adding zen cart to dreamweaver?

[mleaver]

I want to set up a cart for my DW site. How do I add a check out page? I've downloaded zen cart using the site tools, now I'm stumped. It looks like I have to build a new site with it? Thanx Marlee.

[stevel]

Zen Cart and osCommerce are self-contained sites (or sub-sites). If what you want is a simple shopping cart added to your existing site, there are a number of scripts that will do that, though I have not used them. There's also the PayPal Shopping Cart.

[stevel]

Marlee asked separately:
I also downloaded the oscommerce and have no preference. At site tools it asked for a script next and thats what threw me, as I want to use DW and it wasn't listed. So I setup the site first on osc, and then download the files in htdocs to DW to edit the template provided. Which ones do I need to download -index.html?

I don't know what the site tools install of osCommerce do - I suppose I should try it and see - but others have reported many problems from using that so I recommend against it.

My preference for installing osC is to:

1. Download the 2.2-MS2 distribution from oscommerce.com and unpack it somewhere on your PC. Keep this copy unchanged for reference.
2. Decide how you want the store to appear on your web site. Do you want the site home page to be the store, or do you want the store as a separate part of your site? If you want the home page to be the store, so in essence the store is your site, copy the contents of the "catalog" folder from the unpacked osC into the folder on your PC from where you will upload directly into htdocs. So, what was catalog/index.php in the distribution is htdocs/index.php on your site. If you want the store a separate part, decide what you want to call the folder (store, catalog, shop, whatever), create that folder in your local copy of your site and copy the contents of catalog into it.

3. Using Member Operations, create a MySQL database and database username/password.
4. Upload everything to your site.
5. Create a custom php.ini for your site that sets Register_Globals to be On. See sticky thread in this forum.
6. Open the uploaded /install folder (was /catalog/install originally) in a web browser. For example, if the store is the site, www.example.com/install
7. Follow the instructions.

[mleaver]

Hi Steve, Thanx for the help, getting up and running. I've switched to Osc from zen cart, almost Identical. Can't get my pictures to show on producting listing, either from browse or url. They work for everything else, I'm guessing a parameter is set wrong but I'm stumped.
Marleee.

[stevel]

Continued here (http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=59185).