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What is the best approach to building a virtual gifts (e-card) website with ExpressionEngine?

February 10, 2012 12:00am

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  • #1 / Feb 10, 2012 12:00am

    Craig Allen

    135 posts

    Hello,

    I’m looking for some tips on how a website could be constructed.

    I’ll be arguing the case next week to my colleagues for rebuilding a virtual gifts (for conservation) website using ExpressionEngine. Here is the current site - wildgifts.bushheritage.org.au. It’s build with Ruby on Rails I think.

    The site allows users to give to conservation with cards purchased for their friends and relatives, stating that the gift has been given on their behalf. The cards can be printed cards that are posted, or can be e-cards that are emailed.

    Currently, if the card is an ecard then the recipient gets an email with a link to a web page. There is an example here

    In this case the message that the purchaser has entered for the recipient is simple. In other cases the message can be very personal.

    So, we need to make each persons card be accessible to them only. In the current site we have the address of the card obfuscated. But perhaps we could instead have the card be the email that is sent to the recipient rather than the email linking to the card.

    How would those two options best be achieved? Or is there a better way to do it?

    Oh, and by the way, I’m not a newbie, I’ve build several ExpressionEngine websites.

  • #2 / Feb 10, 2012 11:32am

    Shane Eckert

    7174 posts

    Hello Craig Allen,

    Thank you for using the ExpressionEngine forums!

    Your site sounds very nice, I cannot wait to see it in ExpressionEngine.

    When it comes to commerce Cartthrobe and Brilliant Retail are the two most popular add-ons. I believe the best way to go about an card would be to use one of these add-ons. If one of those add-ons jumps out at you, you could email your specifics to the developer or use their forums to see if anyone else has tried this before. Cartthrob’s forums are here.

    Does this help? If you have any more questions, please let me know!

    Cheers,

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