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Old 12-15-2008, 05:33 PM Shopping cart for existing site
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I have been using static pages with paypal buttons, often with some help from javascript to pass additional information to paypal. Its been working fine till now.

Now we need something much more complex. The goal here is to add a shopping cart page, and not change any other part of the existing well optimized site. There will only be one page in the site where people can order merchandise.

The page I am thinking about will have a list of 15 - 20 items for purchase, and it will need a quantity option for each. Then the user should be taken to a checkout page, where they will have multiple payment options, paypal, visa, mastercard, etc. It will need to calculate freight and sales tax; all the usual shopping cart functions.

Maybe the right way to do this is to have a shopping cart in its own special directory and let it do its thing, and just use an iframe to include the dynamic page within a static page.

What I am asking is what is the best way to approach this issue.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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Old 12-15-2008, 06:03 PM Re: Shopping cart for existing site
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iFrame not a good idea. SSL certificates may not work properly with some browsers.

You are better off copying the site design on the shopping cart as well. I think it would be 3 pages or so in total there.
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Old 12-15-2008, 06:44 PM Re: Shopping cart for existing site
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Thanks for the tip.

Is there such a thing as using my Dreamweaver templates on a shopping cart?

Are you saying that its OK to mix some dynamic pages into my static pages?

Should I just load a fantastico shopping cart into a first level directory, and try to make one of their pages as much like my other as possible. Then just link to the dynamic pages with plain old html links and not worry about mixing html and php?

If so which cart would you suggest:
CubeCart
OS Commerce
Zen Cart

Thanks for your help.
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Old 12-15-2008, 11:55 PM Re: Shopping cart for existing site
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Go with what works best for you in the current moment of time.
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Old 12-16-2008, 12:17 AM Re: Shopping cart for existing site
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Thanks for the tip.

Is there such a thing as using my Dreamweaver templates on a shopping cart?

Are you saying that its OK to mix some dynamic pages into my static pages?

Should I just load a fantastico shopping cart into a first level directory, and try to make one of their pages as much like my other as possible. Then just link to the dynamic pages with plain old html links and not worry about mixing html and php?

If so which cart would you suggest:
CubeCart
OS Commerce
Zen Cart

Thanks for your help.
Out of the free open source shopping carts I highly recommend MagentoCommerce.com. It has lots of neat features and very easy to use.
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Old 12-17-2008, 02:10 PM Re: Shopping cart for existing site
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I recommend OpenCart which uses PHP and MySQL and an easy Model-View-Controller design.
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Old 01-13-2009, 04:49 AM Re: Shopping cart for existing site
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As far as I know, LiteCommerce supports DreamWeaver templates integration. It's very simple and affordable.
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