PayPal, Forms, and MODX

Hey there,

I think this would have to be the right place to ask this question.

I have a client site that I am moving to modx for them to be able to do simple updates themselves. I had already got some great feedback from frogabog on integrating my contact form.

The client called me the other day and wants to be able to offer a group of churches across the country the ability to order shirts through the site. The church is having a conference in the future and is offering all churches that are sending members to the conference their own shirts. The shirts will be the same on the front of every one and then will have some text on the back reflecting their specific location.

Here is what I had in mind:
Just have a contact style form requesting their contact information, then have a few fields where they can enter the text that will be printed on the backs of the shirts (each described as 'upper text on rear of the shirt', etc.), then a drop down or box that they can pick a quantity of shirts. This number they choose will then be used to calculate the total price of the shirts, and when the form is submitted, they will be forwarded to a paypal page to pay for the order. Also, upon submitting the form, the owner of the site will be emailed the details of the transaction, along with all the information they need to create the shirts and ship them.

I have a few questions:
Is this fairly straight forward to accomplish in general with html, php, js, (or whatever languages are necessary) and paypal? Also, can it be relatively easily integrated into modx?

Is the way I described above the best way to do this? Or does anyone have a better/more efficient way to accomplish this? Obviously, no full fledged shopping integration is needed, so I thought this may be the best way.

Anyone that has a suggestion or answers for me, it's much appreciated....as the client is all over me for an answer on this.

Thanks !

I am rather fond of this http://simplecartjs.org/

Quote from: sottwell at Nov 06, 2012, 12:19 PM

I am rather fond of this http://simplecartjs.org/

Thanks susan. That looks pretty cool. I was only able to look at it breifly, as I'm at my day job still, but is it possible to let the customer choose a custom amount of items (such as a particular church wanting to order 42 shirts and another wanting to order 128) and then have the calculation done by the site and the total amount shown to the customer, which is then payable via paypal?

Looked at simplecart this evening. I did not see how to accomplish what I needed to, but it's been a long day and I may have missed it.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or has anyone done something similar with simplecart?