custom workflow question

Thursday 01 March 2007 7:04:12 am

As much as I think it would be a neat way to do that ... I don't think it's the right way for you to approach this offhand.

Why not simply use the wrap_operator to execute your remote call to your external price information via php and return the price value for that product to the template itself (as the wrap_operator is a flexible template operator).

Though a more complete solution may surround a custom copy of the shop module solely for your custom external price products (display) but ... again I think this too is a dead end.

I think the real solution is for you to learn how to sync your eZ publish product prices and external prices within eZ publish content objects in your content tree.

I would write a simple cronjob (which can be run like a shell script) which would perform this sync.

It is both predictable, repeatable and automated ;)

hth,
<i>//kracker

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Thursday 01 March 2007 7:33:44 am

Hi there

I don't think that the wrap operator will help much. It might be possible to use it to display the price from a remote table in the template (although even then I don't not know how to do this with the wrap operator, unless kracker does not mean the same one I do).
But displaying the price in the template is not enough. You would also need to adapt the way the VAT is computed (as it needs to be based on your external price) and the way the basket works (as it fetches all prices on each basket update from the database again).

So I would recommend krackers second solution - it is fairly easy to do, reliable and if you run it at night, the run time of the script does not matter to much.
If you should need real time sync between your external table and the prices I would have a look at the ezpricetype::objectAttributeContent. Instead of fetching the data_float attribute you could fetch the price from your external db. Please note that I don't have the slightest clue whether this is feasible....

Good luck

Claudia

Thursday 01 March 2007 8:06:18 am

great ideas!
..now for my 'little problem' i forgot to mention that i have a custom basket & checkout functionality anyway, so no need for integrating prices in eZ shop functionality..(well it's all about using the amazon api). sorry for not mentioning..
i'll try to use the wrapper_operator extension by zurgutt (not the wrapper template operator!!)