Code Sharing (Was: Go to checkout only if login is successful)

[Tim Shea <tim@valutech.net>]

******    message to minivend-users from Tim Shea <tim@valutech.net>     ******

Hi Barry,

On Monday, March 01, 1999 3:49 PM, Barry Treahy [SMTP:treahy@mmaz.com] wrote:
> ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
> One can only assume that I'm either attempting something so strange that everyone else just shakes there
> head wondering what rock I crawled from under, or perhaps everyone that is experienced is so swamped that
> they can't help.
<snip>

Most of the questions posted to this list are in areas that I don't forsee using and haven't experimented 
with, so I don't post answers to them. When I do see a question regarding something I have experience or an 
interest in, and I have the time, I usually try to post my best answer, based upon my experience or the brief 
research necessary to make a semi-educated answer to the question (with research sometimes taking up to 
an hour).

> I'm a first timer and this was my first MV site.  It has not been simple and I've probably done a lot of
> things wrong just get it working and those work-arounds may hit me in the butt later, but I feel that a
> lot of these  frustration could have been avoided if I had a better understanding of the product, what I
> could realistically expect from the list for support, and of course had more time for the project.
<snip>

I'm also a first timer to Minivend. I am the only "employee" in my business, struggling not only with 
Minivend and html, but with everything else in the business (accounting, purchasing, sales, warehousing, 
marketing...). I share your feelings about getting Minivend working and expectations of the list. I'm sure that 
many of us have worked hard to solve problems that have already been solved by others many times.

> I do not mind sharing or posting solutions to questions that I've had to work through or around, but I'm
> not going to take the time now to sort through everything I've asked in the past since there may in fact
> be no interest in what I've had to do...
<snip>
It would be wonderful if more code examples were shared by everyone on the list, as I use the list archive 
as a constant reference any time I run into a little difficulty. It would also be nice if there were an indexed 
repository of code examples available. I would be more than willing to share pieces of my code to help others.

If anyone is interested, I am more than willing to share code for dynamic menu generation (menus
are generated on-the-fly from a database of menu selections) and an "As-You-Shop" order total quotation
(which includes sales-tax and shipping).

I'm looking for examples of multi-step checkout pages. Anyone care to share?

Cheers,
Tim Shea

> Thompson-Jordan wrote:
> 
> > ******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******
> >
> > Why don't you could improve the quality of the free answers in this list
> > by posting the code to the problem you've solved. It could have been that
> > no one knew the solution. :-)
> >
> > Christopher Thompson
> >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy
> > > <treahy@mmaz.com>     ******
> > >
> > > Gideon... This is exactly what I wanted to do, as a first time
> > > MV user and site, and had to learn
> > > the hard way as I received answers to probably one out of ten
> > > questions...
> > >
> > > I have done this at the URL: www.midwest-microwave.com/order
> > >
> > > If you want to look at it and it is close enough to what you
> > > want to do, I'd be happy to share my
> > > source pages with you.
> > >
> > > Barry
> > >
> > > Gideon van Gelder wrote:
> > >
> > > > ******    message to minivend-users from "Gideon van Gelder"
> > > <gideon@swingmaster.nl>     ******
> > > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > There's a problem I can't seem to solve:
> > > > I want all my customers to successfully login to the UserDB
> > > before they can
> > > > enter the checkout page.
> > > > If the login fails, I want them to again see the login-page
> > > again stating
> > > > the [data session failure], not the checkout-page.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance,
> > > >
> > > > -Gideon

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