OffTheDeepEnd.com Posted October 8, 2005 Posted October 8, 2005 I have done a lot of research and have taken a look at the contributions but have not seen anywhere as to how I can customize OSCommerce as to what I want to do. I have 4 domains, all with different products... www.cheesylights.com www.flamingomania.com www.islandmadness.com www.portroyaltradingco.com They all have a different theme but they share one cart. We use a form action post cart, called americart, that allows the customers to browse our sites and have one shopping cart. All the orders are fulfilled out of the same warehouse and having more than one cart incoveniences the customer. Have I missed the contribution that enables this or is there something that I can change easily in the cart? I thought about placing four different "catalog" directories on the site and telling it to use one database. Is that a possibility? I tried everything suggested on the last post. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly apreciated.
niknakgroup Posted October 8, 2005 Posted October 8, 2005 Simplest way would be to make ONE site with every product, but differentiate the products for each of your four stores into different categories. Then copy all your osc files onto each new domain, but limit the categories which show on each domain. I did this by adding a new table called "categories to products" and referring to this table on each of the sub-stores. Your main site then has a single admin panel for every site, and each of your domains can be as individual as you like. For an example of this in action, take a look at www.niknakgroup.com, www.silverniknaks.com (limited to only silver products) and www.uk-body-jewellery.co.uk (dont laugh, still under development, but body jewellery only products). All 3 sites use same database and have one control panel at niknakgroup.com, but look and act completely differently. Hope that gives you a good starting point. Please note - if I have suggested a contrib above, it doesnt mean it will work! Most of the contribs are not ones I've used, but may be useful for your particular problem.... Have you tried a refined search? Chances are your problem has already been dealt with elsewhere on the forums..... if (stumped == true) { return(square_one($start_over) } else { $random_query = tep_fetch_answer($forum_query) }
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