Understanding Product Reference???

[axpoint]

I have a question regarding the behaviour of the product pages...

When I change a product reference number in the form elements of a product I get a different product when I click the buy button...

What I am trying to do is understand what file holds the product pricing information that the pl scripts refer to when you goto the checkout pages...

This is important for specific modifications a client requires...

Any help much appreciated...

[wjcampbe]

prod ref -> product -> product price

different ref -> different product -> different price

Makes sense.

Now you appear to be saying that when a customer chooses to buy product 1 at $12.00 you want to change their order and sell them product 3 at $15.00 - surely I am misunderstanding your post?

[NormanRouxel]

The product details for each page are in the A000n.cat type files. There's one of these for each Section (HTML page) and they contain the products for just that page.

Note that if a product is in another page than the one you're posting from then you'll have to look up a completely different A000n.cat.

These aren't generally used as data files but are actually Perl hash structures that can be loaded via eval().

It may be helpful to say what it is that you want to do in case there's a better way.

[axpoint]

The purpose of this exercise...

I am researching Actinic developed sites to find a global solution for incorporating live data into the pages using PHP and MySQL... I ahve several key clients that need to change prices at the push of a button.

More information is available i an alternative post...

http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?t=17833

I realize that these methods are unsupported... But I like many others im sure would like to be able to use actinic Developer as a design tool, and then provide a PHP MySQL framework for generating online products / change prices or product details... etc. from an online administrative interface, and to keep actinic tools (i.e. order manager) in the loop...

I hope this helps...