Hi Simon,
I notice you are using php to do the shopping cart stuff (did you implement
this yourself?), have you had a look at 'minivend' ? (it's called something
else now), has any one else had experience of using the perl based minivend
product, what were your experiences?
thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Dienstag, 21. November 2000 18:18
Subject: Re: shopping system client application
>
>> we also have a similar system for estate agents that allows them to store
>> all their property information, houses, owners, prices etc in a client
side
>> database and easily upload this info into a mysql/perl database.
>
>A friend and I did http://www.cityoffice.co.uk/ (bit of a bodge,
>horrible design). The worst part was
>
>a) Getting the existing stock list (50,000 products, stored in a non
>intuitive manner) up to the database
>b) Providing a system to let the owner perform maintenance. There's a
>'Supervisor' wbe mode but also an offline VB app.
>
>Your systems sounds nearly exactly the same and would have made thinsg
>sooo mcuh easier.
>
>Simon
>
>
