Re: adding non-databse items to cart

[Dmitriy Katsman <dmk@acinc.com>]

I know that I could do that....
however... if after adding the system to the shopping cart, customer decides that he now wants
same computer but with only 64Mb of Ram, he will click back.. select 64Mb instead of 128Mb, and
click BUY IT again... what happens now.. .is that he has 2 of everything except 1 128Mb SDRAM and
1 64Mb SDRAM... !!! You think they are gonna go there and delete everything they don't need?? l
don't think it's  a good way to go...

however... do you know how to do on the fly items? (with simple catalog)

Thanks,
Dmitriy

Patrick Schoonveld wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******
>
> Instead of having on the fly items, I would have a person purchase
> things one by one to build the computer from instock parts. I.e. 1
> Western Digital 10gig HD, 1 Matrox G200 8mb vid card, 1 128 SDRAM PC100,
> etc.....
>
> Dmitriy Katsman wrote:
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Dmitriy Katsman <dmk@acinc.com>     ******
> >
> > Hey everyone:
> >
> > here is my question... I need help with figuring out the way to add
> > items that are not in one of my databases to a cart...
> > I.e... I want to make up items as I go... specifically custom build
> > computers...
> > i.e... The item in database is:  001    <TAB>    Base Pro Series
> > Computer    <TAB>    $500
> > then after I want to be able to add this item to the cart with
> > MODIFIED price and description...
> > so.. for example if people select to add some stuff, it would put
> > something like this into a shopping cart:
> >
> > Base Pro Series Computer                $764
> >     - Pentium III 500 CPU upgrade
> >     - 128Mb RAM
> >     - 10Gb Hard Drive
> >
> > I know... I could have had all those 'upgrade' items in my database, and
> > just add them to shopping cart as separate items, however, I don't want
> > to do it, since it will create a mess between upgrades and items
> > purchased separately...
> >
> > Anyway..
> > the question is... how to add 'made up by me stuff' to the shopping
> > cart?
> >
> > can I maybe do something like:  [order description="shflsdfhsdfsdj
> > lkdslkds  sdfh k<br>lkdsfhls" price="764"] ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dmitriy
> >
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