adding a shop to the website

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miss_d_bus
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adding a shop to the website

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At the moment i have a basic website using CMSMS. I love the way the system works and more importantly, how easy it is to template it. However, ive been asked to add some form of shop system. I have already a barebones shopping cart written in PHP so its just a case of having a front end that would allow me to send products to this shopping cart so they can be bought using paypal, credit card etc. I am thinking how to do it because i really do not want to add the OScommerce package as its so bloated and over the top for the needs of most people. It seems so overkill. Anyway I have never liked OScommerce as its a right pain to customise its look and doesnt work right with templating. If i knew PHP I would write it myself but can someone give me an idea of how easy it is to do this?
I see there is a module called Cataloger but it is a non-ecommerce cataloging system. How easy would it be to extend it so all it does is to pass a few parameters to a separate shopping cart with an add to cart button? If this is way over my head, I will go back and say its not something I can do but if it sounds reasonable to implement, I'll give it a go. It would be nice to see any existing website that is using it so I can get a feel of what it does unmodded? Anyone know of a site that uses it? Thanks

what does anyone else think? I've not had a look at the Cataloger module to see if its capable to do what I want it to do as this isnt my PC and and I cant open the file but will look later. Does it sound possible to mod?

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cyberman

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Post by cyberman »

Perhaps that helps ...
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Re: adding a shop to the website

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I'll have a look into it but its not really what i am looking for as its too powerful for what I need. I am looking for a very basic e-commerce solution to keep the site simple for both me and the users. I dislike OScommerce and its spin offs because even though templating is possible with Zen Cart, its not ideal.
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cyberman

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There's another shop system but only available in svn - please look here ...
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Re: adding a shop to the website

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ah, thanks for that. It will be interesting to see the progression with that one.
It does look much simplier from what I can tell.
ploum

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Any experience from this module ? Is it working ? Is it still developped. Look interesting.
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