Re: [mv] Question and User's Input

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

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Kevin -

You can do an awful lot with minivend without ever touching Perl.  I really 
helps to be at least passingly familiar with Perl expressions and syntax, 
because some of Minivend resembles that beast, but I would not say it is 
100% necessary, unless you want to write your own user tags or customize 
the source code.  The docs and the mailist archive contain enough minvend 
examples to get you going while sparing you the Perl experience...for a 
while, anyway.

With regards to total cost, if nothing else, you could pass its value to a 
hidden form field of your own, with the name of your choice, and send that 
to your payment gateway.  There are many roads to glory!

- Ed L.

At 12:58 PM 2/29/00 -0500, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Thibeault Kevin 
><kthibeault@addinc.com>     ******
>
>I've been contemplating using minvend for a while now,
>looked over its features, installed and tried the simplecat demo, etc and
>it seems very powerful and well done.
>Before I invest a lot of time into configuring, I was wondering
>a couple things...
>
>Is there a way to customize the total-cost variable name to be something
>other than total-cost? Say for example that the payment gateway will want
>nothing
>other than a varibale named total-charge parsed over to their server.
>
>Again I'm not looking for a total answer (as I'm sure this is probably way
>too basic a question for here) just a simple yes or no.
>
>And lastly, would it be recommended that a strong background in Perl would
>be required to implement minivend for a small product website?
>
>Anyways any input will be appreciated.  I'm trying to decide if I should
>invest time in minivend or search for alternatives.
>
>TIA
>kthibeault@addinc.om
>
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