some advice needed please

Hey Jason

Am putting together a very simple ecommerce pack for a client and they have the following 'products': http://prntscr.com/5exld8

Just wondering what your advice would be on the 'best' way to structure the database for this type of structure. Would it be best to have 3 tables for the relevant options ? Or would there be a better way?

thanks

Jamie

I Would use one table:

+----------------------------|-----------|-----------|--------+
| Name                       | BasePrice | SingleInc | DblInc |
+----------------------------|-----------|-----------|--------+
| Varilux / 1 Day 13 delgate | 109       | 129       | 149    |
+----------------------------|-----------|-----------|--------+

in the cart object create columns for the SinglePriceInc and DblPriceInc.

In the add to cart button create a drop down for the Independents Day / Single Room / Double Room options, and bind the SinglePriceInc and DblPriceInc columns to the corresponding columns in the database, bind the Price column to the base price

and create a calculation to change the price based on the selection for example if the option columns is named option and the values are:
1 Day
Single Room
Double Room

Calcualtion:
TruePrice
(abs([option] == '1 Day')?[Price]:0) + (abs([option] == 'Single Room')?[Price] + [SinglePriceInc]:0) + (abs([option] == 'Double Room')?[Price] + [DblPriceInc]:0)

and in the cart display use the true price calculation in place of price, you' also need to update the total price calculation.

Sorry am a little confused- yeah I know, not hard!

there are 3 'products' (which need to be editable by the client):

Varilux /iDay 13 Delegate
All Other Delegates
Practice Team (3 People)

Each product has got 3 options (again, need to be editable by the client)
iDay only
iDay/iNight Single
iDay/iNight Double

Each of those 'products' has got 3 possible prices based on whether its full price or one of the 2 early bird prices (dates need to be editable by the client)

Due to the need to be able to edit and add/remove product, option and price and choose any combination, that setting up 3 tables.


ProductItems (for the Varilux /iDay 13 Delegate, All Other Delegates, Practice Team side of things)
ProductOptions (for the iDay only,iDay/iNight Single, iDay/iNight Double side of things)
CombineProduct to pull the 2 above together (with dynamic drop downs) and including the price as a text input...

How would I achieve that with a 1 table version?

look at my example above.

it shows one product, you can add additional products

the idea is that the product has the base price, then the incremental price for the single or double option.

using the calculation example i gave you can alter the price based on the selection.

of course, if you are more comfortable with using three tables for this: by all means, go ahead. you asked for alternatives though, and this is an alternative.

I did ask for an alternative, just trying to understand it, thats all.

So with your your example, how does the 3 different price points work (full price, early bird 1 and early bird 3)?

each date is a separate product

I'm looking at your screen shot as a separate product for each line item, so basically 9 products, 3 for each date section.

ah ok i see

so, how would the various different options be editable dropdowns?