Admin functionality
Submitted by daviddoig on Sat, 2006-03-04 13:18.Price Tapestry
Was just wondering if there was any functionality that will be introduced to control full admin features from the admin pages.
1. Delete feeds from directory
2. Upload feeds directly to the feeds directory
3. Delete/Edit direct products display (ie: show just like it would if live site, and allow functions to delete product line or edit as needed.)
Just some that come to mind at the moment. Images are also something that could maybe looked into, Are we allowed to catch these images on the server or is this a big NO NO.
Thanks
Thanks David,
This is all good. Enjoying the product already and all the new things to come will be very handy too.
Regards
Hi David,
Following release of the next "major" version of Price Tapestry, the plan is to offer additional components that require more complex server configuration as optional "plugins".
One such plugin will cover 1 & 2; as this requires setting up of permissions on the server so that the PHP process has access to the feeds directory (it will basically be a version of this script with delete functionality included).
Product editing is technically straight forward; although i'm not sure where this positions the scope of the product as it is intended that users will be regularly updating their database with fresh feeds. Any edits made to product records would be overwritten after each import. It would be straight forward to develop this as an optional plugin.
I have no idea with regards to the "no no" or otherwise of image caching! In some respects, and image is just data; so if a merchant is making images available to you I don't really see them having any complaints if you cache the images; which is, after all, analogous to storing their product information in the database.