Re: [mv] Custom Shirts

[cfm@maine.com]

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 06:23:06PM -0400, Victor Nolton wrote:
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> Had an conversation with an interesting lady today..
> 
> She wants a minivend site that first you select the size shirt you 
> want, then the color, then the style, then you pick a design for the 
> front and a design on the back (dont have to pick one) and or offer 
> lettering on the front or back...
> 
> Has ANYONE done this? I believe it would be hard to do based on the 
> amount of variables. The only plus is the prices are pretty much flat 
> rate per shirt.
> price for small,medium,large (doesn't matter on color or style except 
> long sleeve) up to 3x and then so much for 1 design (front) and so 
> much for design 2 (back) and then of course a charge for lettering of 
> some sort.
> 
> Any example sites out there?

We're talking with a potential client about something similar.

Seems to me the selection parts are pretty straightforward.  She also
wants to be able to provide upload the image, scale the image, "print a proof",
choose the fonts and sizes.  And let's not forget "push this image around"
and snake the lettering.  ;^>

If you can define a known number of attributes, attributes might work.
We were thinking more along the lines of an arbitrary attribute "hash" and
a "proceedure" for building an item, like what you have in mind: pick
the size, then then color, etc....  Then just pretty print that hash for
the order ticket.  Strictly a single construction at a time.

I **do** think it would be very hard with vanilla minivend tags.  It's hard
to imagine doing it well without tying in system calls to gd or imagemagick
or some such.

cfm


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