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Shopping Cart Feedback?

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 11:16 am
by JPlush76
http://65.108.20.82/newcart/sc_main.php

I'm working on a new shopping cart from scratch and I was wondering if you guys could check it out and throw some feedback on how it works for you. Its on a shared server right now, but it will be moved to a dedicated box once it goes live.

the only category that is filled right now is ALTERNATIVE PROCESS >> TONERS

there are products in there you can add to the cart

I'm hoping you guys can find something I missed or overlooked. Maybe any security issues I'm not seeing off the bat, etc. If anyone wants to see the source code I can post the shopping cart class.

thanks!! 8)

p.s. the whole site isn't finished yet, Ive just uploaded the shopping cart and product catalog pages.

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 11:45 am
by JPlush76
some of the challenges of this cart were custom price breaks

buy # get # free
buy # get them at a new lower price
buy # get a percentage off each item

all in all it took about 4 days to build everything so far.

the check out part is gonna be a biatch though. custom shipping charges, hazardous checking, different taxing for counties within states, passing data securely to an AS/400 system for the credit auth and then passing the data back.

I was using os commerce at first but we needed so much custom work, I just figured it would be a great learning tool to rewrite it from the bottom up.

Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2002 5:26 pm
by Takuma
Ohh will comment later I'm just having a look.

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 12:45 pm
by codewarrior
Ok I randomly picked an item from Alterative thigy and ordered one of it. It took me to the shoppoing cart. I then added 20 more and hit the Update Quantity button. It updated. But when I entered -1 and hit the button, it says, "YOUR CART IS CURRENTLY EMPTY " :?

Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2002 1:39 pm
by JPlush76
yea I did that on purpose to prevent negative pricing from being entered into the database.

if you type in a negative number or 0 it will remove the line item

Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2002 4:27 am
by Klyve1
Under 'Create an account' I got this up on the page:

// echo ENTRY_SUBURB_TEXT; ?> required

With this 'required' being a different font to the rest of them.

I would also change the colour for the 'required' to a darker colour as blue is the least visible to the human eye and many of us males have colour deficiencies - just my accessability 2c worth.

Klyve