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[kalukee]

Hi all

 

I'm trying to setup oscommerce and i am not interested in the catalog aspect at all. All I am after is the shopping cart processes, billing, add item delete item etc. Would it be more work than its worth to use oscommerce or should i look for something else.

 

Thanks

PS - I know html and i am new to php

[mattice]

It depends on what you mean by 'shoppingcart' vs 'catalog'?

 

osCommerce is a pretty advanced e-com solution and to strip out all functionality to just end up with a working barebone cart would basically mean rewriting the lot. Everything is built around the mySQL database...

 

You might be better of with a more basic cart.

Quite a few can be found at www.hotscripts.com.

 

On the other hand if you just want less features (as in boxes) you can remove that quite easily... and you'll have a great e-commerce solution!

 

Regards,

Mattice

[Aodhan]

Hi all

 

I'm trying to setup oscommerce and i am not interested in the catalog aspect at all. All I am after is the shopping cart processes, billing, add item delete item etc. Would it be more work than its worth to use oscommerce or should i look for something else.  

 

Thanks

PS - I know html and i am new to php

 

Just curious...without a catalog, how will customers know what to purchase?

 

Aodhan

[kalukee]

The problem is incorporating my website into the catalog. I'm designing a topographical database for Canada, and the design of oscommerce is too restictive for what I want. At the risk of insulting the designers its too much of a cookie cutter website and it wont work for me.

[Jan0815]

If you are new to PHP it will take a lot of effort. If you only want the cart routines to work with - they will be pure PHP.

 

But nevertheless - everything is possible. Take a look at how the cart object works, how it gets filled, how it interacts with the order_total objects, payment and shipping objects etc. Also examine how the database structure serves teh cart and notice how the session handling routines do their job.

 

Once you get the idea you can start reusing our code for your needs. But IMHO you should be an PHP-expert to get the job done.

 

As this will mean a major modification (I would say a major deconstruction ;-) you should also expect to be left alone most of the time as the community here works with osCommerce in a slightly different way.

 

To make it short: I think you should better look here:

 

http://www.devarticles.com/art/1/132

 

Or here:

 

http://www.phpbuilder.net/columns/evert20000816.php3

 

Or ask google :-)