I was afraid I would get this kind of reaction, but it is not what I want or need. As I mentioned, all these shopping carts are overbloated for the kind of application I am creating. I do not need all the heavy baggage that come with them. I have looked at them, played with them some years back even and never liked them. What I am looking for is something simple that can be used on one page and that, at the most will give me a final page summarizing the choices that have been made in several other pages and then totaling and sending the results to the client. No shopping cart, no frills, no chills, just a confirmation of the order. Let's not forget that a b2b client has no time for all the pretty lace and candy wrap. He/She makes a quick choice, clicks on submit/do-it/or/confirm button and goes back to whipping his crew (in the kitchen, I suppose). I rather suspect that I will have to drum this little thing up by myself. To explain the procedure for client: 1. Click on navigation choice among categories 2. Pages loaded from db (may be several for each category) 3. Select quantity from input boxes (box is either empty or has number entered - this is stored somewhere) 4. Do the same for other pages... 5. When finished, click the finish/submit or whatever button. Go back to work. 6. Back-end tallies the selections adds them enters choices in db and send confirmation to client and to company to fill order. 7. Post-back-end is up to the company to fill and deliver. Payment is taken care of by company processing credit card and then delivering goodies. That's about as simple as it can get. No shipping complications, no credit complications. Just click and go. All the unnecessary overhead is eliminated by first time registration and credit check with confirmed username and password. Otherwise, baby, you don't get nothing from this site. Public access and frills are not on the product pages unless we ever go that way in the future. Believe me, it works... we've done it before and were years ahead of everybody...until 9/11... blew us off because they blew away some of our clients and their clients as we... and then we had someone fresh meat nerds coding and they rather stumbled over their own heels in the programming, but that's another story. Thanks, anyway. Bastien Koert wrote: > > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM, PJ <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > I am setting up a b2b product site where food professionals can order > unique regional products. For this I have to implement a simple series > of pages that display the products and prices. Using php/mysql/css I > load the products, prices etc. with ease. > I have no use for any shopping carts as that is always encumbered by > huge overhead. > I am wondering what might be the best way to incorporate inputs > that can > be dynamically loaded and then calculated and submitted for email > confirmation to client? Perhpas there is some sort of script out there > in freebieLand? > I'd appreciate any suggestions, pointers ----> or examples. > TIA, Phil > > -- > Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > http://www.ptahhotep.com > http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > Get one of the big ones like osCommerce... why redo all the heavy lifting? > -- > > Bastien > > Cat, the other other white meat -- Hervé Kempf: "Pour sauver la planète, sortez du capitalisme." ------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Jourdan --- pj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ptahhotep.com http://www.chiccantine.com/andypantry.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
