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wcw
09-04-06, 12:41 PM
The Emporium Plus Tool Kit is a labor saving library that allows you to access and manipulate variables in Merchant 5.x templates. Without the use of this module, store owners have found that they needed to create a functionally complete, component module just to do a small task, like access a system or environment variable. This module saves the need for many of those "one task" custom modules. Below is a list of current capabilities. You can review all of the features and see examples of each of these at
http://www.emporiumplus.com/go/wcw/PROD/1AAM5/1AA00223

Labor Day special. Use coupon code LABORDAY at checkout and get $7.95 off the price of this labor saving module on Sep 4, 2006.

Variable and string manipulation functions:
substring
gettoken
assign
length
glosub
padl
padr

Math functions:
math_add
math_subtract
math_multiply
math_divide
math_round

Miscellaneous:
currencyformat

Date and time functions:
set_time_zone
time_t_year
time_t_month
time_t_dayofmonth
time_t_hour
time_t_minute
time_t_second
time_t_dayofweek

Utility functions:
callurl to run an external program or file (php, mvc, htm, txt, etc)
custom to retrieve a product's custom field values
attr to retrieve a product's attribute count
cxp to load a category's products into an array
parentcat to load the parent categories into an array
subcat to load a parent's subcategories into an array
pgroup to identify all of the price groups a customer is in
agroup to identify all of the availability groups a customer is in
pgroup-p to identify all the price groups a product is in
agroup-p to identify all of the availability groups a product is in
breadcrumb to create an array of category names and codes from the current g.Category_Code up to the top level parent

chucklasker
09-05-06, 10:33 PM
Darn - another one day sale - no time to inform my clients in time for them to take advantage of it!

wcw
09-06-06, 02:08 PM
With this particular module it is best to buy early on. Its original price in May was about half what it is now. As I add new functions, the price goes up slightly. There are many who got the module at $15 and they get the free updates whenever they want them. So today's regular price is a discount from what the module will be two months from now, or a year from now.

chucklasker
09-06-06, 04:27 PM
I consider the Toolkit a must for MM5 stores that want OUI-like tokens/conditionals - which means any store wanting quality functionality. It takes a little time to figure out how it all works, but then it becomes a second-nature tool. Several times lately David and I have said, "we can use Toolkit for that." This module and Latu's Wow Wow Widgets are required installations for my MM5 projects. Thanks, Bill, for creating it. It's worth way more than you charge - way more.