[ic] Making Catalogs from scratch

Brandon Mercer interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 25 13:56:01 2002


Dan Browning wrote:

> At 01:18 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> Dan Browning wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:41 PM 9/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've been putting together a catalog from scratch and there are 
>>>> certain looks and functions and feels that I would like to adopt 
>>>> into my design that aren't documented.  Specifically what I'm 
>>>> working on now is the basket page and the fly page where it lists 
>>>> the part, if it's in stock and gives you the option to put in a 
>>>> quantity and "BUY NOW."  I'm interested in having my flypage and 
>>>> basket just like the demo, but copying code has proved less than 
>>>> successful.  I get an Internal Server Error.  Any ideas?  my beta 
>>>> test site is www.rchobbies.ws with a link to the store from there.  
>>>> Thanks for everyone's help in advance
>>>> Brandon Mercer
>>>
>> Well, not a whole lot.... just that there is a runtime error.  Seems 
>> like it's perl related, maybe it will mean more to you because I 
>> don't understand that much about the perl/database side of this.
>>
>> 192.168.0.3 WlgagRhn:192.168.0.2 - [25/September/2002:13:16:47 -0400] 
>> rchobbies /cgi-bin/rchobbies/pr1060.html Runtime error: Can't call 
>> method "record_exists" on an undefined value at 
>> /http/interchange/lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm line 1934.
>
>
> I think it points to the "Foundation code relies on some fields that 
> aren't in your database" theory.  Namely, the IC inventory stuff 
> relies on the "inventory" table.

So I noticed in the products directory in the foundation catalog that 
there is a inventory.txt file.... do I need one of those for my store as 
well or is it more involved than that?