[ic] Agora Shopping Cart is a lot better!

[John Beima]

G'Day Again Steve,

I too have used MiniVend and now Interchange as a front end to an SQL database 
and not to seel anything. It is PERFECT for this application.

Personally I treat MiniVend as a tool for a dynamic content based site. Any 
site can be braught to life with MV/IC.

As to who should and shouldn't use it. Well if you are not a programmer you 
shouldn't use it or you should hire one. Minivend is not for new users. If you 
don't know or can't learn Perl, and have no idea what a shell account it, don't 
bother me hacks about an excelent product. I actually wrote that guy an e-mail 
he pissed me off so much.

There are three types of people in this world smart, stupid, and ignorant. 
Ignorant people are just people with a lack of knoweldge. After you teach them 
they are fine. Stupid people however are just stupid, and I can't deal with 
stupid people. He is stupid.

As to a single store using MV/IC, why not! I have setup two of these. Most of 
the time you just replace the graphics, and do minor mods to the template and 
away you go!

John


Quoting Steve & Patti Getzinger <steveandpatti@wubs.org>:

> John,
>   There are so many pointers on this person but I liked that post also.
> I
> actually looked at agora.com listed in his post and it doesn't look all
> that bad.
> There are many more features available with MV/IC but MV/IC as I
> interpret it
> (feel free to jump in and cut me off at the knees here Mike :) ) was not
> designed
> for single site people first. It was designed with server admins in mind
> who
> distribute it's abilities to end users running one site. I think many
> people jump
> in thinking it's a script to help them sell on the Net.
> 
>   It is extremely powerful without using it for selling a product. Let's
> examine
> running a site with something like one of my present projects. We are
> putting the
> Bible up online. Look at all involved to put 31,100 seperate verses that
> must be
> sorted and stacked and all that good stuff. Now add in the ability to
> pull from
> that file with simple [if] tags and then use simple [include] tags and
> we have a
> site with a ton of cool features without 100 little scripts to do it
> all. No SSI
> to deal with and so on. With MV/IC I have built in search that I can
> tweak to my
> desires easily. I don't have to build 31,100 pages nor anything even
> close.
> 
>   Yes I recommend MV/IC to people who need many of it's features that
> are not
> selling a thing. GREAT site tool. By the way I plan on adding multiple
> versions
> of the Bible as time goes on. 31,100 seperate entries per version. I
> should have
> well over 100,000 "products" before to long. :)
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> John Beima wrote:
> 
> > G'Day Steve,
> >
> > Actually I liked his prior e-mail about running the config script
> through his
> > web browser... That shows his skill level right there... Let them have
> him!
> >
> > John Beima
> > jbeima@palb.com
> >
> > P.A.L.B. Systems - Phone: (780)451-1086 - Fax: (780)447-4760
> > 11639-122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5M 0B6
> >
> > Quoting Steve & Patti Getzinger <steveandpatti@wubs.org>:
> >
> > > Well I think about sums it all up :) Everyone ready? Run :) What do
> you
> > > expect from someone who sends HTML email :)
> > >
> > > Steve
> > >
> > > Twm Enterprises wrote:
> > >
> > > > Agora is a lot better. Better Docs, Faster and it works on all
> servers
> > > > that except CGI. I got this and it plain stinks!!!! throw it in
> > > > garbage!!!! go to www.agoracgi.com
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
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John Beima
jbeima@palb.com

P.A.L.B. Systems - Phone: (780)451-1086 - Fax: (780)447-4760
11639-122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T5M 0B6