RE: basket.html and checkout.html

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******

Minivend needs a products table, whatever it's name or type of database.
That table only really needs code and price (weight if you needed for
shipping calculations) to process orders. Other than that you can have the
rest of the information in 100 different databases, 100 different types of
databases, on 100 different machines. As long as you can get to it using
"code" as your key and make your database and DBI talk you can do whatever
you want.

Christopher Thompson

PS/FYI - I don't specifically understand what you mean by "provide a link
from the results" and "then further in all of minivend's html files."
"Link and "further" aren't used in ways I am familiar with.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of G. Tyler Koblasa
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 1999 10:03 AM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: basket.html and checkout.html
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from "G. Tyler Koblasa"
> <gtyler@onestop.net>     ******
>
> Hello... i have been a bit lost with the responses I have been
> receiving,
> so this will be the *clearest* explanation ever of the situation.
>
> We have an existing SQL database with about 10 tables.. There
> are existing
> SQL query CGI scripts, now it place that will simply provide a link from
> the results.. over to minivend.  The basket.html and
> checkout.html and the
> only files, I belive I should be concerned with.
>
> I will need to have minivend pull from Someothertable.Title where
> Someothertable.SkuID = code.  and then further in all of minivend's html
> files have it use this in the [item-description] ... this will
> be the same
> for weight and price..
>
> Now do i need my own products  table if i am using the info
> from other tables?
>
> How do i make [item-code], [item-field weight], and
> [item-price] refer to
> the values in the other tables ?
>
> Also.. how can I simply link (href), from a non-minivend served
> page... to
> a user's shopping basket ?.. (yes, the session ID.. etc would
> be lost, so
> we will rely on cookies)
>
> your help is greatly appreciated.
>
> -Tyler
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