Is it possible to incorporate a blog or "comments" section into an oscommerce site?

[pastelblack]

I'm new to oscommerce. I'm working on a site where proceeds go to various charities, and I need a page for each charity where customers would be redirected to after a purchase, so that they can leave comments for that charity. So there would ideally be a page for each charity, with a section at the bottom for buyer/donor comments. These comments would need to be moderated by the site admin before being posted.

 

Is there an add-on that could allow public comments on non-product pages? Or would I need to link to an external blog? Any other ideas?

 

Thanks for the help!!!

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Kirsten,

 

You can easily create a page for the various charities to display customer testimonials (comments). However the uploading of the comments is more difficult. I suppose you could modify Customer Testimonials and manually add the comments to the individual charity pages.

 

Customer Testimonials can be found here:

 

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5477

 

 

Chris

[♥FWR Media]

Any reason why you couldn't just reword the standard order comments so that users new they were making a "charity comment" .. this way you'd just need to capture the charity and redirect to a charity specific page.

[pastelblack]

You can easily create a page for the various charities to display customer testimonials (comments). However the uploading of the comments is more difficult. I suppose you could modify Customer Testimonials and manually add the comments to the individual charity pages.

 

Thanks Chris! That's an idea... although I'm wondering if that might be a few too many steps for the admin who is going to be managing the site. :-/ She's reasonably tech savvy, but I think she's looking for something a little more streamlined/simple.

 

 

Any reason why you couldn't just reword the standard order comments so that users new they were making a "charity comment" .. this way you'd just need to capture the charity and redirect to a charity specific page.

 

Pardon my lack of programming knowledge (I'm new to php...hoping I'm not biting off more than I can chew), but would you mind explaining in a bit more detail?

[♥FWR Media]

Pardon my lack of programming knowledge (I'm new to php...hoping I'm not biting off more than I can chew), but would you mind explaining in a bit more detail?

osCommece as standard has a text area where you can add comments to an order, I just thought after quickly reading your post that if the wording was correct and the customers were ALL charity customers that this could perform the function of charity comments.

 

Failing this you will have to enter the world of coding to modify or create a satisfactory comment input/retrieval system.

Edited May 14, 2010 by FWR Media

[pastelblack]

Failing this you will have to enter the world of coding to modify or create a satisfactory comment input/retrieval system.

 

Gotcha...yeah, I may not be able to avoid programming on this. Thanks for the help!