A few tricky problems

[winterion]

This was originally posted in Tips and Tricks by mistake.

For that, I SINCERELY apologize. I would have deleted the thread if I could have. So sorry. >_<

 

That said, ahem:

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So, we're working along here, so far so good.

 

The owner is getting the merchant services thing worked out for our external gateway.

I'm getting the CSS file all shiny, and making sure the site looks like the rest of our non-osC pages.

 

Now, the tricky part. I've got to use some contributed add-ons.

 

First, our shipping plan is to have a base shipping cost of $5 for the first $50, and 10% beyond.

(or, if that's just not possible, $5 for every $50 of the order.)

I don't see any way for Flat Shipping to do this, so I assume there's some sort of add-on that is needed.

I'd be grateful if anyone has recommendations?

 

Second, we're using EasyPopulate to fill our database with our 50,000+ item listing, and keep online quantities in a smooth almost-match with our actual inventory, since we are too small not to share the brick-and-mortar inventory with the virtual one. Now, I've tweaked the php.ini file as much as I think humanly possible (giving it plenty of time for the timeout and memory for the SQL command, etc.) , but I still can't get the whole .csv file to import without timing out. The best I've done is split it into 10 or so 5000-item files, upload each, import each (a good half-day task).

Has anyone else worked with such a volume of items, and how did you manage the imports?

 

Third, we'd like to add the same CSS navigation bar to this site that is on our main page.

This requires inserting it somewhere, obviously.. but where? (In what php file?)

And, is there any way to frame the CSS bar up with the same sort of table box as other boxes? (Categories, What's New, Search, etc. - that is, give it a header and a little border).

 

Thank you all for all the help you've shown thus far. I'd be on the street holding up a cardboard "will flounder my way through web design for food" sign otherwise. :blush:

[winterion]

Oh, was having another problem where all inventories were showing as 1, but I fixed that (forgot to add an EOREOR to the last column of the .csv documents)