Re: [mv] AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Birgitt Funk <birgitt@my-books.com>]

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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Eran Binyamin Zeitoun wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from "Eran Binyamin Zeitoun" <eran_zeitoun@karmail.com>     ******

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> 
> > We've dropped ALL of our Minivend catalogs and switched to using PHP
> > scripting.  We found it much easier to learn PHP instead of all the
> > Minivend tags.  While the simple PHP catalogs are not as full featured as
> > Minivend out of the box, its not hard to write the code yourself to do
> > it.  And then, you know exactly what you got!
> >
> > Hope this suggestion helps.
>
> I dont thing that's a suggestion.... this is a runaway path..., i am quite
> sure most of the important features minivend are not included in your
> PHP shopping cart...
> PHP is not so easy as you describe..., if u use it in depth, you will notice
> that its no just "learning" it... you need some programing skills... a
> thing that minivend does not require...

Are you saying minivend does not require programming skills ?

You know, I am getting pretty upset if someone still says these days you
don't need programming skills to efficiently _understand_ MiniVend.

It's a lie and everyone who wants to convince me otherwise to sell me
MiniVend (or his services) I consider irresponsible. 

You need darn well very good Perl programming skills, may be
many of you are still clipping and pasting the simple demo and go far with
it (and then are very proud to have made it), but that's not what I
consider enough from a consultant.
 
How can you understand MiniVend without digging deep in the source
code ? You don't need to have programming skills for that ? How come ?

When I encountered MiniVend in 1996 it had may be thirty tags or so.
It looked very easy at that time. It made you believe you could get by
with simply modifying the simple catalog, no programming skills needed,
no Perl needed. I never really quite believed this even in the early days, 
but today that's definitely over and actually who wants really cut and
paste a shopping cart without really understanding what the program is
doing and how. 

I mean, contrary, the challenge is to figure out the logic behind the
tags. Not so ? 8-)

Birgitt


> I am a ASP / PHP / ZEN programmer..., and i can assure you that if i had to
> build
> a system, like i built with minivend...., i dont think i could get to the
> same level...
> and i have done some big ones....
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Eran.
> 

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