Ecommerce still impossible in MODX

Whaaaaaaa? O_o

I got ecom up and running in MODx in three days. Usually things take longer, but it's not Revo's fault I have CSS OCD. It's not out of the box, of course, but if you wanted that, you'll need to grab that whale known as Drupal. Revo is the only product I've seen that lets you completely customize the code output. Good code = no need for SEO.

jhewak, it doesn't sound like you're using Template Variables (TVs) for different parts of the content entry. Clients should never have to touch HTML IMO. If it takes more than a couple of minutes to add a new product then it's too long (assuming copy is already written and images/videos have been gathered and organized).

I suspect you'd need a different Template with their own set of TVs for each "class" of product type. I would also recommend looking at MIGX as suggested earlier, though I don't personally have extensive experience with it.

Thank you gentlemen. I have been asked to do something like this:
http://www.frontrowsport.com/pages/niagaranorth-2012.html

I am not a coder, but I did make this site work: http://www.breakawaydistributing.com/

So is this small ecommerce site within my grasp - or do I exceed my reach?

Would it be better in Wordpress?

btw rthrash, they are tvs but if the images aren't the right dimensions, it breaks the page. At min they need to know Photoshop and ftp.


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There are various ways that you could resize the images for them when they are saved, though it might distort some images if the aspect ratio is off.


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@jhewak
For your images here are a couple options:

Go into the TVs Output Options. If you have selected Image as output you can set the CSS styles. If you have your container DIV at locked width and height you can just enter this in your styles box:



and that will form the image to the box. Like BobRay said though it can distort if the ratio is way off. As long as it is pretty close it will work and is simple for the end user because it doesn't matter what size the file is they upload. (although I have noticed page lag when I have tried very high res images with this method)

Also it is not hard to edit photos you don't need photoshop. Check out this awesome freeby www.photoscape.org
It allows you to batch edit photos to all sorts of parameters. My fav is longest length. Weird interface but very powerful tool.

The other option is to use phpThumbOf. I did that for a image based sub menu system and it worked great. In my use I dropped it into wayfinder and used an image TV with default output (so it outputs the path only). phpThumbOf can crop and span and do some sweet sizing options. Google for full parameters.

Here is part of the call I used in that case(albumLink being my menu image TV in this case):


PS the zc is for Zoom Cropping and as long as the main content isn't too far from the set ratio it will retain the important parts of the image.

Cheers! [ed. note: eric.swd last edited this post 11 years, 11 months ago.]

Quote from: andrew.gates at May 23, 2012, 04:55 PM

I got ecom up and running in MODx in three days

Hi Andrew,
Could you expand on this a little? I'd be interested to know your approach.
Cheers

I've been looking for a decent ecommerce solution for some time now and have a number of projects getting closer. Ideally I'd use MODX but I don't really see a prominent cart option, additionally I don't want to manage the products in the resource tree and I'm not confident enough to take on the CMPS at this stage.

My main considerations at the moment are:

Opencart - Looks really nice but from the brief play I had with it I'm not sure how much I would enjoy working with it. Customisation looks like it could get a bit hacky.

GoCart - Built on codeigniter, I'm leaning towards this at the moment, it looks promising. I just need to spend some time with it.

Expression Engine - Not free but by most accounts worth the cost. This is quite appealing if it means fewer headaches. I've not used EE before though.

I recently saw an ecommerce site built with silverstripe, It looked very good. Again, I have no experience with this one.

drupal, wordpress, magento, joomla aren't options


I'd be interested to hear opinions on this, it would be good to get a modxer's point of view.
[ed. note: bobwal last edited this post 11 years, 9 months ago.]

Had some one used this?:

Magento Store Product Lister 1.3.0-pl
http://modx.com/extras/package/magentostoreproductlister

what do you think?
is easy or complicated?
with this extra is possible to link 100% Magento with revo, or there are things that are not possible?

any review please?

THANK YOU!

MiniShop2 might be worth looking into although the Russian makes it awkward for non-Russian speakers, and there's also SimpleCart, which while not free seems to be very "possible".

http://garretoverstreet.com/support/developers/cms/modx/revolution/add-ons/minishop2/#about-start
http://www.modxsimplecart.com/

Quote from: Ysanmiguel at Dec 30, 2013, 10:57 PM

Had some one used this?:

Magento Store Product Lister 1.3.0-pl
http://modx.com/extras/package/magentostoreproductlister

what do you think?
is easy or complicated?
with this extra is possible to link 100% Magento with revo, or there are things that are not possible?

any review please?

THANK YOU!

This snippet only allows product filtering and listing, its one way only it just pulls from Magento, it doesn't do login or customer creation, nor does it implement any bridge code to hook into Magento's event system, its just a simple product lister.