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answerman
Starting Member
USA
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 Posted - July 15 2008 : 15:56:03
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Hey. Using VP-ASP v6.5.0.1 with mySQL.
For a bunch of reasons, I think I need to do what I want as an ASP app outside of VP-ASP, and then pass my results to VP-ASP as an "on the fly" product not existing in the database, and just use VP-ASP as a way to collect the order and allow checkout.
I looked through the docs and see that I can do so, but I was wondering if there are limitations on what I pass. Basically, I need to create a custom product (cabinet doors) which will be priced using a calculation that takes into account a number of different parameters. I have no problem doing this in standalone classic ASP, but was wondering what the limitations on the fields might be. For example, I might need to pass the following info:
Wood type
Door style
Edge profile
which would usually be "features" with a standard product, but I don't want to set up all the different products in the store.
These, along with other parameters like height and width, affect the price, so i want to be able to configure them outside the store and then just pass the calculated values and "features" to VP-ASP.
Ideas? Is it as simple as creating one generic product with generic features and passing these values as features? That's what I'm hoping. The documentation didn't seem to shed much light on that, however.
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answerman
Starting Member
USA
23 Posts |
Posted - July 17 2008 : 15:07:27
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devshb
Senior Member
United Kingdom
1904 Posts |
Posted - July 18 2008 : 02:35:59
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You can use a non-database add-to-cart url/call/form-posting; that'll add a description/price to the cart for a product which doesn't exist in the database, with a url/posting like:
<a href="shopaddtocartnodb.asp?productname=My+Product+Test+Name&quantity=2&Price=43.50
">Click to Order/a>
However, if doing that, you'd probably want to add some kind of extra custom-coding that ensures that the price taken across to shopaddtocartnodb.asp is the same as what you specified, or that you don't flag the order as fully successful/processed until you've cross-checked the price on the order against what it really should have been.
see:
http://www.bigyellowzone.com/support/issue_view.asp?ID=217
Alternatively, create a custom-built function which adds the product to the products database if the permutation doesn't already exist (safer/better, but would need more development time/costs)
Simon Barnaby
Developer
[email protected]
www.BigYellowZone.com
Web Design, Online Marketing and VPASP addons |
Edited by - devshb on July 18 2008 02:42:05 |
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support
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Posted - July 19 2008 : 08:02:11
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Hi there
You can certainly do this with VPASP.
Please see the following seciton in the User Guide:
4.5 Add a Product to the cart without it being in the VP-ASP database
Thanks
Cam
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