Roadmap for web site look-and-feel?

[Guest]

Hi,

 

I am trying to integate OSCommerce with a display web site for the first time.

 

I am familiar with Linux, PHP, Apache, and mysql. I installed and configured OSCommerce on our web server without problems.

 

The display part of the web site has already been templated in HTML with a particular look-and-feel. I need to retain this look-and-feel throughout the entire purchase pathway of the site.

 

Could someone provide a basic roadmap on areas that I need to research/learn in order to integrate OSCommerce with the same look-and-feel as the current website? I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks.

[Guest]

No replies - anybody out there? This seems like a simple question - should I be posting to another forum?

 

Hi,

 

I am trying to integate OSCommerce with a display web site for the first time.

 

I am familiar with Linux, PHP, Apache, and mysql. I installed and configured OSCommerce on our web server without problems.

 

The display part of the web site has already been templated in HTML with a particular look-and-feel. I need to retain this look-and-feel throughout the entire purchase pathway of the site.

 

Could someone provide a basic roadmap on areas that I need to research/learn in order to integrate OSCommerce with the same look-and-feel as the current website? I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks.

[blissedgirl]

Hi,

 

I am trying to integate OSCommerce with a display web site for the first time.

 

I am familiar with Linux, PHP, Apache, and mysql. I installed and configured OSCommerce on our web server without problems.

 

The display part of the web site has already been templated in HTML with a particular look-and-feel. I need to retain this look-and-feel throughout the entire purchase pathway of the site.

 

Could someone provide a basic roadmap on areas that I need to research/learn in order to integrate OSCommerce with the same look-and-feel as the current website? I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks.

 

If you get anywhere with this, please be sure to post it! I and many others I've seen on the threads, have been looking for such information and haven't quite got a definitive guide for this. Sorry that I don't have the answer, I see you haven't gotten a helpful reply yet but hopefully someone out there who knows how to do this will see your post and offer up some suggestions! There are some very bright individuals on this message board.

 

I've read through the "Basics for Design" thread numerous times but still don't have a grasp of the most logical way to merge or integrate an html site with the cart. I've seen it done, I've heard others say it can be done - but I haven't seen yet whether it can be described in a nutshell or if it's something one must rebuild piece by piece etc. If I stumble across any eurekas!, I'll let you know!! :lol:

[jasonabc]

OSC pages are rendered by pulling in various includes (header, footer, boxes here and there etc etc) into it's root level pages. To integrate a design you just have to do some reverse engineering (for example - see what code the header.php file is responsible for outputting in the browser). You just do this by looking at the HTML in the header file and then viewing source. Once you know this you can modify it so it displays the top bit of your design (instead of the top bit of the stock OSC install).

 

This is then applied to other stuff. Take a look and see what files are being included and from that, what code they generate. Once you know that - modify that code to make it do what you want.

[Guest]

Thanks for the replies! After not getting any replies for so long, I decided to start hacking the OSC code myself, along with the STS4 code. I am using a variety of programming tools to investigate how it works. The end result will hopefully be the integration of our design into the OS Commerce hybrid, but I'll probably have to get help from someone else.

 

It's a lot of work, but I am documenting all of my procedures at this point, so maybe I'll put together a guide if I get anywhere on it... :)