Catalog1.01 (Perl Module) and Minivend ... previous thread [mv] Design for Performance - is it possible?

[Liviu Chiriac <lchiriac@ntkcom.com>]

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I installed the Catalog1.01 perl module, which is a cgi script which lets you build an online
catalog, like Yahoo for example. The data is stored in a Mysql database, and one can create
different catalog views based on the same data.
http://www.senga.org/Catalog/current/doc/catalog_toc.html

I created some simple catalogs (for testing), and now I plan to integrate them with minivend, such
that after they decide on an item that they want to buy, they call minivend and add it to the
shopping cart.

However, if they go back and browse the catalog, since it is a separate cgi program (i.e.. not
minivend), it looks like I will lose all the session variables, and I lose the cart info because of
that. (I think the documentation mentions this).

Is this right ? or with the use of cookies I can avoid it?

If  indeed I lose the cart info, is there a trick to make this work and to share these session/cart
variables for different cgi script?

Thanks in adv.,
    Liviu


> >Will I be better of using a catalog for each leaf subdirectory? I think
> >I can end up with a huge number of Catalogs, and minivend may not handle
> >all of them efficiently. Any thoughts on this?

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