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    Hi,

    Has anyone installed and got "ShopKeeper" working in English? Extra is here - http://modxcms.com/extras/package/527 Seems to all be in Russian - interested to see an English working version and to find out some more about it. Anyone know much about it?

    MODx is crying out for a comprehensive e commerce plugin/solution here!

    Cheers

    dubbs
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      Hey dubbs,

      the package contains an english translation ( i added german for the next version + setup a german demo-site for the simplest cart ). Andchir will add english demos to his site too: http://shopkeeper.wdevblog.net.ru/shopkeeper_demo/primer_1.html

      MODx is crying out for a comprehensive e commerce plugin/solution here
      right...and now we’ve got shopkeeper in developement and either people don’t realize the potential, or don’t know about it huh

      this is the support-thread btw. http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=41806

      j
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        Thanks Sharkbait.

        I will investigate it! Be great to se it built out in English!

        How does the transaction occur in the plugin?
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          How does the transaction occur in the plugin?
          it’s a module for the backend where you can see incoming orders and flag them corresponding to their order-status. in the frontend it’s a Snippet for the shopping-basket. If an an item has been "shopped", an email will be sent to the customer with the order details ( and one to you ) + the order will be displayed in the module

          according to Andchir a payment gateway would be possible, the documentation just hasn’t been fully translated yet
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            (cutting and pasting this from another thread on this topic, I wrote smiley

            "Back in mid-June I went through the shopkeeper v0.8.8_beta_1 code and converted all the Russian to English. Also, I took notes from the video tutorials to implement the demo store - again in English. I made these files available to the author and others, but it doesn’t look like they’re surfacing. Soooo...

            My version of shopkeeper_0.8.8_beta_1 :
            http://www.considine.net/mac/shopkeeper_0.8.8.1_beta1_en.zip
            (I realize there’s a later beta, but I haven’t done anything with it).

            My notes on doing a full install (including setting up a site in ModX) is here :
            http://www.considine.net/mac/shk_notes_en_mattc.txt

            These notes aren’t pretty - I wrote them up as I was installing things so that if I screwed something up, I could go
            back and try to unscrew it. So they’re step-by-step in the I-hope-I-never-really-need-these-notes sense, not in the what-a-beautiful-tutorial-this-is sense. Caveat emptor..."

            I haven’t tried this same approach with the latest 0.9 version or with the latest demo site. Hope this helps...

            MattC
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              Hey mconsidine,

              "Back in mid-June I went through the shopkeeper v0.8.8_beta_1 code and converted all the Russian to English. Also, I took notes from the video tutorials to implement the demo store - again in English.
              that’s great - thanks!

              we should somehow merge (or start a new one / have a sticky topic - keep this one here?! ) the different shopkeeper threads. i guess this one http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,41806.html is just for the 0.9 beta6 release and another thread will be started for another version, right?
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                Hi sharkbait,

                Yes, I think there ought to be some kind of sticky English thread. I ended up having to use Google’s translate feature to try to get parts of the long Russian thread figured out (I think it’s different from the one you linked to). I really wish we could get an English version of that, as I suspect a lot of questions have already been answered there.

                I guess one approach would be to run that whole thread through the translator and then have someone who knows both languages try to make the English more readable. Know anyone who could do that? I’m willing to run the pages through Google if that would get things started ...

                I don’t know if new threads get started for each version or not. I’ve installed the new version just to see if I could get it to work and my old instructions seem to work (btw, I’m not kidding when I say they need to be cleaned up).

                What I wasn’t able to easily do is replicate the new demo site. Nor did my selection "fly" to the cart as in the demo. So I don’t know if I goofed in implementing it or if there’s a bug somewhere.

                The other thing I don’t know about is how payment via a gateway like Paypal could be incorporated. I think there’s something called PCI compliance that comes into play.

                Anyway, just a couple of thoughts. If I can help further on this, toss out the suggestions.

                MattC
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                  hey mconsidine,
                  I don’t know if new threads get started for each version or not. I’ve installed the new version just to see if I could get it to work and my old instructions seem to work (btw, I’m not kidding when I say they need to be cleaned up).
                  did you download this version? http://modxcms.com/extras/package/527 and checked the english documentation?

                  i managed to install a simple cart & the module without problems (following the english docs from the above download-link): http://bit.ly/4qMyDN

                  The other thing I don’t know about is how payment via a gateway like Paypal could be incorporated. I think there’s something called PCI compliance that comes into play.
                  this is not implemented yet, but as far as i understood Andchir, it will be (or could) done in future:
                  There is a possibility of connection of payment systems. Documentation is not yet fully translated into English

                  To connect the system of payment (receipts and statements, etc.) can make an additional snippet, which may use session variables that are created after you submit your order:
                  $_SESSION['shk_order_id'] - ID Order in a database;
                  $_SESSION['shk_payment_method'] - chosen method of payment (list with name="payment" );
                  $_SESSION['shk_order_price'] - Total price;
                  $_SESSION['shk_currency'] - currency;
                  $_SESSION['shk_order_user_id'] - ID Users (if not registered = 0)

                  btw. Andchir told me he will setup an english demo-site...
                  Anyway, just a couple of thoughts. If I can help further on this, toss out the suggestions.
                  same here smiley let’s see where it goes and/or who else jumps in to help kick it off

                  jan
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                    Hi sharkbait,

                    Yeah, I saw the latest package. And I agree that the English documentation is good enough to get it up and running. I’m grateful to Andchir for doing that.

                    What I think we really need (scratch that, what *I* really need wink ) is to see an English tutorial on how the demo site got set up. There’s enough that is new (e.g. the SHKwidget, the tie in to logged in customers) that I need to be looking over someone’s shoulder in order to appreciate better what can and can’t be done.

                    My hat’s off to Andchir, though, for doing what’s been done in *any* language.

                    Matt
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                      Not sure if this was a waste of time or not, but it might be helpful. I’ve run the first 38 pages of the Shopkeeper discussion found here
                      http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,31961.0.html
                      through Google’s translator, printing out the results to PDFs. These were then compressed and uploaded to
                      http://www.considine.net/mac/Shopkeeper_thread_pp1_38.zip (4MB)
                      To say that the translations leave something to be desired is an understatement. Still, maybe it will help figure out what problems and solutions others are coming up with.
                      MattC