Product database
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- Nightshade
My client requires an online product database of around 2000 products, which are user searchable by various criteria via the website frontend. The client also requires a CMS of some sort to add/edit/manage these products.
Does anyone know of any off-the-shelf solutions which could help?
- ********0
Are you looking for shopping-cart software or just a db of products? It's an easy build from the ground-up if it's just products but no cart functionality.
- Nightshade0
Just a searchable database of products, no shopping cart. I know mysql/php and could probably build a bespoke solution from scratch, but there must be a pre-made solution out there?
- mikotondria30
Honestly if you're fluent you'd be best off just knocking something together yourself - you'd know exactly what functionality you needed, how you'd implemented it and be up and running quicker than trying to squeeze what you wanted out of something that you'd spend a good chunk of time just getting to know, is my 2c..
- vaxorcist0
is it a simple one-table Excel file? you can have them export it as XML from Excel, and write a one page PHP script... that way the client can continue to use Excel, rather than a CMS....
- If it grows you'll have to dump it into MySQL anyway so you may as well start with a proper db.********
- If it grows you'll have to dump it into MySQL anyway so you may as well start with a proper db.
- section_0140
agreed. do it proper from the begining. Also, prepare user input and mysql_real_escape_string everything.
- Nightshade0
Thanks for the advice- looks like i'll be coding my own system for it then. I guess even if there was a pre-made solution i'd spend as much time tweaking it to do what I want, as it would take a build a bespoke solution.