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  • 25-06-2013 10:30PM
    #1
    soups05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭


    Hi all, I hope this is the right place to ask this. At the moment I am nearing the end of a level 5 fetac course in ebusiness and web design. Using dreamweaver I have managed to create a site for a local shop which features a deli page.
    This page has an order form in it which is to allow customers to select a roll/sandwich and add fillings. The idea is to increase sales and help secure my job :).
    My problem is that my tutor has informed me that the form needs a database,sql and php to work. He suggested using tomatocart and i have been struggling with this as it seems to be intended for single products with out adding on extras like buying a roll but not adding butter,chicken,salad etc.
    I have no background in IT and the online tutorials are aimed at making sites like currys or argos. (hope you follow me there)
    so my questions:

    can tomatocart be restyled to allow for a single product to have extras added to it?
    is there a site like w3schools for cms programs?

    google has let me down on this search but my terms may be too generic.
    would it be easier to learn php etc?


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  • #2
    onemorechance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,078 ✭✭✭onemorechance


    It would be useful to you long-term (and short-term :pac: ) to learn php and sql.

    You need to look at the user guide for the software. In this example, it has a product, a laptop, which has attributes, like a cpu. So in a similar way you could make a base product, such as sandwich and add attributes, such as butter.

    If you want to learn this software, use their userguide and documentation!

    A quick look at this software, and it seems good, open source, multi-platform, and "Compared to other open source shopping carts, TomatoCart is unprecedentedly easy to use."

    If you want to learn development then PHP and MySQL are a good start.

    If you are only interested in this one aspect of IT then this shopping cart software is a good start.


  • #3
    soups05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭soups05


    thank you, i will give that a try. This is a once off project but i am starting college in sept so i won't have time to go really in-depth with php etc.

    The course I'm starting is a computer course :o the level 5 was to be a starting point. Things just got out of hand.
    I will let you know if I get this to work.


  • #4
    soups05
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭soups05


    Thank you Onemorechance that worked great. It's been a long day with a lot of editing but now that i've been pointed in the right direction it is progressing well.

    I don't know if its a lack of knowledge or simply not being able to see the wood for the trees but I read those instructions loads of times and did not spot how to do that.

    thanks again.


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