ScreenGuardz

ricoschette · 2005-10-08 21:20:56

great stuff!
I am also interested in how e-commerce and TXP can be painlessly united together. Must read this thread 3 times to figure your moves exactly out… :P (midnight here and sleepy)

Last edited by ricoschette (2005-10-08 21:21:37)

aboswell · 2005-10-09 07:28:14

bitwise- I am using TXP on my own server and then processing the shopping cart through Yahoo. I don’t know if you can still do that, but on the Yahoo account that we have (very old) it goes to http://order.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/wg-order?screenguardz so I pass the variables through like I have shown above and it adds the item to the cart. It’s kinda cool that it allows me to add the items across domains.

Perhaps the thing to do with the current Yahoo accounts would be to buy two URLs and point one to the shopping cart. Like so:

http://www.screenguardz.com is the store and http://www.screenguardz-checkout.com is the cart. Dunno if that would work.

ricoschette- I wouldn’t call putting this together painless, but i can be done. This cart so far has processed over 1000 orders without a hitch since April. If you are having problems, post here and I will try to help as I have time.

Like I said in a previous post, I have been working on another cart using the latest revision of TXP. The project was supposed to be completed by the end of September, but…

I will post more as I can.

bitwise · 2005-10-09 17:23:16

Do you store the pricing information in TXP? I see that you have it on the product list and product pages.. but I didn’t see a field for it in your admin screenshot.

If I want to use clean URLs, I definitely can’t use Yahoo for the hosting account. Its a shame, because I’m paying $100/mo, and I really don’t want to have to spend more on another url.. it seems like it makes things unneccesarily difficult. Since I haven’t really invested too much time with the Yahoo store yet, I am wondering if I should find another eCommerce platform — one that would interface a little more seamlessly with TXP.

aboswell · 2005-10-09 19:58:56

The pricing is detirmined by our Yahoo interface, but there is a Yahoo code that can bring the price in. All of our stuff is the same price, though, so I hard coded it.

That sucks about Yahoo not allowing mod_rewrite and clean URLs. I wouldn’t switch ecommerce solutions just because it doesn’t play nice with TXP, though. We use Yahoo because the merchant solution was the best for our needs. You will have to weigh out what your needs are and go from there.

bitwise · 2005-10-09 20:12:39

I don’t see how you could use the yahoo codes in your textpattern pages. It sounds like your txp install is on a whole different server, can you explain how those work if its not on the y! side?

szac · 2005-10-10 01:26:17

I believe that he’s using custom forms along with his custom tags that point things to the yahoo cart.

bitwise · 2005-10-10 01:37:54

gotcha.. so the only thing he is storing in a custom field that affects the yahoo store is the product id. then he just stores that in a hidden field that posts to yahoo?

the more i look into this, the less it is making sense to stay with yahoo. i was trying to use the store tags on a php page, but i guess they only work on html pages, so it really limits you on what you can do. They dont make it very clear before you purchase, so if anyone else is thinking about going this route, just be warned before you drop down $100..

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