Shopping cart

[joost]

I was fortunate to be the first one to 'test-drive' this new version and YES, all of sudden the basic shopping cart is a much more usefull instrument. Over the past month I have checked many different solutions. Since I have used Coppermine for quite a couple of years, you tend to measure everything against this (great) package. But, even when you take an objective standpoint, one realises that the flexibility and expendibility of Coppermine is hard to match.

For the project on hand I really need some shopping capabilities and I felt I had to look around. After checking I don't know how many packages most promising looked to me the EOS (eostemplate.com) plugin for JAlbum/IMatch/IView/BreezeBrowser or PhotoStore from KTOOLS.net. The big problem with EOS (imho) is that you create the albums off-line, which means that you probably have to work from the same location all the time. It is also a bit tedious what you need to go through to adjust existing albums. Fine for occasional use. but for everyday additions/changes??? From the way I understood the concept you also need to organise another website with links to every album you create. There are some other issues as well.
KTools has a pretty nice solution, but it is completely in English and you have to go through the entire source to translate into another language. Imagine future updates.... Also, I don't like the way subalbums are handled. Lastly, I believe the layout can only be adapted so much, I looked at all the modified templates and they pretty much looked like the base template with only different background pictures and colours, but not true makeovers.

The incredible flexibility offered in Coppermine, the ease of creating add hoc categories and albums, the ease to handle either 10 or 1000 pictures, it all made me come back and trying to find a way to make this (coppermine) work for my purpose. The basic photoshop from Stramm did just not cut it for me, but version 1.3 makes the difference. For me, and I believe for many others, this will work right out of the box. At first glance there are just some minor changes, but when you think about the implications, you realize that suddenly this is a package with enormous potential.

I certainly hope there will be someday a version 1.x, but already: thumbs up for this great plugin.

THANK YOU STRAMM

[fovsports]

Installed the plugin yesterday.  The only thing so far I need help with is the order manager. I see that I have 8 orders but the manager is only showing one order at a time. I rearranged the order/orders to sort in a different fashion ie. order date,order id and I can see that the other orders pop up but only one at a time. The complete list of orders do not show up, but are in the system? I should mention that the version I installed is 1.3 the newest right? I did install a long time ago 1.0 and yes I did uninstall it could that have something to do with it?

[Stramm]

8 orders or 8 items for that order?? Verify with a tool like phpmyadmin... open the shop table and browse it. Can you see 8 different order ids (oid)??

[fovsports]

see below

[fovsports]

Stramm , Here is the data from shop table.

INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (1, 1, 1, 1518, 0, 1, '4x6', 2.00, 1160437327, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 2.00, 1160437327, 1, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (3, 2, 1, 43, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160438133, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (4, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160438133, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (5, 3, 1, 1717, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160438514, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (6, 3, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160438514, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (7, 4, 1, 1717, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160438935, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (8, 4, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160438935, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (9, 5, 1, 43, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160440323, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (10, 5, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160440323, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (11, 6, 1, 43, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160440485, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (12, 6, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160440485, 1, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (13, 7, 245, 1518, 0, 1, '5x7', 7.00, 1160455742, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (14, 7, 245, 1518, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160455742, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (15, 7, 245, 0, 1, 2, '0', 12.00, 1160455742, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (16, 8, 245, 1518, 0, 1, '5x7', 7.00, 1160455900, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (17, 8, 245, 1518, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160455900, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (18, 8, 245, 0, 1, 2, '0', 12.00, 1160455900, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (19, 9, 245, 1518, 0, 1, '5x7', 7.00, 1160455905, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (20, 9, 245, 1518, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160455905, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (21, 9, 245, 0, 1, 2, '0', 12.00, 1160455905, 1, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (22, 10, 1, 43, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160497236, 0, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (23, 10, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160497236, 1, 2);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (24, 11, 1, 1461, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160510912, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (25, 11, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160510912, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (26, 12, 1, 1102, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160510948, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (27, 12, 1, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160510948, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (28, 13, 2, 829, 0, 1, '4x6', 5.00, 1160511048, 0, 0);
INSERT INTO `cpg148_shop` VALUES (29, 13, 2, 0, 1, 1, '0', 5.00, 1160511048, 0, 0);

as the vaules show I have deleted some and not others. My userid = 1 and my partners is 245 and a test user is 2.  So cuurrently there are order id's 11,12,13 and my photo_shop_admin is stating that there is 3 which is correct but only showing one, see attached image.

