products

I am challenged & need assistance.

Novice Drupal user, have created a taxonomy structure, vocabularies (about 5), each with 3 to 20 terms, each term with 3 to 40 subterms.

I then create products, there may be 250+ of these.

Each of the products need to be "tagged" with 3-30 sub-terms and the parent term.

The tags, together with other links such as "read more" and "add to cart" display after the item subject. If the number of tags is more than 4, the tags and other links run into each other.

I am working on a site that will be selling courses on and off-line and am in the process of designing a module to handle this. I would be interested in people's opinions on the best way to go about doing this.

The requirements for courses are as follows:

UPDATE (Jan 11): Code has been moved from the sandbox to ecommerce CVS pending full integration with the ecommerce system. I'm currently writing upgrade code to move products and the transaction records over to the new format. NOTE: If you are migrating custom solutions you will need to take special care with the upgrade. You may need to manually update the schema revision field in the system table to skip the upgrade and apply your own code instead.

Once the upgrade code is complete i'll be removing the old code from ecommerce. After this i'll send a mail to the ecommerce list to ask for testers.

You can get a copy of the alpha code by using the CVS tag DRUPAL-4-7--3. Alternatively download the tarball.

UPDATE (Oct 12): Thank you to the financial contributors. Code for all modules is now available in my sandbox. Please keep in mind that the code is still in beta and no upgrade code is available for you to upgrade your current 4.7 sites. It is not recommended that you use this code in production. Please post all issues to the Drupal issue queue and it would be very handy if you provided patches. I'd like to get hold of some anonymized production databases using the 4.7 default recurring product system. It'll help me build the upgrade code.

UPDATE (Sep 30): Still waiting on financial contributors. The ec_anon module is ready for trialling. It's available in my sandbox.

UPDATE (Sep 22): I'm excited to announce ec_recurring, ec_roles and ec_mail modules are ready for testing. There is a slight delay on ec_useracc due to some extra feature requirements on EC. That should be available very soon. Financial contributors please forward your second instalment and contact me to obtain code.

UPDATE (Sep 04): Feature Freeze in effect as of September 4, 2006. No more features will be added.
Scheduled UAT date: September 22, 2006. Scheduled completion date: September 30, 2006.

Hi everyone,

I've just finished writing up a specification document from which developers can see what is planned for E-commerce in relation to subscriptions, roles and user accounts being manipulated during checkout. These are highly sought after requirements and many people are scratching their own itch scratch scratch. My aim, though providing a specification document, is twofold. First, I want to make sure everyone knows what we're developing for 4.7 and then for 5.0 (after we do some major changes to E-Commerce core). Second, it provides a solid reference for any developer planning to write anything.