Miscellaneous Hacks - CartPlog: The Lite PayPal Shopping Cart

CartPlog: The Lite PayPal Shopping Cart

CartPlog Lite is a shopping cart for PayPal payments. CartPlog Lite allows for categories, products, and options, and it keeps track of transactions by utilizing the PayPal IPN interface. The installation takes care of phrases, templates, tables, etcetera. Just follow the README.txt file for installation.

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This thread is organized as follows:

• Post1 contains this here release.
• Post2 contains other information.

Fine Print: see license agreement, no redistribution, copyright retained in full, right reserved to uncheck support box.

Requirements: vB 3.6.8+ (not tested on earlier versions)

Does it work on vB 3.5 and 3.6? See the requirements.

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by dancue

Diesel, the shipping information will be sent to you via e-mail. It will be the shipping e-mail they have used on their paypal account.

On a side note, I've done some minor changes to improve the cart.

These include the following:

• Clickable Thumbs - When on the index page they will redirect you to the product info. When clicked again in the product info page it will redirect you to a larger size image.
• A second set of options. Haven't figured out how to display the chosen 2nd set of options during the checkout process, but I believe it will save it to the database.
• There is a limit to how many products are displayed under the popular products column. I set it to 5.
• There is a limit of 15 products displayed on the index.
• "$" symbols and "," are used for Currency.
• When viewing a category list it is now sorted by alphabetical order.

Here are the files. If you want these changes just upload them.

To the Author:
If this is not permitted, I apologize. Let me know so I can take them off.


I really feel like this mod has serious potential. I am not a coder, I was just very motivated to figure these things out. If anyone is willing to help me to improve this cart just reply to this thread or pm me. Together we can make this a better, very useful mod.

That was a good try, I uploaded the two files, but they didn't work. I do have a question though if you are still using the files, where is the code you put in for clickable thumbs. I compared the code with the original files and all i can see is the option 2 code.

doug

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by Bakushan

getting an error now... (with the dancue version)

Warning: array_map() [function.array-map]: Argument #2 should be an array in /cartplog.php on line 547

Yea, there are errors in the code........I tried to repair them and force the upgrade in mysql, but no go.

[GTX2]

Originally Posted by ilanyon

Hi all,
Great mod! Anyone know how I might go about adding shipping/postage costs as a mandatory part of the checkout process?

Cheers and thanks,

Ian

Same question here....
is there any way of adding shipping costs to the order?
I know i can add directly in the product price, but then the product looks very expensive...
i really want to add shipping costs at the end, when finalizing order....

anyone?

[wickedstangs]

does this work on 3.8.1?

[hotwheels]

Yes it works on 3.8.1.......and good luck with the shipping thing. Your best luck maybe to try to set up a shipping block within paypal, so that after the item is purchased, they user will have to type in the shipping price. I haven't really messed with that part yet, but i have been messing with this program.

Sadly, this is another one of those mods that should be in the modification graveyard, but since it was written by a mod, it still get's to stay alive. This program is really really basic and doesn't give you allot of options to work with. It isn't supported, and if you read earlier posts, the support that was given, wasn't very friendly. So, unless you know allot about php coding, i would not use this program. Maybe try zencart or oscommerce and remember that those programs aren't vbulletin friendly, but they will atleast do what you are looking for.

This would have been a great program had the original developer continued on with a pro version.

[hotwheels]

Some of the things i have noticed wrong with this program: Images aren't clickable, so the thumbnail size is what it is, unless you add height and width to the template you want to show a larger image of.

You only have one option set, so you can set size or colors, but nothing else.

There is no shipping option with this, but you maybe able to add the shipping code from paypal in the proper template. But you will have to know what the shipping is going to be for all of your items, almost like flat rate shipping.

Your items count doesn't work right. I have one category that only has 2 products in it, but it show's that there are 9 items in it.

You can't set permissions, the cart is either turned on for members or it's off, and if you have guest's floating your site, they will not be able to see the cart at all. You can remove the code as suggested earlier, but anyone can purchase from your store and you may not know who it is that ordered, and it may turn out to be false purchase's made.

I have spent many hours trying to figure out how to add clickable image code to the php, but i am not very good at coding, so i am stuck with out of proportion images.

Anyways, those are just a few of the things i have found that need work on this mod and had someone with a bit more coding skill worked with this, it would have been a great addition for vbulletin.

[ArnyVee]

So, there isn't an updated version of this mod? Or, a pro version of this mod? It's working, but still has lots of room for improvement?

So, my question is... why can't someone take this same mod over and just 'take it to the next level'?

[UDPride]

In my honest opinion, Photopost are the ones we need to be pressuring. I have their Classifeds product and it integrates with VB beautifully, incorporates Paypal, auction bidding, photos, asking prices, everything. The only thing its missing is adding custom fields chosen by the buyer like size or color and a proper taxing API. They have 95% of it done.

Im trying to use it to sell items that are more merchandise and not "single one-off items" and while works okay as an ebay replacement, it should really be a commerce replacement. Why go to the trouble to make it 95% of what it could be when the last 5% would quintuple your sales. Everybody is clamoring for this.

[jim doodle]

I really liked and probably will like the GEEKmart

http://www.thevbgeek.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25
http://www.thevbgeek.com/geekmart.php

I think they should get this mod sorted, i've always been impressed with their mods!

Fully integrated VB shop

[vibedream]

does working on vb3.8?