Just wanted to pick some brains, am considering incorporating a small parts ordering service in my current site and wondering the best way to go about it. The standard structure of Actinic doesn't lend itself to this very well - the customer is probably going to have to start off at a separate database page, where they can type in a product / model number combination and choose the part they need from a parts search results page. First job is to create the database, no small task in itself. Having done that, and presented the customer with a list of parts, I obviously need an order button (usually pre-order as I won't keep everything in stock) so the customer can add the part they want to their cart. The best I can think of at the moment is to provide a field in the database that holds a link to a named anchor <a name="ABC123"> within a very long Actinic page (2000+ parts) that has all the parts set out in a single line product layout with each part code having its own anchor. Or is it possible to pass a parameter to the ca0001.pl script somehow, or any other ideas. Anyone done something like this before? It may never come to fruition as I may stumble on creating the database but suggestions welcome.
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i have recently been charged with the creation of a spare parts site, at a million+ spares, Actinic wasn't right for this task.
if your spares company ever needs to grow, then you'll need to find another tree to bark up.
ground-up custom shop in php: http://www.parts4tools.co.uk/ -
I must say that's a very neat site Gabe, for such a massive index everything appears perfectly concise - the Ajax cart finishes it off. Good job
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