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[ic] Questions about IC
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:02:05AM +0000, Steve Graham wrote:
> I have been working on converting our web shop over to IC 4.8 with
> foundation catalog as the basis for about 6 months - since I too run the
> business with an exisiting working website, about 6000 items, and 600 web
> pages on the current server.
>
> I have spent alot of my time learing Linux, and not able to work on the
> catalog but (2-3 hours a day if I am lucky) - pretty time consuming, but IC
> will do everything I need plus a whole lot more.
>
> 1 - after you have your database populated simply set all inventory to some
> high value once a week (10,000 in stock,or whatever), by whatever method
> you like to access the database, I am using MYSQL, so you could write a php
> script to do this, or since I am familiar with MS .asp I am writing
> routines on a MS server to modify the database.
mysql mycatalog -e "UPDATE products SET inventory=99999" # or whatever the fields are
I suppose you could do that in asp but php sounds even better. :-)
Why not just turn off the inventory?
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Christopher F. Miller, Publisher cfm@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/
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