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#46 2005-03-18 22:24:28
- aboswell
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- Registered: 2004-11-08
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
This is a very interesting topic for me. I have used TXP 3 times so far (with 2 more sites backed up). On every one I have used it a a CMS not blog. I love it. I love this community! Mary has helped me to extract the urls out for a custom pulldown, and others are so free with advice and help. I hope I can be the same when I have a few more sites under my belt.
On to eCommerce:
I (and partners) have a few sites. One is a fairly static site that I am converting over. The other 2 are ecommerce.
ScreenGuardz is a hybrid HTML (tables, sorry) /RTML (yahoo merchant solutions). Yahoo is a good solution for a shopping cart because they handle the merchant account.
Headhound is a pure osCommerce site. ON ACID. As far as I am concerned, we have taken osCommerce to a new level. We got a pretty good programmer on-board and he set me up with some rockin templates so I could change everything about the look and feel (I am a geek/designer, not a programmer).
I am hoping to use TXP/Yahoo for the new Screenguardz site that I am working on. I host everything off of the Yahoo stores so the solution I am suggesting probably wouldn’t work for me but…
Yahoo has a great system of store tags (php includes). If you could get everything TXP running on Yahoo Hosting and set up a merchant account, you could use the store tags in your articles (or vice-versa).
Sorta like this: Yahoo uses an id number for EVERYTHING. so set Custom Field 1 to be that number. Then in your article template you can set all the Yahoo code up to call said Custom Field. i know there is more that I am leaving out, but it really ins’t a formed idea. Just a thought…
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
bluearc21 wrote:
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Before TextPattern, there wasn’t a lightweight, open-source web publishing software that I thought could be used effectively and intentionally for a broad range of designs and sites.
I feel the same about eCommerce. It doesn’t exist yet, but it’s possible to have an open source, tight package that does the essentials really well, and can be extended easily with a simple plug-in technique.
What better community to take it on that the TXP community? And what better publishing software to extend into commerce than TextPattern?
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Amen.
I’d happily test it….
Ben.
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
zem:
Don’t underestimate the complexity of this kind of thing. There’s no such thing as a simple online store package.
Agreed. There’s “no such thing”, yet. Zem in your quietest moments of contemplation, could you envision a commerce admin plugin for TextPattern? If so, being a programmer currently working on TextPattern source, what would you consider a reasonable scope and scale for such a project?
“If you build it, they will come.”
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
Can we not further this conversation somewhat? It’s rather important…
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
I agree with you NikLP.
And it doesn’t have to be as advanced as some (Zem) fear. Look at this nice, small, easy solution for WordPress:
http://redalt.com/downloads/wp/microshop.zip
It can also be used without WordPress.
- and then if the possibility of selling soft goods, like downloads, was added, we would be home free;-)
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#52 2005-09-15 23:54:57
- zem
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- Registered: 2004-04-08
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
And it doesn’t have to be as advanced as some (Zem) fear.
Spoken like someone who’s never done it :)
I’ve used Microshop. With Textpattern. It needs a lot of custom work for each individual store.
Alex
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#53 2005-09-16 07:10:06
- -jw-
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- From: fruitbelly, the Netherlands
- Registered: 2004-03-16
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
this article was written some time ago, but gives a nice insight in what’s possible at the moment.
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#54 2005-09-24 16:50:42
- szac
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- From: Detroit-ish
- Registered: 2004-09-18
- Posts: 50
Re: TxP + E-commerce
Hi,
This little cart script here appears to have potential, but I just can’t get the form action to post anything. And I’m not even sure that I have the script included before the session starts and if the session is even including the script (i suck at PHP).
With this, some custom fields, mem_self_register and PayPal it seems llike it could work. Anyone have any suggestions?
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#55 2005-11-20 09:58:13
- Nichod
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- Registered: 2005-06-06
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Re: TxP + E-commerce
The best solution I’ve found is using options like Safe-T-Lock.. An option I’m working on implementing on my website, along with the paypal shopping cart. Once I get it fully up and working I’ll discuss the implementation and how well it went. I do wish that a simple implementation utilizing the paypal shopping cart was intergrated within textpattern, if I had the time and knowledge of txp system I’d think about doing it myself, but I barely have time to type this.
Some other solutions a simple php shop code: http://www.zend.com/codex.php?id=112&single=1
Example phpwcms module that was built in 4 days: http://dev.brenner.be/index.php?topic=82.msg152
We just need someone with a little time on there hands.
Please try Textpattern for Aptana
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