JenuwinDesign Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 Hi everyone! I'm a graphic artist and not so much a programmer, so I hope I can get some help from you guys!! I'm redesigning an existing html site and converting it to flash for a client. My client is currently hosted through Bluehost, has a shopping cart with osC, and credit card processing through authorize.net. I was hoping that someone could point me in the direction where I can find instructions on how to convert the current shopping cart setup that's with the html site so it functions with the new flash site. I'm open to any and all suggestions on how to do it. Though, I would need a step-by-step explanation. Any and all help would be super-greatly appreciated!!! Thanks so much (in advance). -Jenn
Guest Posted July 28, 2010 Posted July 28, 2010 Jenn, osCommerce is written in PHP, however you can call HTML graphics and layout within PHP. It isn't that hard if you have PHP knowledge and can code the HTML in. Without changing the code much, you can also incorporate FLASH content into the site. Flash Headers and Banners can easily be integrated with only minor code changes. Chris
JenuwinDesign Posted July 28, 2010 Author Posted July 28, 2010 Jenn, osCommerce is written in PHP, however you can call HTML graphics and layout within PHP. It isn't that hard if you have PHP knowledge and can code the HTML in. Without changing the code much, you can also incorporate FLASH content into the site. Flash Headers and Banners can easily be integrated with only minor code changes. Chris Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. I'm going to preface everything I'm about to say with a request to PLEASE pardon my complete and total ignorance and novice-ness, as I'm still learning what is possible and what is not. Unfortunately I don't have prior experience with PHP or HTML, so basically I was looking to create a shopping cart using only actionscript 3.0 that I can copy/paste and customize with the products. What would happen if I built the site in Flash- open the .html in dreamweaver- and integrated the necessary code through the html panel there? Would that work? If so, what's the easiest way that I can get instructions on doing that? Are those the instructions that are in the 114pg. manual? OR I highly doubt that this would work, but is it possible to have this set-up for example: From the flash site, a customer wants to purchase a gold ring, and clicks the "add to cart" button associated with that ring, it redirects them to the shopping cart that is currently up and running as the html site. So basically- the instance for the "add to cart" button that is unique to each item can still "talk" to the PHP shopping cart by being redirected to a certain url or something like that? Thank you, thank you, thank you again for your help. I feel like I may be in over my head, but I'm determined to learn how to do this, and it's been an emotional and mental roller coaster of "Oh! I found the answer!" to "Drats....that doesn't explain it all". Best, J
JenuwinDesign Posted July 30, 2010 Author Posted July 30, 2010 I'm assuming no to all of the above? ******* Well, for the general knowledge bank for anyone else that is looking to do something similar: Although I wasn't able figure out how to integrate the current OS system, the solution I'm going with for the time being is to simply use the PayPal systems and their "add to cart" buttons. It's nice that they have options for attributes that can be defined with different pricing (for small, medium, large -or- silver, gold, platinum options). You use a merchant account and they have a button generator. There are plenty of demos online that explain how to integrate it into your site if you just google "PayPal "Add to Cart" buttons for Flash Websites". I hope this helps someone with similar questions.
MrPhil Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 I'm assuming no to all of the above? More or less. osC is written to be a standalone application. It assumes that it owns the entire browser window, and is in charge of putting up all the content and handling all the events, etc. It assumes that it runs the product database, puts up the product description pages, and does the searching. In short, it does not play well with others. If you want to have something else put up the product displays, and just have it handle the shopping cart and checkout, you really need to look for something other than osC (or any other complete shopping cart system, for that matter). Using PayPal's "add to cart" HTML code sounds as good a solution as any. Good luck!
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