Hi All. I am building a dynamic site for a stationery company, essentially an online catalogue. I have tried to find a good plugin for a shopping cart but most of them seem to be for static single page/single item sites, and don't allow dynamic Add To Cart buttons (when inserting thew button they want information specific to the product on that page, but if the page is dynamicly built..you see where I am going with this!) Can anyone recommend one? I am up against the clock on this one, as i have a HUGE database to get online and am stuck on this cart business. Hopefully I have explained my needs correctly. Thanks guys and gals.

It's pretty straight forward to build your own shopping cart using asp session variables (or cookies if u prefer).

Example:
There are 3 required pages
1-Catalogue
2-AddToCart
3-Cart

1-Catalouge is essentially a list of links of the form addToCart.asp?prodId=101
2-AddToCart sets Session("cart" = Session("cart" PLUS ,101 (you end up with something like: 101,102,110,157)
3-Cart displays products from database where prodId IN Session("cart" (You can sum up all the prices in this recordset too)

Then a checkout button submits the price, and anything else you may need via hidden form fields to your payment company.

As for a plugin I haven't used any myself but try looking here www.aspin.com/home/webapps/shopping/carts

Edited by - mbisme on 08 Jul 2005 13:49:37

Thanks for the responce, Michael. Unfortunately I know s**t about programming, I let Dreamweaver do all the work so coding this thing myself was out for the start. I had a look through the offerings at the link you sent and there are some hopefuls there. Thanks again.

Could have a look at www.interaktonline.com/Products/Dreamweaver-Extensions/MXKart/Overview/
or www.webassist.com/
or charon.co.uk


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Edited by - ganseki on 09 Jul 2005 01:12:29

I have used CandyPress store a lot in the past and have always been chuffed with it. It can operate in catalogue only mode too. Check out www.candypress.com/CPmain/default.asp




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Thanks guys. I went with WA eCart. Cheers