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With a little help from CodeIgniter writing such a script is peanuts.

All you need is in EE : entry_id for the product, a price, a title, a little description - all stored in the DB.

- Create a new table that stores session-id, entry_id and quantity.
- Make a script that accepts $POSTS and stores the above values in the DB.
- You can show the user it’s shopping cart by checking on session-id.
- Make him/her register / logon for the checkout.
- Retrieve all lines from the temp table and submit them to a new table together with the user_id to an orders table.
- Add additional taxes and transports depending on their location.
- Send out the emails.

Takes less than a day to code and deploy.

Or I could extensionify/pluginify/modulify my shopping cart ..

The last is of course preferred! But I already spoke with you about that.

Hi iworx.media,

If you are willing I and I’m sure many other people would love to see this as an extension or plugin or module if you feel so inclined to do so?

Would be excellent to see how you handled all of this.

Best wishes,

Mark

I have to finish up some projects before the weekend and after that some wel earned holiday 😉 Go Mickey!

The shop we created last year only gets it’s pricing, titles, shipping rates ea. from EE, the rest is handled by CI.
But that was before I learned about extensions and plugin’s. I strongly believe that it’s perfectly possible to move that code to EE.

I’ll get busy starting Feb 11th.

Hiya Mr Ninja man!!

Would be great to see how you did it so thank you for that.

I was trying for ages to find a way of having a simple shopping cart that works totally in conjunction with EE so that items from the Simple Commerce Module get added to it and also so the shopping cart can be ran through the EE template system. After all that just pass the information off to Paypal in the same way that the Simple Commerce Module does.

Would just be nice to get rid of the continual pop-up PayPal window every time you want to add another item to your basket! 😊

Best wishes,

Mark

If it were possible we would sell our PayPalPro module for EE as we do our other software, but there’s a little too much complexity for that. Instead we can help deploy the module on a site for you.

PayPalPro sits on top of Simple Commerce and talks to the PayPal API to allow you to process CC payments through your own EE templates without bouncing people to PayPal. It’s what we use to sell software at solspace.com.

The CI approach sounds pretty stellar though.

mk

I have received a lot of direct messages concerning the e-commerce module.

I still haven’t had a single day of time to work on this - client projects are plenty and at this moment don’t involve e-commerce.
I’ll update this thread when I start with it.