Hello All!

[ryancox88]

Hey everyone, My name is Ryan. I am completely new to Os Commerce and am trying to learn all I can about it. I have been playing with it in WAMMP, but i have been kind of lost in what all os commerce can do because from what I can tell it is set up for a person who has a large quantity of categories and items. Which is great, but I am trying to open a relatively small business with a very simple website. I have a background in HTML coding, but am by no means a master, but I understand it enough to be able to figure out how to get my site to where I want it to be.

 

So I basically have the skeleton of the site. It is very basic, it was a template I've had since high school HTML class that I did some modifying to. I will attach a photo below.

 

 

 

Now, I am wondering (if this is even possible) if I can take my whole store, and fit it into a frame inside of that website. All I really want OSCommerce to do is be there to list my products, be able to utilize the shopping cart, check customers out, and possibly sign them up as a member to the site to receive e-mails for coupons and things.

 

I'm not asking for someone to come in and custom make me a template, I'm simply asking if you guys can send me in the correct direction of the knowledge I need to do this.

 

I also ask for input on what my current plan is, if you guys think I would be better of just using the oscommerce software without the types of modifications I suggested. I don't know what i can and can't do with OS commerce, so that kind of limits my creativity with it. Please let me know if you have any ideas as to what you think I should do.

 

Thanks in advance everyone!

 

Ryan

 

PS: The products I sell are called bow slings. They are a piece of archery equipment that helps the shooter keep a firm hold of the bow after the shot. I weave them out of paracord, and I was wondering, I have 32 different colors, and the slings can have up to four different colors. How do I make those options at add to cart?

[multimixer]

Hi, welcome to osCommerce

 

I would recommend you to use STS (Simple Template System), thats an addon, that you can get in the addon area. Having this, you will be able to design your store with plain html

 

As for other functionalitiew you need, like coupons ec, it'a all possible, you just need to find the addon you need and install it according to instructions. I recommend you to search the forum first because there are always many different solutions doing the same thing.

 

Regarding options, yes, possible, there is an addon called "option types v2" that will do what you need

 

If you are going to use STS, hen instal this first. There is also an other system called BTS, that I don't know personally. Last option is to alter the php files themselves, not a hard job looking at the picture you have

[ryancox88]

No, it really is a very rudimentary website, I just need something functional. But I want it to be easy to navigate for all customers. I want to make it user-friendly for any one who isn't extremely computer literate. Do you know of any good resources for learning how to edit PHP files, I've seen a few, just haven't taken the time to soak them in. Would you recommend doing that instead of installing STS? Also, I need to install the options add-on and then STS if I decide to go that route correct? Thanks for the info man!

[ryancox88]

sorry to be a pain, but I just had another thought, which version is more supported? I thought I saw beta on the V3, would it be wiser and more stable to stick with V2?

[multimixer]

Yes, you stick with v2, v3 is still in development stage

 

If you go for sts, then it's better to install it first of all

 

You can always do your trials on a test store and then decide exactly what you want

 

As for ressources, the best I know is this forum here, just learn to search it

[ryancox88]

About to give this a real shot adding the add-ons and stuff. Hope I'm smarter than I think I am. I'm sure I'll be back shortly! hahhah

[ryancox88]

Okay, I'm here with my first problem, I have done a search but couldn't find a solution I could understand. I believe it was something about the permissions causing this error. I copied all of the files STS installation instructions told me about, and went back to my admin panel and this is what happened. I read somewhere that this was a permissions problem? I thought since I was running OScommerce on XAMPP locally this wouldn't be that big of a problem.

 

 

Warning: require(includes/classes/navigation_history.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\catalog\admin\includes\application_top.php on line 128

 

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/classes/navigation_history.php' (include_path='.;\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\catalog\admin\includes\application_top.php on line 128

 

 

 

 

Thanks in Advance!

[bkellum]

Okay, I'm here with my first problem, I have done a search but couldn't find a solution I could understand. I believe it was something about the permissions causing this error. I copied all of the files STS installation instructions told me about, and went back to my admin panel and this is what happened. I read somewhere that this was a permissions problem? I thought since I was running OScommerce on XAMPP locally this wouldn't be that big of a problem.

 

 

Warning: require(includes/classes/navigation_history.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\xampp\htdocs\catalog\admin\includes\application_top.php on line 128

 

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'includes/classes/navigation_history.php' (include_path='.;\xampp\php\PEAR') in C:\xampp\htdocs\catalog\admin\includes\application_top.php on line 128

 

 

 

 

Thanks in Advance!

 

You've accidentally copied the /catalog/includes/application_top.php into the admin section.

[ryancox88]

Wow :-" Pretending like it never happened.

 

Thanks man!