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- cadavreexquis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7osCommerce is the biggest piece of convoluted, nested table crap I've ever had the misfortune to use. And its security holes are gaping.
- mrmagoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The article is badly written. Everything is jumbled together and the tone of the article is kind of rambly. Might be a cool idea, but presentation is key.
- endofamnesia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I used a simple client side shopping cart -
http://members.aol.com/paypalcart/index1.html
Wordpress has a plugin for custom fields, so for each product there are custom values for price/stock/format etc etc. For paypal these values are automatically added into the paypal code by using a bit of php -
echo c2c_get_custom('format')
Hope this answers your question - I can post a screenshot of the backend of wordpress if that would help people see how I did it.
Again I don't recommend this as a complete solution, it caused a lot of headaches along the way. The big positives are that it's free and extremely search engine friendly. - miclamarre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you guys want to set this up locally to test it, here's something that might come in handy:
http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/06/installing-wordpress-locally-under.html - akbal23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Having used osCommerce for 2 unfortunate years I can attest personally to the fact that it's not worth the electrons assembled to present it.
We flirted briefly with ZenCart, which is made up of hacks on top of the osCommerce hacks, but it is at least run by a community (instead of a single egomaniac who stifles development, ala osCommerce) and has a very active development cycle. As I understand it ZenCart plans to eventually re-write every line of code they inherited from the awful osCommerce product, so it may very well be a good, free cart program somewhere down the line.
Ultimately we decided to shell out some coin for X-Cart, and I've gotta say it's just beautiful. Totally worth the investment. The code is very nicely maintained, highly modular and easy to upgrade. CSS support is fabulous. The support personnel are always quick to provide solutions to problems. Definitely recommend it for any osCommerce refugees like myself. http://www.x-cart.com/ - cakestick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3By free, you mean $69.95.
- timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ZenCart is a fork of osCommerce. So, like father, like son.
- zackr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, instead of talking about osCommerce as a previous poster did, why not let us know about a made-for-e-commerce package which has the following features:
- CSS-based standards compliant markup
- plugins/modules (for everything from payment gateways to protected information)
- open source
- PHP/MySQL OR ROR-based
- a great administration interface
- easily skinnable
I'm thinking though that no such thing exists. Until such a mythical beast as I just talked about above appears, I'll continue to use Wordpress or similar CMS which actually include a certain amount of the points I made above. Much like what TFA is talking about (Though I've already made a lot of use of the ideas in it). - WebCester, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Any specific reason for channeling Vicky Pollard in an unrelated story?
- JackHererUK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Ha ha, i don't think anyone from the US will get the reference though
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3hah, ***** this thing is an online shop.
where's the credit card gateway? exactly, unless it can take payments it's useless - hurfydurfur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just last night I started down the path of "turn wordpress into a news site". I don't really want to do news per se but I would like to publish a series of articles at one time (issues). I started out with Drupal (which The Onion uses) and it looks fairly straight-forward although a long learning curve.
I wish this was turn Wordpress into a working news site. I love wordpress, I've written a few small hacks/plugins for it, but it's a blog first (afaik) and this sort of hack I want to stay away from. - DeadFly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting collection of music. What is the flash control you're using to play the music?
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about ZenCart?
- elihusmails, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@endofamnesia
How did you set up the billing system? I see that you use PayPal, but how did you tie it all together? - amythewasp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I looked into Shopify. They charge 3% commission per successful transaction. Ouch.
Sometimes doing it yourself is less expensive. - ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Paypal?
- dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13% commision...but no hosting fees. If you have a slow month, it doesn't cost you a dime.
- akbal23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1osCommerce provides support for dozens of different payment gateways. None are set up out-of-the-box - you'd have to go sign up with one. I'm using PsiGate and I'm quite happy with them. There are lots available.
If you are going to use osCommerce, please, for the love of Bob.. don't store any credit card info on your server! Let your payment gateway handle it, because you will most likely be hacked! - oziescom, on 12/27/2008, -0/+0can i wordpress do that...??
I prefer joomla is better to make online shop
http://money-online-guide.blogspot.com - rasputnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1That's as clanky as a bag of spanners.
Even osCommerce isn't as convoluted, and it has nice things like "features that
are actually useful for selling things online". Sheesh.
If you're a noob, just use a hosted solution like http://shopify.com/ . They handle all the hard bits for you. - starfuryfighter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I wish to know how to turn Wordpress installation into community blog :-)
- endofamnesia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I actually used wordpress for an online shop and it works pretty well. It was a lot of work to modify it with assorted plugins and such, I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a solution but stuff like OsCommerce seemed ugly and unusable.
The way I did it was quite different from the article which doesn't seem to be very insightful at all. For anyone interested you can view my wordpress shop here -
http://www.loosemusic.com/shop - akbal23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually most credit card portals will charge you 3% + a transaction fee. As does PayPal. osCommerce requires that you set up a payment gateway of some sort, so it's probably going to cost you the same.
- akbal23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/downloads
- gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you get a merchant account through your bank and then an account with one of the credit card portals (all required for processing credit cards yourself, btw) you can usually start with a fee that is less than 3%. Often around 2.5%. After setting a proven track record of regular sales of X amount per month you can get that percentage reduced. Even to below 2%.
Of course you have to consider the "gateway" fee, setup fees, per transaction fees... it gets pretty hairy. PayPal and it's ilk may charge a higher percentage but unless you do high volume and/or really live and die on a small margin of profit, it can be quite convenient and worth it. - flyingkites, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Look at Wp eCommerce by Instinct
- Saranjeuhal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Look Into CubeCart at CubeCart.com. Has everything that you need, very simple to install and use, and free. I'm using it right now in a store that will be going live soon (to feed my CCG/RPG/Board Game habit).
- sciencebase, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5Yerr, but no, but, Wordpress see has all these tweaks and bells and whistles, like, shaddap will ya, an' Tracey said we cud sell the earrings and stuff wot we made in PE, and make a fortune and buy loadsa dope and.......
- JackHererUK, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1You could install and setup osCommerce on your web space and then pruchase an osCommerce template from http://www.templatemonster.com and have a fully functioning emcommerce site up and running in a couple of hours at a cost of a couple of hundred dollars.
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