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After reading a bit more on the subject of mods, I've narrowed my approach further:
Ideally, I would like to add a new option to the "Add new product" form in the admin area. This would be implemented in the form of radio buttons for "Sold by weight" "Sold by length" and "Sold by item". "Sold by item" would be the default and choosing it would allow x-cart to add the product as it normally does. Accompanying the other two choices would be a menu allowing the admin to select a unit measurement such as "feet" "yards" or "pounds" etc.
When one of these new options is used, a handfull of alternate language variables for the product info templates will have to be used (and some minor changes to the templates made as well) to make the "details" reflect the changes. ie, "Quantity available" would have to be "Length available" and "per foot" would be inserted after the price...
Even I can see that this mod is a pretty major job. What i would like to know is just how hard will this be? I am operating on a pretty tight budget so I can't afford to hire someone to do it Б─⌠ but I am willing to invest a lot of time to learn to do it myself. If there is an existing mod like this for sale at a decent price, though, I would certainly buy it!
Any / all advice is welcomed. It would be awesome if someone could tell me what files to examine or give me some pointers regarding the ordering system. I just don't know where to start!
Thanks,
Jordan
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