Need technical advice

[temple]

I have a custom-made site – product catalogue. It includes description and assembly scheme as well as the picture of the final product. The programmer I worked with before disappeared, and I need to add a feature for emailing catalogue and product specification.

Can anyone advise me how to do it without serious changes in the site structure? (I was told that it is usually a quite complex work).

[Boogle]

I would run it through a webservice by sending the itemID to the webservice and then getting this webservice to pull out the correct specifications of the item and placing it into an HTML email and sending it via smtp.

I think in ASP.NET i can easily show you how to do this. What have you been using to make the site?

Boog's

[temple]

Both catalogue and Product page - are static html

[Boogle]

OK so ideally you need to create a database with your products in and then set a link on each product page with a querystring, i.e. www.mysite.com/mywebservice.ashx?prodcode=1

when you send this to the service, the service realises you want to mail details about the product with productCode=1. It will find it and send it.

now that is easier said than done but other than doing a start from scratch it's all your faced with because you have static content.

The other option is to pre-create the HTML emails for each product and save them and then just tell the webservice to send the appropriate pre-created HTML email depending on what product the queryString is informing it with.

Get it?

Boog's.