Shopping Cart
I spent the last week or so working on adapting a shopping cart to AlteredWood. It’s the one I asked about on one of the WebProWorld forums. I couldn’t find anything else that I thought might work. It’s from ShoppingCart.org.
It seems pretty complicated to me. Someone put a lot of time into developing it. I put a lot (for me) of time into trying to figure it out. I’m pretty much at a loss when it comes to programing languages. This is written in Perl and I don’t know what all the symbols mean, but I got enough of an idea of how it works to use it.
I have the cart looking like one of my pages so the customers feel at home when they get to that page. I’m happy about that. And it works! The first jewelry box that I sold using it was subtracted from the inventory. Hooray. That was one of the uses that I got it for. The other was discount coupons, and that worked also. 20% off from now until the 22nd.
Just one thing left to do, or at least one major thing. When you click on an item that is out of stock, it takes you to a page with only a header and the rest is blank. If I click on an item that is not listed, it takes me to a page that says the cart is empty. That’s what I want to happen when the item is out of stock. I have to work on that. It might take me a while to figure out how to do that. More to come.