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Type of script needed?

For changing options/values of large assortment of items

         

richiedoc

8:29 pm on Nov 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Hello everyone. I'm new to this group but have had an ecommerce business for three years. My site is in need of a solution and I'm just not sure where to start: An asp or php or cgi script...perhaps one of you will know. I think what I need is cgi related. Here is what I want to do:

I have about a thousand pictures of different widgets. Each widget is available on about ten different items, and each item comes in a different size, and some even a different color. At the moment I have multiple drop down menus and about 7 submit to cart buttons for each widget page. I want to consolidate everything so that I have only a couple drop down selection menus with one submit button. I'd like to have one data base that contains all the styles, sizes for each sytle, and color for each size. That way if I add a new color to style A, for example, I don't have to reformat 1000 indy pages. And when the customer picks the style (media) they want the widget printed on, the page reloads with the sizes available for that style, then reloads with the colors available for that size. Then they click submit and it's done.

I've seen this on other sites, and one of them had /cgi-bin/ in the URL. If anyone knows of this particular script, what it is called, and where I can purchase/obtain it, I would be most grateful. Thank you all for your time, and for making this site a great resource.

Distel

8:42 pm on Nov 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The easiest, fastest, and most powerful way is PHP + MySQL. Perl CGI is also suitable in terms of performance, but it's harder to learn and use. Forget ASP. ;)

I'm not sure if there exists a ready-to-use script ,though. You might want to check out cgi-resources dot com (Perl) and php dot resourceindex.com (PHP) or Hotscripts dot com(various) though.

hanuman

4:06 am on Nov 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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i would seriously look into cartclickpro.com's ccp51 99$ package. it is a very powerful script that can handle product options and sub-options.

hth

johnroger

11:01 pm on Nov 24, 2003 (gmt 0)

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digiSHOP might be a good fit? They can customize their solution to what you are asking for.