Re: Weights change by size, and multiple sizes

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

Mark wrote -
>
>I'm very sorry to take up the bandwidth here -- I've gotten most of my
>initial questions answered by the search engine on the minivend site --
>thank you to whomever set that up.
>
>I have been unable to shed any light on my problem.  I know there are
>some cludge-y ways to accomplish this, but I was hoping for a more
>elegant (simple) solution than what I've been able to come up with --
>hopefully using the database structures and tags instead of code patches
>here and there.
>
>Scenerio:
>
>Items have multiple sizes.
>Each size is a different price. (hence, pricing.asc fields: code vs.
>size = price)
>Each size is a different weight.
>
>For computing shipping weights, which do you think?
>
>1. A separate shipprice.asc database (code vs size = weight) -- if so,
>how could I make the basket look up the weight with multiple sizes
>possible?
>
>2. Including extra fields in the pricing.asc database to designate
>weights for sizes -- if so, how would I make it know a particularly
>selected size was to be a corresponding weight, and similarly, how would
>I make the basket know about this weight?
>
>It seems to always come down to the basket...  :)
>
>I would so very much appreciate any help someone might give me with this
>frustration.
>
>Thanks,

Mark - this no doubt sounds like one of those "kludgy" solutions, but if I
was in your boat and I had to have it working soon, I would just create a
unique product record for each permutation of each product (i.e., XXX-A,
XXX-B, etc).  That would take care of the weight and price differences. I
would then structure my HTML and flypages (if you are using them) to
present the information to the user as cohesively as possible, which might
mean alot of static HTML so that the unique item codes can be presented as
size "options" for the "main" item.  It may sound like alot of work
(actually, it is), but at least it is obvious and straight-foward :-)

Good Luck!

- Ed L.

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