Digital download cart?
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Hey, long time reader, 36,078th time caller.
Have any of you gorgeous fucks got personal recommendations for shopping cart solutions for the delivery of digital content?
I'm particularly interested in the ability to create unique identifiers within the product to be delivered.
I'm only aware of http://pulleyapp.com/ , which sadly doesn't yet support the above feature.
I humbly submit my query, thankyou.
- fowleryo0
try foxycart... does the downloadable content thing, but not sure if it fulfills all the other stuff you need.
- acescence0
what do you mean exactly by unique identifiers? watermark? what is the content?
- image/pdf/similar document.
A uniquely-named and numbered receipt, essentially.placeholder
- image/pdf/similar document.
- utopian0
Drupal is your friend...
http://drupal.orghttp://www.ubercart.org
Open source e-commerce shopping cart that fully integrates your online store with Drupal.- Please tell this is some kind of sick joke—I'd hoped to spend the rest of my life assiduously ignoring Drupal.placeholder
- Which is to say 'thank you' :)placeholder
- I take it that you
are not well versed in
basic programming...utopian - Good luck then:)utopian
- haha, thanks. No - more that Drupal's overkill for my needs here. I didn't specfiy that in my original query.placeholder
- placeholder0
I should perhaps add that I only need to sell 'one product' (each delivery of which is uniqely and verifiably modified) on-page for the moment, so am looking for something lightweight and hacky, I guess.
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Basically - people buy an 'invite', who then have emailed to them a copy, including (at the very least) some unique identifier, and (ideally) their name. This can be any format that allows me to at least tart things up from a base image, or whatever - be it gif, a pdf, etc.
I can think of loads of shitty ways this could be done without the sending of a personalised invite, quite easily - and I'm fine with that (just relying on a basic cart reference number, or something).
Just curious to know whether I can achieve something a bit better, without too much headfuck. A little headfuck's always a good thing though.
- placeholder0
..so, whilst a php img-writing bodge to an existing cart solution would be fine—some idiot-proof off the shelf solution like 'Pulley', coded by more competent people than I, would be preferable.
- acescence0
i'll go out on a limb here and say you're not going to find a cart that does that.
- acescence0
that said, there are plenty of carts out there that are extensible, so you can hook into the various stages of a purchase and run your own code when a purchase is executed, with access to the customer object, name, email address, etc.. i think that's the best you'll do.
- ooi, what carts do you prefer, if any? I've not been in this sphere since osCommerce :\placeholder
- placeholder0
Aye, I figured I'd be bodging something along the line if I pursue this route—I just hoped, after seeing the Pulley thing, there might be some easy option.
Digging through FoxyCart now, which appears to have a 'coupon' option which might be halƒway towards an elegant solution.
Thanks for all your input!
- brodster0
foxy cart is not free