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Challenge! - Editable Price List
This is a tricky one but im hoping someone will have some ideas.
Im converting a clients site from static code to Textpattern. They have on there a price list that covers the whole year. Its a holiday place so the prices are sesonal. At the moment they just have three tables and I update the prices manually for them once a year. Ideally they would like to be able to edit these prices from textpattern.
Since its a large table and covers all 12 months with numerous price points per month, custom feilds are out i think, since you can only have ten – I would need a lot more.
So basicly I would need some kind of month picker and a way to enter a price for each option. for example:
June
Basic: $10
Standard: $20
Deluxe: $30
King: $50
Extra Person:$15
Is there anyway to do this by using any means neccesary?
This is my first real textpattern site, so any help would much appreciated :)
Thanks.
Last edited by CodeWalker (2010-01-25 12:02:09)
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
Quick: Create an article for each month/season, putting the above info in the article body as a Textile table.
Not so quick: create an admin plugin with a separate database table and an Extensions tab for them to edit values.
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
Also quick
Create an article for each season, hard code the table in the template and use custom fields for prices. It’ll be much easier for your clients to edit.
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
Thanks for the replies. I actually made a mistake describing what I need. The data needs to look like this… with three price points for each season for standard, deluxe and super deluxe.
Standard (per week) Deluxe (per week) Super Deluxe (per week)
1st March to
5th April 225 250 290
4th April to
6th June 245 265 310
6th June to
11th July 285 325 370
11th July to
12th September 325 365 470
12th September to
10th October 285 325 370
10th October to
3rd January 245 265 310
Apologies for not being clear. Im still learning textpattern so I dnt really know if this is possible with tags, custom feilds or a existing plugin. Anyone get any more ideas? There are three of these tables for different types of accomodation so to use custom feilds I wud need a whole tonne of them. I hope this isnt beyond textpattern :)
Thanks
Last edited by CodeWalker (2010-01-25 15:37:11)
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
Should be doable with just three custom fields: Standard, Deluxe, and Super Deluxe. You could use posted and expired dates to set the date range for each article (or you could just put the dates in the title, body, or excerpt).
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
Hmm. This doesnt seem to be a terribly elegant solution. I think the way to go might be something like this, and make it a plugin. Or cheat and use flashpaper viewer to display a pdf containing the prices. That way, my client would just have to upload a single file to update the prices.
http://www.trirand.net/default.aspx
Thanks anyway guys.
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#7 2010-01-25 17:42:24
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
I’m working on a similar feature at the moment, and this unknown plugin seems to do the job well, assuming your client can handle spreadsheets and upload files to Txp ;)
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Re: Challenge! - Editable Price List
Ah! nice one Els….thats as simple as it needs to be. Thanks!
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