Would You Use osCommerce for this?

[patmoses]

I work for a newspaper. We have a lot of request to buy pictures and such that have been in the paper. We are looking to setup a website to sell these pictures. Do you guys think that osCommerce would be a good thing to use with this?

[user99999999]

I think it would be a good start, but you will need to be able to do some custom PHP coding to getwhat you want.

[Guest]

Yes, that would work OK, and with not too much rewriting I would have thought.

 

You can set it up to do downloadable products or actual products so you could sell both digital and printed images.

 

You would want to protect your images though by scrawling copyright watermarks all over them.

[patmoses]

Ok. What we want to do is have the pictures ordered. That order would be sent to someones email. We them burn those pictures to a CD. Then the customer comes and picks up the CD. We have a lot of pictures so is there like a mass product adder that wouldnt take up to much time?

[Guest]

There is a contrib calle EasyPopulate, although people do have problems with it.

[AlanR]

Ok. What we want to do is have the pictures ordered. That order would be sent to someones email. We them burn those pictures to a CD. Then the customer comes and picks up the CD. We have a lot of pictures so is there like a mass product adder that wouldnt take up to much time?

Heh.

 

Just earlier today someone linked a store here and they were using this for image managment.

 

http://www.albinator.com/product/

[Virtual1]

Go with osC - it is killer for what you want. Albinator will cost and will not be all you think it is. It's a gallery app first and foremost.

 

Do some homework and with VERY LITTLE effort you can skip the entire burn process.

[patmoses]

I really want to use this software but I for the life of me cant figure out how I am going to add in all the pictures and such into the MySQL DB. It really would not be practical to have to add them in one by one. It also looks that with the EasyPopulate thing that all items have to be added in one by one via Excell. What I need is something that adds in the picture name, what Category and Sub Category its in in OSC, date, where the picture is located on teh server, price, and date added. Any ideas on anything that automates this or any ideas on how I can approach this problem?

[joeyjgarcia]

I like OSC, but I think you touched on the OSC weakness, and it may be what causes you to go elsewhere. OSC doesn't not have a batch populate, and if it does adding any kind of attributes to a product listing would probably be a dealbreaker if you have A LOT of products that need attributes. It can be done, but you would need quite a bit of custom PHP programming to build the relationships and insert the product images into the database. But, once you got it working it could save TONS of hours and pay for itself probably in a short time frame.