Can osCommerce do what I need....?

[Guest]

Hi all,

 

My Wife and I have a small photography business, and currently have a basic website where we post our photos so that customers can have a look at the shots before they order.

We are trying to find a way to set up for online ordering, but as photographers, we have certain needs that none of the ecommerce packages seem to be able to meet.

 

Idealy, we would like:

1/ to drop the finished photos into a directory and have a gallery of thumbnails generated from them on the fly with the shot number under each thumbnail.

 

2/ clicking the thumbnail would take you to a page with a larger view of the shot with the shot number undernieth, plus a list of ordering options. We would need 2 sets of radio buttons, one to select Colour/B+W/Sepia and the other to select the print size or product, 4x6/6x8/8x12/Mug/MousePad/ etc. then a QTY box for how many. They select the options and hit the order button and it creates a cart entry with those details, clears the radio buttons and QTY box so that they could order the same shot with different options if they want.

We will need to be able to sub/gallery, like a gallery for a school, then for each child, with the school gallery using the first shot from each subdir as a thumb, and clicking it takes you to that childs gallery etc.

 

3/ returning to the gallery would then somehow show that there is an order on that shot so they know which ones they ordered. Just an icon in the corner of the thumbnail would do, or ORDERED under it, or if possible, list the orders under it, like 1 x 4x6 B+W.

 

If your not quite sure what I mean about the galeries, you can have a look at our basic set-up now at www.froggyphotos.com and just imagine that onec you click the thumbnail and get the full size shot, you would also have all the ordering options on it.

 

I know this is a very different type of thing than most ecommerce packages can do, and I was hoping that osCommerce, with it's huge developer base, may have come across something similar and have a solution that can work for us.

 

Oh, and one last thing.

We will need the ability to password protect individual galleries, for the occasional paranoid perent that doesn't want THIER child's photos 'on the net'.

 

If anyone could tell me IF it can, and also HOW to do it, I would be gratefull.

 

Thanks in advance

Terry

 

p.s. I have not actually installes osCommerce yet. I have installed and uninstalled SO many others already, I thought it would be better to find out if osC can do it before installing.

[usernamenone]

Do you know how to program in PHP? If you do you can mod Oscommerce to do anything you want to. If you don't know PHP you will need to hire a Web Designer that knows PHP to custom you site whether it is Oscommerce or another shopping cart.

[Guest]

No, I don't know any PHP, I've never touched it. I was trying to avoid having to get into code to do it and was hoping that osC could handle it. We are only a "mum & dad" operation and couldn't affort to hire someone to do it, so it looks like we will just have to skip it.

 

Thanks for the response.

Terry.