Where are you with the database for this task? Has that been setup at all?
Do you have a start?
No one will need any programming experience if you design the system
properly. What you'll need is a heavily protected administrative area of
the web site where "they" can maintain inventories as appropriate. What
you'll need is a list of every product that they sell and a page that
displays details about the item (ie: name, description, price, quantities,
etc). You can design a single PHP page that simply takes in a productId and
the code will make a call to the database to bring in all the information
associated with the product in simple form elements. When the administrator
submits the form, it'll perform a SQL update. Should be fairly
straightforward.
In terms of allowing the customer to see inventory data, this is really up
to the client. Personally, I believe it's reasonable to let the user know
whether or not the product is available, but not necessarily the specific
number of items left. But again, your client will determine the
requirements regarding this.
--
Steve - Web Developer, Small Government Patriot
http://www.freedomsmarch.com
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:38 PM, shar_63 <sharonwerner@charter.net> wrote:
> Hi Steve and everyone,
>
> I appreciate all of the advice given to date more than I can say.
>
> I'm back on this aspect of my project designing a web site for my friends
> with the hops farm. Temporarily they are willing to use the idea of
> directing sales to PayPal, but I'm sure they are going to start asking again
> about a way to allow clients to track order status, access inventory levels,
> etc. (I have no idea if this is a reasonable thing to allow customers to
> access... :) )
>
> They periodically ask me if this is something they can manage on their own
> once it is set up. Apparently one friend does have some coding/programming
> knowledge. (I'm not sure how much.) Is this something they can manage from
> their end, in terms up updating their stock inventory levels, etc?
>
> Since these are friends and I'm doing the entire project at a very LOW flat
> rate (and because I'm am learning as I go), I don't have the option of
> subbing the programming work out. Either I need to learn how to do this, or
> it isn't going to get done. Hoping I'm not taking on more than I can handle
> as I do this work as a second job!
>
> I'm working with the tutorial on w3schools to learn javascript as a
> precursor to learning PHP, etc. (Joni, I also have one of the CSS books
> you recommended and am working through that as well.)
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Sharon
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