I use the paypal gateway, and I have also commented out the line
$html = str_replace('{SUB_MENU}','{SUB_MENU} <br /> {CART_MENU}',$html);
in the file codebase.php. for design purposes.
And placed {CART MENU} in my template.html per your suggestion.

[joost]

To Fovsports: just for the sake of testing, switch to another thema and see what happens. It almost looks like the orders are there but that there is not enough room to list all of them...

[fovsports]

I wish I could change to another theme for testing but, when I started using coppermine a year ago I messed/modded to many things and have learned a very important lesson, never mod certain files. Now I'm stuck with one and only one theme. Thanks for the help as you can tell I really need it.

[Stramm]

I restored your SQL dump on my local install. All working as expected. I see your three orders (the last ones you did with USER ID 1 and 2). My suggestion would also have been to upload the classic theme and test again. Just with uploading a folder into the themes dir you can't mess up anything. Swithcing between themes you do with adding ?theme=classic to your URL eg. mydomain.com/cpg/index.php?theme=classic

[Dirk]

Hello Stramm,

great MOD!

Is it possible to use the plugin wihtout a registration? Perhaps it´s possible fill out a form with the Adress (where sent the Photos)?

Thanx!

Dirk

[Stramm]

possible... but you'd have to change some code... but why??

you need the customers data... if you save it in a new table or in the cpg_user table, who cares??? If you do not like the customers to be a regular registered user then create a new group 'customers' and when they register using the shops login form they automatically get put into that group.

[Dirk]

At the moment you can download the files if you´re login (i need this function). And i don´t want give shop user the possebility for the file download.

Thanx for fast answer!

Dirk

[Stramm]

there's a plugin that controls file access for certain groups... have a look into it. Should be exactly what you need to fine tune permissions

[Dirk]

Great idea it function. Last problem the without permisson are not able to select the picture they want buy (see the jpg). I use Full-Size Photos Access Control v1.4. Perhaps the drop down can be place otherwise.

[Paver]

It looks like the "Full-Size Photos Access Control" is at fault.  I need to look at this sometime (and will post on that plugin's thread when ready).

For now, you can fix this by putting the Shop plugin below the Access Control plugin (using the arrows on the plugin manager page).  With the Access Control plugin on top, things seem to work fine.

[jesperd]

Hi, thanks for a great plugin.

When I open a picture based on the result of a search, I can't add to the shopping cart. But as soon I click the URL listed in the file info section and clikc the "Add to shopping cart" from there, it works fine. Actually it works fine regardless of how I came to the picture except from searches.

Sometimes a little icon is shown between the "# images in cart" and "Checkout" button when images are added to the cart.

Have I done something wrong, and if so, can anybody point me in the right direction?

Thanks a lot. I hope I have posted the right place.

Jesper

[Stramm]

search works with cookies... and therefore the URL for all searches is the same -> adding the items to the shop db won't work. Only practical solution would be to blend out the shop for searches

[ralfs]

Announcement:
New version Photo Shop v1.3 available

Hi,

Where do i get this plugin? In cpg149_plugin_pack.zip I can only find the version 1.0
The cpg149_modpack_stramm_3.zip contains other stuff.

I am too silly - or it has been forgotten to state somewhere ...

Regards,
Ralf

[Stramm]

attatchment in the first post of this thread

[ralfs]

   sometimes, it is so easy ...

Thanks!

[fareforce]

Stramm,

  Is there a way to streamline the paypal option a little? Maybe when the user is viewing their cart, and click on checkout, it takes them directly to paypal, and then have paypal return them to the confirrmation page. Paypal can send all of the info back to the website, via a token. If you could point me in the right direction I will see what I can work up..

Also, how hard would it be to add a different shipping amount for each item, or assign each item a weight, and then calculate the shipping.. Unfortunatly, I sell everything from postcards, to large framed pictures. Once again, maybe if you can point me in the right direction...

Kinda like mixing oscommerse with this.

Thanks,

I have attached the files I use for oscommerse for the 3 types of payment I do, and the shipping stuff..  It might help..