Poul Jensen
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| Posted: 03/23/2001, 9:44 AM |
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Hi,
I am evaluating this great tool but really would like to see one of the more
complex examples completed with a few additional facilities that I at the
moment cannot find out how to do.
I have downloaded the 'Online Store' and would like to see the following:
1) How do I display a picture who's filename is stored in the 'Items' table
in a new field called 'picture'.
2) How do I 'check out' of the shopping cart when I am ready to comple my
order.
3) How do I send a confirmation e-mail to the buyer on completion of the
order.
4) How do I deduct an item on-stock count in the 'Items' table stored in new
field called 'on_stock'.
Thanks in advance
Poul Jensen
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John King
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| Posted: 03/23/2001, 4:11 PM |
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I'm also reviewing the software and I find the samples included with the
program are nothing short of excellent. Keep in mind - this is NOT a
shopping cart program as such, but as you can see, it is powerful
enough to design one. I guess a shopping cart would be at the top of the
learning curve, so if you're wanting to dive into the deep end, look at
'every' example because the answers are buried away somewhere. The whole
concept of the examples are you give you a guide as to how things are
done, I doubt that they will do the job exactly the way you want them
out of the box. For instance, the forum example is pretty basic, but
once you master this program, you can improve on it to look like the
forum on CodeCharge's home site.
I've had the trial program three days but I'm well on the way to
building a complex catalog. I've really taken to this like a duck to
water, simply because I've been using similar 4GL database developers
(i.e. Clarion) for several years. I'm not joking when I say that my
first attempt with CodeCharge was to create a product list and product
display form. It took me around 15 minutes to complete the job, compared
to 3 days or more hand coding. The program will do what you want, but
you still have to learn how to drive it. The more knowledge you have
with databases, HTML and PHP, the better off you will be.
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CodeCharge
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| Posted: 03/23/2001, 4:56 PM |
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If you purchase CodeCharge Professional, you may also request the CodeCharge
example of our Support System that we use Live at
http://support.codecharge.com , from which you may learn how to:
- Send emails to users automatically, when they enter some information
- Perform more complex actions, queries and updates
As for the 'check out' of the shopping cart, it is something that will
require little more programming (1-8 hours) inside or outside of CodeCharge
and depends on the credit card processing software you use. This may be
fairly simple with payment systems like VeriSign PayFlow Link. You can
simply forward the user to VeriSign payment page with couple parameters and
they take care of the rest.
We will try to include an example of this in future versions of CodeCharge.
In general though, you may need to be able to understand little programming
to perform more complex tasks, and some of them may need to be done outside
of CodeCharge.
In the meantime, we are working on simplifying even those tasks and plan for
CodeCharge to allow for fully "clickable" programming.
"Poul Jensen" <developer@marisoft.dk> wrote in message
news:99g22l$533$1@mail.tankhill.com...
> Hi,
>
> I am evaluating this great tool but really would like to see one of the
more
> complex examples completed with a few additional facilities that I at the
> moment cannot find out how to do.
> I have downloaded the 'Online Store' and would like to see the following:
> 1) How do I display a picture who's filename is stored in the 'Items'
table
> in a new field called 'picture'.
> 2) How do I 'check out' of the shopping cart when I am ready to comple my
> order.
> 3) How do I send a confirmation e-mail to the buyer on completion of the
> order.
> 4) How do I deduct an item on-stock count in the 'Items' table stored in
new
> field called 'on_stock'.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Poul Jensen
>
>
>
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Poul Jensen
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| Posted: 03/24/2001, 5:16 AM |
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Hi John,
Thanks for your reply. I am also a long time Clarion programmer and think
there is great potential here. I just need to get to work some more with
it.
What would be very helpfull was a three that could expand and show all
properties of the pages, forms and fields. Different icon for showing
whether a property was used or not would also be helpful (oh - am I
describing the Calrion 5.5 IDE ... <g>).
Poul Jensen
"John King" <jking@cairns.net.au> skrev i en meddelelse
news:3ABBE659.E710122B@cairns.net.au...
> I'm also reviewing the software and I find the samples included with the
> program are nothing short of excellent. Keep in mind - this is NOT a
> shopping cart program as such, but as you can see, it is powerful
> enough to design one. I guess a shopping cart would be at the top of the
> learning curve, so if you're wanting to dive into the deep end, look at
> 'every' example because the answers are buried away somewhere. The whole
> concept of the examples are you give you a guide as to how things are
> done, I doubt that they will do the job exactly the way you want them
> out of the box. For instance, the forum example is pretty basic, but
> once you master this program, you can improve on it to look like the
> forum on CodeCharge's home site.
>
> I've had the trial program three days but I'm well on the way to
> building a complex catalog. I've really taken to this like a duck to
> water, simply because I've been using similar 4GL database developers
> (i.e. Clarion) for several years. I'm not joking when I say that my
> first attempt with CodeCharge was to create a product list and product
> display form. It took me around 15 minutes to complete the job, compared
> to 3 days or more hand coding. The program will do what you want, but
> you still have to learn how to drive it. The more knowledge you have
> with databases, HTML and PHP, the better off you will be.
>
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Poul Jensen
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| Posted: 03/24/2001, 5:16 AM |
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Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
A couple of suggestions:
What would be very helpfull was a three that could expand and show all
properties of the pages, forms and fields. Different icon for showing
whether a property was used or not would also be helpful.
Also a crossreference tool (e.g. a Windows helpfile) listing where the
various facilities and finer points are demonstrated in the example
applications would be nice.
Poul Jensen
"CodeCharge" <support@codecharge.com> skrev i en meddelelse
news:99grc4$psa$1@mail.tankhill.com...
> If you purchase CodeCharge Professional, you may also request the
CodeCharge
> example of our Support System that we use Live at
> http://support.codecharge.com , from which you may learn how to:
> - Send emails to users automatically, when they enter some information
> - Perform more complex actions, queries and updates
>
> As for the 'check out' of the shopping cart, it is something that will
> require little more programming (1-8 hours) inside or outside of
CodeCharge
> and depends on the credit card processing software you use. This may be
> fairly simple with payment systems like VeriSign PayFlow Link. You can
> simply forward the user to VeriSign payment page with couple parameters
and
> they take care of the rest.
> We will try to include an example of this in future versions of
CodeCharge.
>
> In general though, you may need to be able to understand little
programming
> to perform more complex tasks, and some of them may need to be done
outside
> of CodeCharge.
> In the meantime, we are working on simplifying even those tasks and plan
for
> CodeCharge to allow for fully "clickable" programming.
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John King
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| Posted: 03/25/2001, 1:18 PM |
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I have to agree with the cross reference tool. There are several really
excellent examples included with codecharge, but being able to home in
on a particular feature is time consuming. Clarion has this feature and
it saves hours of work.
Despite this, it's shaping up as a very helpful tool for someone who
needs to shove out a lot of code.
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