Topic awaiting preservation: Store front but no ecommerce (Page 1 of 1)

A guy I go to school with wants to be able to quickly put together a store front so authenticated users can order items from an online catalog, but not actually purchase the item online. The order would then need to be able to be printed out in the warehouse for shipping. I know there are many precoded store fronts out there, but I don't know if they would work/look properly when the item isn't actually being sold online.

Anybody know of any decent packages out there that would do this easily enough so he doesn't need to go through the time for development of a backend for this?

Thanks

- Butcher -

We have used osCommerce reliably for years: http://www.oscommerce.com

I am a bit confused as to what you mean by "but not actually purchase the item online." I am assuming you mean that an actual credit card transaction is not processed. Otherwise it is the same as any other online storefront.

In the case where there is no credit card transaction that takes place: osCommerce will allow you to switch the transaction mode to "Test" instead of "Production", in which case the transaction made is not passed to an Authentication gateway such as Authorize.net. Additionally, if you did not want to have a credit card field, you could just hardcode a test cc # in a hidden field of the form that processes the order. That way they won't have to enter a cc #.

Not sure if this is what you mean...

Thanks Thumper

I guess I should have explained a little further. The site will be used to allow people from a state organization to order computer equipment online, but the equipment is being paid for under contract so no payment transaction needs to take place when the product is ordered. The interface is bassically needed so he can collect the orders and print them out in the wharehouse for shipping. When he asked me about this he was looking for a way to get a site up quickly if he actually wins the contract with the state, so I was looking for something that would give him the ordering/shipping info he needed without the development time.

- Butcher -

Virtually any store will do this for you with a minor modification. I'd take a look at some of the offerings out there and see which will work the best for your situation. Many I'm sure will have some option where you can probably bypass the authentication part or even set it up as a "check" or COD payment option that doesn't need to be validated.

Then you just need to hide some stuff in the HTML



.:[ Never resist a perfect moment ]:.

just to note, if you do use OSCommerce, it requires Globals to be turned "OFF". A lot of servers won't allow this so you have to use a custom php.ini file for it to use.

Later,

C:\

cpromt, what do you mean by globals?
register_globals = Off ?

actually, when i turn this off, then i get the error message:

Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory.

and when i turn this on, then nothing happens when i click on the continue button on step 2.

Grumble, yeah OSCommerce has to have register_globals off (or which ever one it is that is a bit of a sercurity risk LOL)

The server that I use for most sites has some instructions on this I think. I will check to see if I can find it.

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see if this will help
or maybe this

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Later,

C:\



(Edited by CPrompt on 11-26-2005 00:28)

(Edited by CPrompt on 11-26-2005 00:31)

thanks cprompt.

if it has to be off, then why do i get the error that it has to be on?

after searching through the forums, i found that the solution to the problem is to set:
register_long_arrays = On

not register_globals

sorry my bad. but I'm glad you got it working

Later,

C:\

not your bad, cprompt
actually i think this is a bug in the osc, since they forgot to check for register_long_arrays to be on.