuff where an Admin level interface enables you to control the fonts. Etc. etc. It’s like 10 chefs in the kitchen all speaking a different language and they don’t even know what they’re cooking—except to call it lunch. As in out to.   And what I mean to say about all this is that Plum is so well thought out and damn functional that if and when Adam and David find time to build a Plum Shopping Cart it’ll be no contest against ALL the other CF-carts out there.     Thanks again A & D,       Respectfully yours,     Dan Kaufman       An Elephant Never Forgets [EMAIL PROTECTED]