[ic] Making Catalogs from scratch

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 25 14:24:00 2002


At 01:47 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Dan Browning wrote:
>
>>At 01:18 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>>Dan Browning wrote:
>>>
>>>>At 12:41 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I've been putting together a catalog from scratch and there are 
>>>>>certain looks and functions and feels that I would like to adopt into 
>>>>>my design that aren't documented.  Specifically what I'm working on 
>>>>>now is the basket page and the fly page where it lists the part, if 
>>>>>it's in stock and gives you the option to put in a quantity and "BUY 
>>>>>NOW."  I'm interested in having my flypage and basket just like the 
>>>>>demo, but copying code has proved less than successful.  I get an 
>>>>>Internal Server Error.  Any ideas?  my beta test site is 
>>>>>www.rchobbies.ws with a link to the store from there.
>>>>>Thanks for everyone's help in advance
>>>>>Brandon Mercer
>>>Well, not a whole lot.... just that there is a runtime error.  Seems 
>>>like it's perl related, maybe it will mean more to you because I don't 
>>>understand that much about the perl/database side of this.
>>>
>>>192.168.0.3 WlgagRhn:192.168.0.2 - [25/September/2002:13:16:47 -0400] 
>>>rchobbies /cgi-bin/rchobbies/pr1060.html Runtime error: Can't call 
>>>method "record_exists" on an undefined value at 
>>>/http/interchange/lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm line 1934.
>>
>>
>>I think it points to the "Foundation code relies on some fields that 
>>aren't in your database" theory.  Namely, the IC inventory stuff relies 
>>on the "inventory" table.
>
>So I noticed in the products directory in the foundation catalog that 
>there is a inventory.txt file.... do I need one of those for my store as 
>well or is it more involved than that?

Yes, and yes.  The Database section of the docs should get you along a 
little ways.  See also:  current thread on dbconf.  :-)

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