Integrating OSC with content site

[robertdjung]

I've been searching, and perhaps I'm using the wrong words. I hope that OSC will be the answer I'm looking for in a shopping cart, but I'm having trouble wrapping my head around integrating it.

 

It seems that most installs use OSC as the entire site. I don't want to do this. I've long been building sites via Dreamweaver templates and PHP includes and having a lot of control.

 

I am launching a site that will sell furniture, and I want to have a lot of style and decorating articles.

 

Can I pull the information from the boxes like "new this week" and (especially) the categories box from OSC via a PHP include that I would integrate into my html code? Or is my only choice to have my "content" site, and then link to "STORE"?

 

Thanks

[Guest]

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1444

 

-jared

[robertdjung]

Thanks Jared, but I'm really most interested in being able to include the OSC categories box throughout my content site as part of the navigation.

 

Can this be accomplished with the STS/BTS mods, and if so which is better?

[robertdjung]

Hmm, I think I didn't understand the mod in the first place (apologies, like I said I'm in the market for OSC, I don't yet grasp it)

 

So I can use the infobox mod as an example of how to pull the content I want out, is that correct? I would need to change the example file so that it would access "catalog.php" or whatever the PHP file is that holds the catalog index information?

 

Thanks again.

[Guest]

I haven't used it yet, but the concept, as I understand it, is that you can take infoboxes (you can put LOTS of things in a infobox) and put it on other non-osCommerce pages (i.e. ones that aren't formatted with application_top.php, header.php, column_left.php, <main content page>, column_right.php, footer.php, and application_bottom.php.

 

For example, I believe that you could use this to put a "specials" box on a phpBB forum, or a "manufacturers" box in a gallery or some other page.

 

-jared