Particle, Ok I have a question - Assume you have a product such as a t-shirt that requires options (size, color, etc) to be set before adding to your cart, how can you just click add to cart and have it added to your cart if you don't first go to a products
detail page first where these options can be selcted? The ideal situation is to check if the product has attributes (options) to be set and if so go to the details page otherwise go straight into the cart. I don't know why or how you caused an error on the
shipping page or what you were using when you did - the online demo, the download demo? I'm not the author of that cart so who knows. Give me a link to a cart you have designed and I will get an error to generate in a few minutes. Not sure why you turned this
into a bash session instead of trying to help someone on their quest to create an e-commerce site for their client. Anyway, if you have the time and budget to write your own e-commerce site than by all means do it, but I suggest you use one of these off the
shelf carts that you can extend and customize. And if the IBuySpy cart is a piece o' ... then why on earth would anyone suggest it as a reference for building one.
I didn't mean turn it into a bash session, and I did find an error on http://www.hanklloydstennis.com shopping cart. What I am trying to say is that I don't share the same opinion as you when you say the cart is "Excellent". There's always room for improvement.
YES the Starter Kit is a Piece O' Shite, and I recommended using it as a starter because that's all that it's good for, a starter. (Which is why that's it's name, but don't use the code, refer to it when you aren't sure how you go about doing something - and
keep in mind a lot is missing). As far as having to select product options before being able to add it to the cart, this is why I called it symantics, there's a View Details link and an Add to Cart button on the product listing, but they BOTH go to the deatils
page. Why not lose the Add to Cart if it's not ADDING TO CART? I recommend coding your own cart, and not using an off the shelf cart. You probably won't be completely happy (like me) if you have to work with somebody else's design / aplication. Decide what
exactly you need your cart to do, plan it's design properly (this is the biggest part), then code away. And thanx Kragie. Have a nice day TimH. :) (I really mean that, you've been really helpfull to me in the past)
War doesn't determine who is right, it determines who is left.
Well it appears that tennis store is using version 1 of the cart where it is now at 2.0+ so that could be it, not to mention you never know what the shop owner/developer did under the hood to modify the code for their needs. In other words the original cart
code could have been solid but with their custom mods they might have broken something. I'm always here to help, Particle as you know I have helped you in the past. I try very hard to mix in my opinion with an educated one as well. One of this issues with
cart software is that it's made/sold with flexibility in mind. Obviously you need to try and offer features and functions that will apply to a mass audience. Anyway, this has been fun but for those interested in building an e-commerce site I suggest reading
up on OOP, e-commerce design and writing secure code. Some people really hate IBuySpy as an example, and others think it's so, so. I don't hate it but it's not the best approach so take it and apply some of these other principles and you may be off to a good
start. I'm still a fan of using off the shelf software where possible to cut development time and cost but it's not the rule.
TimH
Member
532 Points
109 Posts
Re: Secure shopping carts
Aug 03, 2003 10:29 PM|LINK
Particle
Contributor
4700 Points
938 Posts
Re: Secure shopping carts
Aug 04, 2003 12:34 AM|LINK
TimH
Member
532 Points
109 Posts
Re: Secure shopping carts
Aug 04, 2003 12:46 AM|LINK