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[rfwoolf]

Some advice:

I have an existing php website that also has a 'shop' page which lists all our products, and PayPal "Buy Now" buttons.
Is there a way I can "have" oscommerce, but only on 1 page?
How would you recommend I go about this?

Thanks!!!!!!!!!

[DunWeb]

Richard,

osCommerce is a complete ecommerce solution.  There would be no reason to use your existing site.



Chris

[multimixer]

Well, everything on one page is not possible, and would also look strange: There are some pages. like he checkout pages, that need to be separatelly. But probably you don't mean this.

If I understand correctly, you want a page that
- list all your 5 products on the front page with a buy now button under/beside them
- there are no detailed product info pages since  there is not much to say about the products, also no additional images needed
- people buy directly from the frontpage and proceed to regular checkout, to select payment etc

Yes, that's possible

EDIT: all your other pages would be included into osCommerce as well, you don't need any other website (except you want a blog, forum etc)

Edited by multimixer, 07 May 2011 - 03:45 PM.

[rfwoolf]

Chris,
I want to keep my website but implement oscommerce -- I do not want the "shopping cart" on every page, and I only have 5 products (each product is customisable by weight and flavour etc). How would I go about implementing osCommerce but keeping the exact structure of my website, except for the shop.php page?

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Edited by rfwoolf, 07 May 2011 - 04:04 PM.

[rfwoolf]

multimixer, on 07 May 2011 - 03:44 PM, said:

Well, everything on one page is not possible, and would also look strange: There are some pages. like he checkout pages, that need to be separatelly. But probably you don't mean this.

Yes, I don't mean that. The checkout page can be 1 page or more, that doesn't matter.
I basically want to keep the structure of my site, except on the shop.php page I want a "shopping cart" and all my (five) products listed.
In the worst case, I don't really mind hacking the hell out of a oscommerce template that just has a header, body and footer and then somehow removing the shopping cart from all the pages except one.

[rfwoolf]

Here is the solution I found:
I put some of my php files into the catalog directory, for example
catalog/index.php <--- I over-write the default oscommerce index.php
catalog/faqs.php
catalog/etc...

Then I create a new page called shop.php, and register it in osCommerce in the filenames.php
catalog/shop.php
Then I use STS (Simple Template System) contribution to design the page exactly like the rest of my website, and simply put $shoppingcart$ where I want the shopping cart to appear, and $content$ where I want some of my products to appear.

Of course there was a lot of manipulation and experimentation that took me a week, but in short that is what I have done