Re: your mail

[Ken Berland <ken@hero.com>]

It seems like you could use the [perl] tag.

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Ed LaFrance wrote:

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> 
> Hello listies -
> 
> I would like to try something that may not be possible without some serious
> source code mods - in which case I would probably default to a "plan b".
> 
> I would like to be able to produce a calculated price for a custom cut item
> in a cart, based upon the formal qty * length * width.  Another Minivend
> user was quite helpful with a solution which allows the end user to type a
> custom item attribute value into a text field; I can set up two of these
> (one for length, one for width).  The magic question is, how do I perform
> the calculation using these two values and quantity to arrive at the final
> price?  I took a look at PriceAdjust and CommonAdjust - they both appear to
> rely on values in database fields, whereas the "custom" attributes appear
> to be stored only in "session" memory.
> 
> Has anyone solved this one before?  I imagine that other users must need to
> sell  stuff by area or weight or some other non-widget value.  Number lists
> wont work in this case because length and width could each be any real
> number.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> - Ed L.
> 
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