[ic] 5.3.1 - Out of stock products

Mike Heins mike at perusion.com
Sat Oct 22 10:29:36 EDT 2005


Quoting Andreas Grau (agrau at esquat.com):
> Out of stock items can be preordered, ie. put into the cart using a 
> quantity of zero (enforced). Zero quantity items are, however, 
> completely removed from the cart later, leaving no trace of preordered 
> items.
> 
> I am tempted to suggest that there should be no automatic removal for 
> zero quantities, but only for qty < 0. This would leave it open to the 
> catalog to mark and handle preorders.
> 
> lib/Vend/Cart.pm may introduce a pack()-sub to kick zero quantities out 
> of the cart if needed. And a catalog.cfg compatibility flag may change 
> toss_cart() to old behaviour as well.

It would seem to make more sense to me to put the items in a separate cart
with a non-zero quantity. After all, you don't order zero of something...

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Mike Heins
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