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Re: FlyCat
****** message to minivend-users from "Rob Zimmerman" <rob@readysite.net> ******
Mike
This is the part that realy peaked my interest. I saw the cartcfg/newcart part
but wasnt sure where to start. Thanks for the pointer. This will be a very nice
addition. After I get my base established I will be back on this.
Thanks,
Rob
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> Mike said:
> I have been playing around with it a bit. 8-)
>
> Flycat is a way for many (hundreds or more) catalogs to be
> put inside one common MiniVend catalog setup. Each item is
> self-contained as you POST (or GET) it to the shopping cart,
> and the item's data is carried around in the user session rather
> than in a products database. It uses a vendor database to
> specify the look and feel of the catalog; the sales tax setup;
> the shipping setup; and the MailOrderTo address.
>
> It is intended as a way for an ISP or web services provider to offer
> a mom-and-pop catalog service for a few items with fairly easy
> administration; or for a company to offer catalog services to a number
> of functional groups without having to have a centralized database.
> The original concept came from an organization needing to offer 1.5
> million different items that are not in a central database, generating
> the items "on-the-fly" as they were specified.
>
> It is more a proof of concept than anything else; any menus would need
> to be embellished and extended by the user. I don't have the
> time nor the inclination to document it as a finished application.
>
> Like UserDB.pm was (I just rolled that in as a supported module with
> docs) it is a demonstration of adding your own module to MiniVend and
> changing the function of the program. A flycat can coexist quite nicely
> on the same MiniVend server with the traditional database-based catalogs.
>
> If you log in as the user "flycat" (default password is "pass")
> and go to the URL /cgi-bin/flycat/cartcfg/newcart, you can see a menu
> at the bottom which demonstrates some of the functions. The flycat
> user is the default "super-user" for the catalog with the ability
> to access the newcart and cartcfg/master_edit menu pages.
>
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