I probably have 3000 items and sub-items, but have spent 9 hours building an index page for 100 products, that I had to break into 4 pages in Drupal because the system choked on the 1000+ lines of code needed to do what I wanted to do.  I do not expect to have to refresh the whole menagerie every day or week, but it is awful that it takes this long to do this.  I am having to work outside of the ubercart system because of the second part of the issue, that arbitrary instructions field that I need.  Paypal cart lets me do this, however it loses all the ec features of ecommerce. 

Thanks for your help

Wolf



Message: 4
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:49:19 +0100
From: "FGM" <fgm@osinet.fr>
Subject: Re: [development] ecommerce things
To: <development@drupal.org>
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It really depends on what you call "bulk". I have such a site with over 100k
SKUs, updated weekly, and creating/deleting the whole node set every week is
not something you want to do. OTOH, if you're in the 1k SKUs, this is still
reasonable.

The key concept for such volume use, though, appears to be lazy node
creation (only create product nodes when you actually want a transaction
involving them). This has been discussed recently (maybe it was one some
planet blog ?), and others pointed to similar mechanisms on their own
project. The problem is that ecommerce (and AFAIK, ubercart) have no support
for such mechanisms, only being able to work on product nodes, not create
nodes on the fly from non-drupal data.

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