Re: the answer to my question.

[sparky@inetarena.com]

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Ryan thanks so much for answering my question. It wasnt the solution but
it got me going in the right direction. 

Im posting this in the interest of having the correct solutions to newbe
problems ... Often there have been times when i read the question then see
a possible solution and then wonder if it worked. So, Here is what did
work. Hopefully for my fellow newbies this will be a good bit to save into
your notebook on minivend. 

And remember if its already broken take a risk on fixing it. You can
always reinstall. 


sparky


 On Sat, 15 May 1999, Ryan Hertz wrote:

> At 04:44 PM 5/15/99 , sparky@inetarena.com wrote:
> >******    message to minivend-users from sparky@inetarena.com     ******
> >
> >
> >Hello List,
> >
> >I hope your all doing well ive made great progress with minvend and
> >figured out most of the newbie mistakes ... by making them. It seems that
> >the only way to become a minivend master is by shooting yourself in the
> >foot enough times that you learn how to aim ;-)
> 
> 	It never ends.  ;-)
          
          ...... Are you suggesting i should aim for my temple?;-)

> 





> >
> >This one however has me baffled. this came from the error.log in the
> >catalog/estes dir. (estes is a catalog i've created)
> >
> >Im trying to build an order page so i coppied the simple page and made
> >some modifications to it (in the html) and i would assume that the perl
> >from that page (ie catalogs/simple/ord/checkout.html )  would work. 
> >
> >However, there seems to be a problem not with the code but my instalation
> >of a perl object package...... Vend::Table:GDBM .....
> >
> >This problem is a little beyond me as far as perl/minivend goes and i dont
> >even know where to begin looking for an answer. Is it a gdbm file that
> >should be there and isnt? or is it a perl object that isnt being created
> >or is there another perl mod that i need to install in order to get it to
> >work correctly? 
> 
> 	The module it refers to is part of the minivend package.  Your problem may
> be that 'weight' is set to be the criteria for calculating shipping.  (and
> you have no weight field) - look in your catalog.cfg


the criteria that was set was "CustomShipping Yes".
my client isnt having any shipping included with the price other than a
flat fee added on to the total I set the Custom Shipping to "No" and that
seemed to solve that problem. However, I then started to produce a runtime
error that returned an HTTP 500 error. I looked in the catalog error.log
and there was nothing. Then i looked in the mvend error.log and there was
a missing table "transactions" i added that to my catalog.cfg and to the
products directory and like magic it worked, after it was reconfigured. 





> 
> >
> >Sorry to spam the list with such a simple question but i really am lost on
> >this one. 
> >
> >thanks a pile ... 
> >
> >sparky
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >207.149.117.60 FgTWqCWb:207.149.117.60 - [15/May/1999:15:18:48
> >-0700] estes /cgi-bin/estes/process Safe: Can't locate object
> > method "open_table" via package "Vend::Table::GDBM" at
> >/home/webmaster/mvend/lib/Vend/Data.pm line 933.
> >>
> >>
> >>                 $ship = tag_data('country', 'shipmodes',
> >$Safe{'values'}{country});
> >>                 $out .= $ship;
> >>                 $ship =~ s/\s+.*//;
> >>                 $Safe{'values'}{mv_shipmode} = $ship;
> >>                 return '';
> >>
> >>
> >207.149.117.60 FgTWqCWb:207.149.117.60 - [15/May/1999:15:18:48 -0700]
> >estes /cgi-bin/estes/process Custom shipping field 'we
> >ight' doesn't exist. Returning 0
> >207.149.117.60 FgTWqCWb:207.149.117.60 - [15/May/1999:15:18:48 -0700]
> >estes /cgi-bin/estes/process Custom shipping field 'we
> >ight' doesn't exist. Returning 0
> >207.149.117.60 FgTWqCWb:207.149.117.60 - [15/May/1999:15:18:48 -0700]
> >estes /cgi-bin/estes/process Custom shipping field 'we
> >ight' doesn't exist. Returning 0

Out of clairity i should mention that if it had indeed been the case where
i had to calc Custom shipping Ryans answer would have worked and i would
have still encountered the " table 'transactions' not found " error once i
had added "weight" to the products db. I made it into a non issue when i
disabled the "CustiomShipping" with the argument "No". Ryan didnt know
that I didnt explain that was the case. i should have been more clear with
my question. But still the problem is solved. 



Ryan

Thanks again


sparky



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