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Just adding Shopping Cart?


gisprogrammer

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Just wondering if it is possible to just add the OSCommerce Shopping Cart to an HTML web site. If so is there a lot involved or pretty staight forward. How would I do this -- Wouldn't I have to add the products to the catalog?

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Just wondering if it is possible to just add the OSCommerce Shopping Cart to an HTML web site. If so is there a lot involved or pretty staight forward. How would I do this -- Wouldn't I have to add the products to the catalog?

 

You've got it backwards. You don't add the shopping cart to the HTML. You add the HTML to the shopping cart.

 

The shopping cart becomes the content management system, and handles generation of all of the HTML for the entire site. There are some exceptions to this, such as if you wanted to integrate a foums, gallery, or blogging system. But for static HTML you allways integrate it into the shopping cart, so the cart becomes the site.

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NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit.

If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.

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You've got it backwards. You don't add the shopping cart to the HTML. You add the HTML to the shopping cart.

 

The shopping cart becomes the content management system, and handles generation of all of the HTML for the entire site. There are some exceptions to this, such as if you wanted to integrate a foums, gallery, or blogging system. But for static HTML you allways integrate it into the shopping cart, so the cart becomes the site.

 

OK -- But I just want the checkout process to use oscommerce. The Product listings or the home page would just be html not generated from oscommerce php files. Is that possible..

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You would have to do what Chris said.

 

Simply change the layout of the other pages (i.e. product_info.php, etc.) to match your design.

 

If you wanted to do it your way, it would be a lot harder and require more coding. You could design your basic html layout and then call the php code needed in tables/boxes/whatever. But this would be starting almost from scratch... not worth it in my opinion.

 

-OR-

 

If you use basic html layout, the product BUY BUTTONS could link the product into the shopping cart... it would still require a bit of php coding, but shouldn't be too hard.

 

Either way your content would still be managed by the admin catalog side where you would have to add the products.

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OK -- But I just want the checkout process to use oscommerce. The Product listings or the home page would just be html not generated from oscommerce php files. Is that possible..

 

It's possible, but not practical. You'd spend 10 times as much time trying to add only a checkout to your existing HTML then you would integrating your HTML into your cart. It's not too difficult to make osC, checkout and all, look exatly like your HTML.

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NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit.

If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.

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It's possible, but not practical. You'd spend 10 times as much time trying to add only a checkout to your existing HTML then you would integrating your HTML into your cart. It's not too difficult to make osC, checkout and all, look exatly like your HTML.

 

he could probably use the template contribution aswell couldn't he?

Shelton Brown

Web/Graphic Designer

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he could probably use the template contribution aswell couldn't he?

 

You can install a template contribution, but right now, that's really not practical either, as there are numerous contribution conflict issues, and you won't be able to easily upgrade to the newest release (should one ever be released) when it comes out. Not to mention that this still means you have to pull all of the HTML into osC, even if it is only the template files.

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NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit.

If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.

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