[Project] shopX 2.1

I am beginning a project for a native MODx shopping system, using the MODx structure as much as possible. Watch its progress and add comments and suggestions at http://www.sottwell.com/shop.html (need to fix this up again)

Latest package available attached here.

UPDATE 27 June 2006

Nice Nice Nice

Will follow this project.

Nice Susan

The link you gave, gives a funny page (looks like a typo but wheard that it still works only css is missing)

I’m just getting started...I want the basic structure set up, then I’ll work on the "fine points"!

Quote from: Dimmy at Nov 25, 2005, 08:04 AM

The link you gave, gives a funny page (looks like a typo but wheard that it still works only css is missing)

Here is the correct link : http://www.sottwell.com/shop.html

@Susan : I had followed the discussion about building shop with no external module... This is an interesting project where do you find time for all this ! I’ll wacth this and comment, you can count on me

Log in as "shopadmin" password "shopadmin" and add stuff. Still working on the layout of the output...that NewsPublisher is really nice.

Looking nice !

I added MODx inside ... lolz, add [*longtitle*] support in content page and you will laugh

regards,

zi

Check it out...using the "headertpl" option to display longtitle and price. Will have "toss into cart" and a text box to enter quantity in the "footertpl".

Ok, basic single-category simple catalog is done for now; might do a bit more on formatting the output. I didn’t use the RTE feature because it doesn’t allow for image insertion. The minute a front-end implementation of the RTE does that, I’ll put it in. The front-end creation is just a convenience; if somebody really wants to they can add items from the back end, of course, and have the RTE and the Resource Manager.

Next step, shopping cart. Ideas? Should this be cookie or session based? I’m thinking cookie, because sessions time out. This version will not have persistance. That will come when the three main functions (catalog, shopping cart, checkout) are finished and working. Then I’ll start refining each function until everybody’s happy

Well, QuickEdit works great on it; so you can insert images from there. I went ahead and enabled the RTE for the NewsPublisher snippet. Very powerful tool there.

I used the "Description" field for the price, since it’s hardly ever used for anything anyway.

I think there is merit in adding a couple extra fields to TVs/Content Pages for use with things like this. Susan if you’re looking for ideas on how to cram more info into the existing fields, take a peek at FileCabinet which puts data into a pipe-delimited array which is parsed back out as needed.