Re: Weights change by size, and multiple sizes

[Mark Rushing <rushing@orbislumen.net>]

Tested or not, Mike, this worked BEAUTIFULLY!!  Obscure enough to make
me dig a bit to understand, but in doing so, it's opened up a lot for me
where MiniVend's concerned...

Thank you so much...  :)

Mark



mikeh@minivend.com wrote:
> 
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> Quoting Mark Rushing (rushing@orbislumen.net):
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> >
> > 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...  :)
> >
> 
> As it must. You didn't give any data examples, but I can guess...
> 
> UserTag compute_weight Order cart
> UserTag compute_weight Routine <<EOR
> sub {
>         my ($name) = @_;
> 
>         my $cart;
>         if($name) {
>                 $cart = $Vend::Session->{carts}{$name};
>         }
>         else {
>                 $cart = $Vend::Items;
>         }
>         return 0 unless $cart;
> 
>         my $weight;
>         foreach my $item (@$cart) {
>                 my $item_weight = 0;
>                 if ($item->{size}) {
>                         $item_weight = Vend::Interpolate::tag_data(
>                                                                                                 'pricing',
>                                                                                                 "$item->{size}_weight",
>                                                                                                 $item->{code},
>                                                                                                 );
>                 }
>                 $item_weight = Vend::Interpolate::tag_data(
>                                                                                                 'products',
>                                                                                                 'weight',
>                                                                                                 $item->{code},
>                                                                                                 )
>                                                 if ! $item_weight;
>                 $weight += $item_weight;
>         }
>         return $weight;
> }
> EOR
> 
> Untested, but it should work (minivend.cfg).
> 
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