[thelist] Build vs. Buy Shopping Cart

[Chris W. Parker]

Rob Smith <mailto:rob.smith at THERMON.com> wrote:

> > I'm still not following you.
> 
> Okay Chris. Drop the drop down menu idea, its confusing you about
> what my intentions actually are.
[snip]
> Each time you can figure any and all quantities/varieties. I want to
> be able to "magically" add and remove items as needed and will appear
> on the screen without having to refresh the screen. I can do all this
> and more with refreshing involved.
> 
> Does this help explain my quest?

Yes, I understand what it is you want to do.

Now I assume you are asking about the technicalities involved in doing this? Well I don't know javascript (but it would be a javascript thing if you didn't want it to refresh the page) but Peter Paul Koch (sp?) does and I remember he wrote a little bit of code that allows you to dynamically add/remove form options within a form. Maybe you can find his site and adapt his code to suit your needs?

However, your subject line is "Build vs. Buy Shopping Cart". My vote is to build your own shopping cart IF you feel there are features you need in a cart that you can't find anywhere else. This happens to be what I am doing.

For example, I tried modifying osCommerce to suit my needs but I find it very difficult to work with and I'm surprised it has such a following. It would have taken me just as long to modify their cart to my needs as it would me to build one from scratch. (Well maybe not exactly, but pretty close I think.)


Chris.

p.s. One more thing, I don't know of any cart programs that already do this.