php to Zen string and data transfer to add new unique products to cart after customiz

Hey All,

Does Zen have support for php POST importing? ie: a new product is generated as the result of a web-form, ie lettering or an infinitely customizable object, is resolved into three for four parameters - cost/data computed in the php script. The whole result is then passed into Zen for customer reg. and checkout.

Seeing as Zen is database driven this would require an on-the-fly generation of products and dynamic updates?

Cheers

Zen Cart supports attributes and attribute types that allow customers to supply text based data.

Is that what you require.

Sounds like it may be on the right track, for a customer to fill in data in a webform and then that data to be passed into Zen as a new product, or a function of a generic product with a new variation.

One of the hundred examples: Sign writing. Charged per letter. So the user enters the text for the sign in a from text box (the element). php calculates how many letters there are, multiplies by the cost/letter and then passes both the total cost and exact text string into Zen as a new product/variation of a product. The user can then continue to generate signs and add to the shopping cart. When complete, the number of signs can be processed with the exact text and cost on the reciept.

pseudo:

function(form element);
{
echo $Len = letters&numbersIn(element);
}

import math;
$Cost = $Len * factor;

% POST form as hidden

%In Zen
echo $TotalCost = $Post['Cost'];
echo $text_string = $Post['element'];

%Here ZEN would need to generate a product, or modify an existing product to recieve the TotalCost and text_string and put through the payment.

Cheers,

That function is already built in ....
in the attributes controller you can price by word or price by letter.....

Thanks guys, when you know what your looking for...

Cheers