Don't die yet Adam--but I am too very pleased that you are happy. You seem to speak of PlumCart as if we're in the homeward stretch. Is there an ETA?
...and to extend on my prior comments: functionality aside (not dismissively), this "ez" cart I bought can be implemented as a stand-alone model or integrated into a site. By integrated I simply mean that the look-and-feel of all cart pages "can" be made to match the site. This part in particular has been hell with the product I bought. There is no rational rhyme or reason for how and where display controls are placed. And likewise, even if I were to use it as a stand-alone, I would want the look-and-feel to be a little less hokey. And this is what I meant that one would see without question in a Churvis product, logical and rational behavior. If one is going to tweak style templates then you do so in one place. You don't bury and hide the controls (admin'd style sheets + multiple misc-style sheets requiring manual editing + plain-old-fashioned html font tags) Another problem I had/have is the author's assumptions of what display var's I want and where. For example, I wanted to have "#Category_name# + #Item_name#" in the "display block" for a product-item. But it wasn't there and I spent hours, up to almost a day, trying to figure out which query they were coming from and how to call 'em. I can definitely see a Plum Wizard-like WYSIWYG tool to build, re-build, the display block template and that's it. In my "ez" product there are no less than four "display block" sets of code which ALL have to look the same to the site visitor--that I had to find and edit to get my dear "#Category_name# + #Item_name#" header into. Do it once in one place. Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Churvis Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [plum] The Plum Shopping Cart > I had heard about Plum but hadn't experienced it. (and this is just > like having heard about sex but not experiencing it. I can now die happy. Someone compared Plum to the pleasures of sex! :) > 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. PlumCart will slipstream right into the Plum framework with only a couple of boilerplate lines of code added to Environment.cfm, Global.cfm, and perhaps a @import statement in the basestylesheet.css. > 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, but frankly PlumCart will probably not have some of the features of commercial carts, like configuring the majority of behavior through an admin interface, or working with every possible payment gateway on Earth. PlumCart will make modifying policy-oriented behaviors easy through the code, and leave minor behaviors to be modified through the admin interface. Taxation will be handled through easily-accessible methods in ShoppingCart.cfc. The shopping interface will be very nice, though, and very straightforward. Interactive line totalling and subtotalling when quantities are changed, direct connection with the Plum CMS for displaying additional information about products, etc. We also have a much more advanced wholesale-retail system that enables contract-based pricing and quantity-tiered pricing, but we implement those on a custom basis because of differing customer needs. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Member of Team Macromedia http://www.ProductivityEnhancement.com Download Plum and other cool development tools, and get advanced intensive Master-level training: * C# & ASP.NET for ColdFusion Developers * ColdFusion MX Master Class * Advanced Development with CFMX and SQL Server 2000 ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
