RE: Multiple ID's and pull-downs

["Russ" <russ@khouse.org>]

I am attempting to figure out how to do this also.  I havn't made any
progress due to management downgrading the priority of it.  The way my shop
currently runs, the same product with different ID's and different options
is just listed multiple times. (which is annoying in the search results!)

Russ

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
[mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Patrick
Schoonveld
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 1:05 PM
To: minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject: Multiple ID's and pull-downs


******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld
<pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******

I have a client who requires there to be multiple product id's for
different attributes of the products. They would prefer to have
pull-downs to do this. We currently implemented their system using
GoldPaint due to a salesman's choice (not good. hasn't been developed at
all in the past 2.5 years). Basically it would work like this:

id	title	color	size
1000	shirt1	red	XL
1001	shirt1	red	L
1002	shirt1	red	M
1003	shirt1	red	S
1004	shirt1	blue	XL
1005	shirt1	blue	L
1006	shirt1	blue	M
1007	shirt1	blue	S

Then a page with 2 pulldowns that you choose the color and the size.
Then it adds that id number to the user's cart.

I am sort of at a loss for this. Another guy wasted a heck of a lot of
time (2 MONTHS!!!!!) with GoldPaint, and we don't really want to waste
any more time with it. Being a freeware advocate, I suggested the
immensely powerful MiniVend, and am researching it. But, I am new to it.
I know perl fairly well, so I have a few ideas about changing the way
adding an item to the shopping cart actually happens (make it id-less,
and just search for the id at that time based on the attributes), but
would prefer to see if MiniVend has a way to handle that. Any tips,
trick, filthy comments or hate mail are appreciated, as I am new to
MiniVend.

Thanks,
Patrick Schoonveld
Venux Technology Group

"I am, after all a programmer by background, and optimism is an
occupational hazard."
	- Fred Brooks, _The Mythical Man Month_
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