[Zope] e-tailer & Mailhost

[J. Michael Mc Kay]

I'm have some difficuties with e-tailer and setting up mailhost.  Where is
the best location for mailhost.
I have a directory structure like this:

/a_la_cart/mailhost
/a_la_cart/e-tailer

Mailhost is in the a_la_cart directory with the e-tailer account.  In "order
management", when I enter the address to recieve orders, submit it, the
management area does not update but errs out instead.

I am trying to set-up multiple e-tailers and have them all send mail from
each e-tailer.

thanks.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Kerr" <terry@adroit.net>
To: "Graham Chiu" <anon_emouse@hotmail.com>; <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2000 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] E-Commerce solution using Python and Zope.


> Graham Chiu wrote:
>
> > >
> > >these problems were fixed...it was only a problem initially caused by
an
> > >upgrade.
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > A couple of other things.  On your front page, the non-hilighted 'demo'
> > image is broken.  If you go to www.adroit.com there are more broken
images.
> > You may not be seeing them if they're in your cache.
>
> > Also, your shopping cart is still broken.
> >
> > Try this
> >
> > 1. select an image and place into cart.
> > 2. go to check out
> > 3. don't enter any details and click on buy
> > 4. It then asks for credit card details - when it shouldn't really allow
you
> > this far
> > 5. Then just keep backing out and the cart empties out :-(
> >
> > I downloaded the latest checkout but haven't had to a chance to see
where
> > the bug is.
> >
>
> Ok...I found the bug that allows you to buy without entering any details
I can
> fix it.
>
> Yes, after you have entered the checkout, you cannot back out.  This was
just
> overlooked...it will be fixed.
>
> >
> > Otherwise it looks quite good, though I would prefer a solution that
uses a
> > relational database to save data. ( My own Zope Ecommerce site has about
> > 24,000 items which would be a bit painful to add items using a through
the
> > web interface. )
> >
>
> We didn't use a relational database because it is way too is too complex
for
> the intended use of the product.  The idea behind e-tailer was to have an
> ecommerce product which is extremely simple and quick to setup.   Setting
up a
> shop is as simple as adding an e-tailer from the manage screen of a
folder.  It
> takes less that 5 minutes to have the shop fully setup and ready to go and
> accepting secure credit information.  I don't know of any other ecommerce
> products that are that easy to setup.   Besides, there are no easy ways to
> manipulate an SQL backend like we do with the e-tailer catalog.  Things
like
> adding and remove product properties, and giving properties to categories
that
> all the products within that category will aquire, and having products and
> categories aquiring template styles, etc.  This is all very difficult if
not
> impossible to acheive with a flat relational database.
>
> We never intended for e-tailer to hold 24000 items!  Although i dont see
any
> problem with this.  We have done some tests with over 50000 cataloged
items in
> a zodb and searching was fine.  I agree that adding 24000 items through a
web
> interface would be painful ;-)  We need to create a tool that can upload
items
> from other storages so that this kind of process can be speed up.
>
> Having said all that, we are looking at possibly integrating a backend
> relational database.
>
> Any more feedback is greatly appreciated! ;-)
>
> terry
>
>
> >
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