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Using your own design with our Generic shopping
cart software
If you are not going to use one of our templates then you can
still use our shopping cart software and integrate it into your
own design,
or use it a basis for your new store by working from the Generic
Version. We've outlined the steps below for integrating
the software into
a layout and suggest going through the tutorial to
see how it all fits together.
The price is $149 for the Ecommerce
Plus Version. If you are not using Dreamweaver or Frontpage to
edit your site
then we recommend purchasing the
Dreamweaver version as it includes very little proprietary code.
How to integrate the Generic version
Each store page is made up of regular HTML wrapped around 5 include
lines so it's pretty simple to extract the includes from the Generic
version and paste them into an existing page. The existing page
will need to have the same name as the page that the includes were
copied from, so when copying them from cart.asp / cart.php they
should be pasted into a page called cart.asp / cart.php in the
existing site.
In total there are 8 main store pages:
- Affiliate
- Cart
- Categories
- Proddetail
- Products
- Search
- Sorry
- Thanks
- You can also set up an order status, order tracking and customer
login page
The include lines will look something like this for the ASP version
with the last line changing depending on the page:
<!--#include file="vsadmin/db_conn_open.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/includes.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/languagefile.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.asp"-->
<!--#include file="vsadmin/inc/inccart.asp"-->
... or for the PHP software:
<?php include "vsadmin/db_conn_open.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/includes.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/languagefile.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/incfunctions.php" ?>
<?php include "vsadmin/inc/inccart.php" ?>
Once those have all been copied over, you will also want to move
over the store folders, these will be vsadmin, prodimages and for
the ASP version, fpdb
Finally for the PHP version only, you will need to add a line
of code to the top of each page, this will go before the opening <HTML> tag
with absolutely no spaces before or after:
<?php
session_cache_limiter('none');
session_start();
ob_start(); ?>
NOTE
You will probably want to add a Doctype to the top of each page so
add the Doctype line
so the page looks something like this:
<?php
session_cache_limiter('none');
session_start();
ob_start(); ?><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML
4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html>
That's about is so it will now be possible to upload all the files
to your server, make the database connection and start adding products.
Note: The pages cart.asp / cart.php, affiliate.asp
/ affiliate.php and search .asp / search.php include forms so it's
best to allow
plenty of horizontal space for them.
Ecommerce Template Generic integration
If you would like us to take care of integrating
the Generic Version into an existing site then check out our offer
on
the Store
Tools Page. We can put all the lines in the
right places, upload the files and set the database connection for
you. That will leave you to add the products and categories and set
up your payment provider through the online control panel.
Purchase the Generic version
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Version
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Dreamweaver |
Frontpage |
| ASP Plus version for Windows
servers - $149 |
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| PHP Plus version
for Unix / Linux servers - $149 |
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