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I will write a basic shopping system for you. I need that too - but I want it simple and easy and based on coming frontend users stuff.

Oliver

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cyrano wrote:Hi Isac,

have a look at http://www.telekorn.de , a nice script - photokorn, which offers a easy-setup for a nice looking gallery - I'll have my gallery in some days online, so then you can have a look to it.

it's not free, but offers a wide variety of functions and have an excellent support.
regards cyrano

something is coming... from Oliver.

oliver, YOU are the best.

Hi Isac,

yep i know about a liitle, but also with shopping cart and licencing functions, online-clearing?

Just a bit kidding.

of course with this morsel of information you WILL encourage a feeding frenzy.

WARNING: I will eat a LOT...

First course: what king of functions would you invisage it having Oliver?

• shopping cart?
• online purchase?
• charge card prossecing?
• catalogue?
• specials list?
• individual customer discounting ?
• postage and packing costs?
• online download (after purchase)?
• statistics of cutsomer & product purchasing?

i know you wnat to keep it simple so not all of these are expected, only hoped for (on day)

cyrano wrote:Hi Isac,

yep i know about a liitle, but also with shopping cart and licencing functions, online-clearing?

Just a bit kidding.

Im integrating now a gallery script (4images) with shopping module (4images_shop.zip ) and I think it as same functions as telekorn. The only problem I found in both, is that will require You to manage all requests manually and I know its not perfect solution. There is another mod to sell photos, BitPass Micropayment System, this is totaly automatic, but only works with BitPass, soo problably we will loose another type off clients.

Read more about BitPass mod here :

http://www.4homepages.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10557

In my case, Im traying to sell pictures like this, soo I think only one person on photo should be interested and I will handled all request (low trafic) very well...



I hope Oliver solution fill my needs too

Hi Isac,

yes that s right with manual handle of orders, but there is still something in developement

I work close to development there and made some suggestions and we'll have soon a better order handling.

stay tuned.

Just read this thread...since I am venturing into e-commerce and just browsing at the moment.

I downloaded Oscommerce (2.2), did a quick install..and found it to not be a true template-based system (and no default admin security!) I plopped together a htaccess solution for the time being....and proceeded.

I know others who have spent time on modifying have come up with great results...But any 'modifiable' template system was not strictly speaking designed into OS.

Perhaps the next release will support it, as pSouper has mentioned. OsCommerce does have tons of mods..so with a little patience it can be modified...yet I think Oliver's template system is second to none..so I, along with others in the gallery, await embedding core shopping cart functionality into Wcms.

I will say there are a few Oscommerce solutions out there that are nice, and in fact have a clean look and feel that has informed OliverG's thinking from the beginning.

http://www.wickedsunglasses.com

Will watch this thread.....and yes I am a newbie to e-commerce...so don't flame me

All best,
jsw_nz(john)

Hello

I thought I would add my experience to this discussion.

I have worked osCommerce for about fourteen months and now have four e-comm sites installed. Out of the box, it is quite good but the real power lies in the more than 2,000 contributions the user community has made to it.

The version I currently use has more than 100 modifications. Half are from the user community. The other half are my own. The lack of documentation makes it a bit of a challenge to to get into the code, but once you get used to it, it is not particularly difficult.

The default version does not have a template system. However, there are two contribs that more than make up for it: S(imple) T(emplate) S(ystem) and Box Controller which allows you to turn on or off the columns and content boxes within the columns. With these two contribs, you have extraordinary control over the page layout and content parts.

Finally, the osCommerce developers are building a template system for the next default version (milestone 3).

I came to phpwcms looking for three things: a cms that wasn't structured as a portal (there is a zillion of those); could serve as a front end to osCommerce; and, could readily incorporate third party apps. 'phpwcms' answers these needs. There are other cms systems that could do the job but I stayed because of the community. Both here and in osCommerce, the community is active, helpful and good natured.

For those who are interested, it is my intent to use phpwcms together with osCommerce in the way some one suggested:
http://www.myphpwcms site/my_info_content/osc_shop/

One final observation. I need the ability to add third party apps or mini apps to phpwcms. The contribs/mods here have shown the way - Mod News, Mod Company, sitemap and others. Rather than reinventing the wheels that others have already created, I suggest that phpwcms enhance the ability to plugin other apps/mini apps to phpwcms.

I have recently added a 'random quote' to my sandbox phpwcms site. I picked up a random quote 'mini app' from hotscripts and began modifying it for phpwcms. A bit of a chore due to 'global name space' issues and I still do not have the admin backend done. But it works. There will be others such as 'Live Support', Tell-a-friend', help desk, faq, download manager (the next one on the list for me), etc. I will also be adding full apps such as a e-comm, gallery, blog private or public forum, project management and so on as may be required by the client.

The point to all of this is that , for my purposes, I would like see phpwcms enhance its ability to add third party apps such as osCommerce. Documentation on the 'modules' section would be a help. So too would the ability to set the value of session name so the session name in phpwcms can be configured to match that of the add on app for visitor tracking. Similarly, am I unaware of any place that allows phpwcms to readily alter the method of storing session info - between a cookie or in a table. This sort of thing (and others) would certainly make plugging in third party apps much easier.

In short, let someone else be really good at writing a forum or commerce or random quote app/mini app. Let phpwcms be really good at plugging them in to a cms.

javascript:emoticon(':oops:')Oops. Didn't realize I was going on this long. Apologies.

@jsw_nz

hi - the website http://www.wickedsunglasses.com is very nice!

would be great, if you could tell, which contribs you have used?
..especially for that random pics.

kindies

http://www.phpeppershop.com
http://www.xt-commerce.com

A recent request from a client has prompted this additional posting. His company needs a catalog but not a shopping cart. that is, the company builds and markets big ticket heavy machinery. They want a catalog displaying their products and accessories but do not want prices. And at the cost of the equipment, there isn't a credit card on the planet that could take the hit anyway.

I have searched for a non-shopping cart catalog system in all the usual placed and found only one - PodLer at sourceforge. Unfortunately, it utilizes the Smarty template system. Not criticizing Smarty but phpwcms meets the templating requirements very nicely.

So, two questions:
- when the shopping cart system is being developed, would you consider incorporating an 'on-off' switch for the cart side of things so that in the off position it could serve as a catalog only;
- in the meatime, does anyone know of a good catalog that can use put into use immediately?

Thanks

Hi,


look at this thread. Perhaps quick.cart can do what you want...

http://www.phpwcms.de/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=


Joachim

Thanks for the suggestion. I have taken a look a a number of 'mini cart' systems and qucik cart would be the easiest to deconstruct so that it would meet my needs.

However, I was hoping that I had missed an actual catalog app - perhaps on one of the non-english sites (my German sucks even worse than my French).