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OsCommerce for an online photo gallery


kimaldis

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I'm looking around for an e-commerce solution for my online gallery (www.kim-aldis.co.uk). The site is Wordpress with images pulled over from an external image hoster and displayed as a series of public and private galleries throughout the site. Most of the cart solutions I've looked at involve building a list of product, something that won't work for me. What I'd like to do is have a Buy Now button appear automatically under all the shots on my site without me having to add new shots to a product list. Is that something that could be done using OsCOmmerce? I'm comfortable with a degree of coding - all the galleries and display tools on my site were written by me - but I'd rather not get into anything that's going to takes weeks to get going.

 

Thoughts, ideas, etc greatly appreciated.

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I'm looking around for an e-commerce solution for my online gallery (www.kim-aldis.co.uk). The site is Wordpress with images pulled over from an external image hoster and displayed as a series of public and private galleries throughout the site. Most of the cart solutions I've looked at involve building a list of product, something that won't work for me. What I'd like to do is have a Buy Now button appear automatically under all the shots on my site without me having to add new shots to a product list. Is that something that could be done using OsCOmmerce? I'm comfortable with a degree of coding - all the galleries and display tools on my site were written by me - but I'd rather not get into anything that's going to takes weeks to get going.

 

Thoughts, ideas, etc greatly appreciated.

 

I cannot think of another method. As you say, shopping carts require that you build a list of product. The way that carts operate is that a product id is allocated to each product. How else could the products be defined individually?

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How else could the products be defined individually?

 

By their name, by their unique key, since most galleries store images in MYSQL. I can think of many ways to do this and most stock sites work in this way. When you add images to a stock library it doesn't ask you to add the shot to a product list, it just makes it available for sale. I see very little point in doing work that the site is more than capable of handling.

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