[ic] Multiple vendors posible solution.

[Davor Ocelic]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 05:49:22 -0700
Duane Hinkley <duane at downhomewebdesign.com> wrote:

> daniel castro wrote:
> 
> > Hi list,
> > I was thinking for a way to have multiple suppliers, have a functional 
> > single store front, and each supplier be able to upload products 
> > without seeing the other suppliers products.
> >
> > Any commments, drawbacks?
> >
> > Daniel Castro.
>
> Daniel,
> 
> Here's an approach that may work.  Add a column to the products table to 
> store the username of the person that added the products.  Then modify 
> the pages to add, view and edit the products, to only show the products 
> where the username field matchs the username of the person logged in.
> 
> That way each person will only see what they added. 

For this particular issue, TableRestrict config directive could come handy.