I need a little help on embedding a database on my site. I would like to build a for sale page that would bring up a list of articles for sale. When one is clicked on, it would launch a detail page on the selected item. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Hi Rick,
Depends a little on how many bikes/cars you will be selling. If it’s only a list of 20 or so it will be fine just using BV as normal. Similar to this http://www.collectors-info.com/testing/dsr.html (been playing again) But if it’s more items you need to sell, & you need a database, it maybe worth looking at one of the free shopping karts that BV has. (Soho)? These are all databases. The other advantage of a cart is you can have different areas for selling by category. IE: Bikes/Clothes/Tools/oil/chains/ & so on. Would be a better long term move.
If you use Soho I believe you will have to set up another domain on your account as I think it will only install in the route directory. But this can also be done by creating a sub domain for free. IE: http://www.shop.deepsouthrides.com & then installing it there.
Worth a look at the pro’s & cons that carts can offer, you hear a lot of people prefer one over another because of the different functions they may have.

Good luck.

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Chris,

Thanks for the quick response. That looks great and is along the lines of what I would like to do. I am not sure if the shoping cart is what I am looking for. I want to be able to do just what you did in your example and that is list bikes, cars too, for sale for others. I don't know how large it will get which is why I thought a database might be the solution.

Would soho be the solution for larger scale?

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Hi Rick,
You may need watdaflip or Navals help with this one, as a database is a script that will interact with mysql. But this would need a lot of thought on layout, plus scenarios for every action the database would take after asking it to do something. That’s why I was thinking along the cart side of things.
Have sent that page if its of any use, just for ideas.

Cheers.

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