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Re: [mv] Please answer, Shiping prices per item
****** message to minivend-users from Ben-Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il> ******
I see what you mean.
I must do some experiments now.
I thought even using php as wrapper and just feed the basket through forms, but still im far from determine what to do next.
But Ill sure let you all know what was the solution, when the site will be ready.
Chris Rapier wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu> ******
>
> Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> >
> > ****** message to minivend-users from Ben-Nes Michael <miki@canaan.co.il> ******
> >
> > This sound as a good solution.
> > Can I driven the values from database ?
> > I don't want to put 100 arrays in the body of the carts, its will be huge waste of memory and cpu power to put in memory all the arrays.
>
> I've been doing some more thinking about this and I don't think the perl
> approach is necessary.
>
> I would think you would be able to do this but as I said, I'm not really
> sure how one goes about doing it. My feeling is that you could create a
> database using the product type as the key. Along the x axis you'd have
> the quantities.
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6
> foo 1 1 1 2 2 2
> bar 3 3 4 4 5 5
> bix 8 8 12 12 16 16
> box 1 1 3 5 5 5
>
> It would then be a matter of a table lookup done on a per item basis. In
> fact if you did it this way you should be able to do the whole thing in
> minivend tags. Just wrap it inside of an item-list.
>
> Again, the pseudo code isn't nearly close to what is the correct syntax
> but something like.
> [item-list]
> [seti itemship][data table=shipping column="[item-list quantity]"
> key="[item-list code]"][/seti]
> [i'm assuming there is some sort of addition operator but I just don't
> remember it right now. alternatively you can define an entry in the
> shopping cart items list for shipping. You then plug the queried
> shipping value into this field. That way you can track how much it costs
> to ship each item type. I remember there is a tag for tallying a column
> so you could use that and pop the total into your ordersheet.]
> [/item-list]
>
> Again, I've only done one site in minivend and I'm not all that good at
> it. I don't see why this wouldn't work reasonably well but the approach
> might be fundamentally flawed.
>
> Good luck.
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