On Apr 12, 2005 1:57 PM, Adam Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You seem to speak of PlumCart as if we're in the homeward stretch. Is
there
> an ETA?
PlumForums are first, and that should be in a proper Beta by the beginning
of next week.
PlumCart has no ETA as of now, but we have all the pieces already built.
It's a long haul from working pieces to finished commercial product, though.
> 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)
Exactly. In Plum -- and in any Plum product -- you should be able to close
your eyes and guess at least the basics of where something is, what it's
most likely named, and how it works, and you should be correct at least 90%
of the time. Installation and integration should be a matter of running a
database script, adding a couple of lines of CFML at the most, and running
setup.cfm.
> Another problem I had/have is the author's assumptions of what display
var's
> I want and where.
In PlumCart you'll have a Plum custom tag named something like
<cf_DisplayCatalogItem itemNumber="..."> that internally will call a method
to retrieve both the catalog item and any associated content items in the
Plum CMS (like additional product information). The custom tag will produce
a DIV containing the detail markup for the catalog item, and your display
page can then either absolutely or relatively position this DIV as you like
using CSS.
Detail display markup will learn toward CSS as much as is feasible, and use
tables where necessary, and all styling will be either the standard Plum
styles or cart-specific styles that are imported via a single @import
statement in basestylesheet.css.
You can easily rearrange the presentation by modifying the one custom tag's
markup, and all the columns of the catalog item's record are available for
you to display as you like, anywhere you like.
Respectfully,
Adam Phillip Churvis
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