Plugging osCommerce Shopping Cart into existing website design.

[therocks]

Hello, I'm not new to php but definitely new to osCommerce. I did a few searches and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for... I am setting up an OSC shopping cart for a client and I need to "plug the shopping cart" into the existing design. I can provide links to better explain what I'm trying to do... I'm sure this has been attempted before, but I'm lost right now... can anyone point me in the right direction??

 

 

Thanks :)

[therocks]

anyone??

[Guest]

Fairly simple. Osc design is pretty much (at least 90% anyway) from five files:

stylesheet.css

includes/header.php

includes/footer.php

includes/column_right.php

includes/column_left.php

 

Those 5 files are referenced on every single page, and tweaking those should get your design ported pretty easily. Take a look in the knowledge base (link from bar at top of this page).

 

Alternatively, there are template mods which you may find easier to work with - search contributions for STS or BTS

 

Hope that helps.

[jlr1001]

I'm sure you've figured this out by now... (or I hope so at least). But could you explain what you meant by '"plug the shopping cart" into the existing design'?

 

This could mean one of two things....

 

1) Make OSC look like its part of your main site by having its template reflect your other one...

2) Integrate it into your current site, so that people can add products to the cart directly from your main pages rather than going into OSC's product page...

 

Which did you mean?

 

 

 

-jlr1001

 

Hello, I'm not new to php but definitely new to osCommerce. I did a few searches and couldn't find exactly what I was looking for... I am setting up an OSC shopping cart for a client and I need to "plug the shopping cart" into the existing design. I can provide links to better explain what I'm trying to do... I'm sure this has been attempted before, but I'm lost right now... can anyone point me in the right direction??

Thanks :)