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#1 2007-05-04 09:51:33
- ricoschette
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order products w/o e-cart installed
Sry, couldn’t make better headline…
I need to do following:
1. I have a website that shows products. I mean, you can’t buy anything from the site directly. So, it is not a online shop.
2. But my client asked me if it’s possible to make the ordering little more simplier. Right now all products have ID’s and when you want to order something you’d have to fill the form and write down that ID.
What would be great – if a customer could make a checkmark after a product he want’s to order. And when customer has finished selecting product(s) he’d click on “order-products” button (somewhere on page) to make an order.
And then an email would be sent out with the order info.
I really don’t know php, so I don’t know how to do that. I was hoping maybe there’s a plugin out there for this kind of thing.
Tnx in advance!!
Last edited by ricoschette (2007-05-04 09:58:35)
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
- zem_contact_reborn is a plugin which sends emails from your site, upon the click of a button.
- zem_contact_reborn does this by sending anything you’d want it to send, simply by specifying a form with all necessary input elements (button, text input, checkboxes, etc.).
- One element of this form could be
<txp:zem_contact_secret />, an invisible form element which is simply included in the e-mails body. You could fill this with your item id. - The item id would ideally be provided as the contents of a custom field.
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#3 2007-05-04 13:39:25
- ricoschette
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
tnx a lot.
I’m going to look into this.
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#4 2007-05-07 10:50:19
- ricoschette
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
so, I understand it like this:
- <txp:zem_contact to=“xxx@xxx.com”>
- <txp:zem_contact_secret label=“Product ID”>
- <txp:custom_field name=“product_ID” />
- </txp:zem_contact_secret>
- <txp:zem_contact_text label=“Amount” />
- <txp:zem_contact_submit label=“Order” />
- </txp:zem_contact>
Is it correct?
Last edited by ricoschette (2007-05-07 10:52:05)
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
Yes, although I think you also need a <txp:zem_contact_email /> field and perhaps a <txp:zem_contact_text label="Name" /> field, otherwise you don’t know who ordered what.
Last edited by ruud (2007-05-07 11:06:31)
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#6 2007-06-05 21:30:00
- ricoschette
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
The above form works like a charm :)
But, now I have another question.
I need to create a page where products are lined up and they all have some form elements in every single article. But the submit/order button is one for a whole product list.
Smth like this:
There are only 2 products on image, but let’s say there’s 100 and client should be able to choose several products at one order. Client would make necessary choices and then submit.
Impossible?
Last edited by ricoschette (2007-06-05 21:30:44)
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#7 2007-06-08 08:45:11
- ricoschette
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
anyone?
I guess easier would be just to install some free e-cart like ZenCart and that’s it.
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
It’s probably not impossible with zem_contact_reborn, but I wonder if that’s the right tool for the job.
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#9 2007-06-14 06:26:32
- ricoschette
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Re: order products w/o e-cart installed
I installed and tested several different free e-carts (maybe all of them) and all those work similar.
They are build up as my not-so-onlineshop system, except for the shopping cart of course.
Like Quick.Cart here
And they don’t offer options like choosing size, length etc. I’m not sure if those options could be added by modifing php code.
Why do I need that kind of system for the first place?
Well, my client has a competitor who has a system like this and it looked very usable. But now I think that this competitor’s system was custom made and isn’t typical e-shop. And it can accessed via username/password.
I guess I’m going to set up zencart or smth and just stick to it.
EDIT: grammar :)
Last edited by ricoschette (2007-06-14 12:53:58)
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