flash shopping cart
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- v3nt
doing a small flash site where people can choose an item, then quantity, personal details - address, c.card info...
what is the easiest way to do this. paypal tries to get you to use their logos and stuff, and all the other options look v.overcomplicated!
i imagined it would be simpler?
all you need to send to the payment service is the amount & bank details? and then the shipping details goes to the owner of the site.
know of any 'muppet proof' solutions? cheers. dan.
- Seph0
Have you looked at Macromedia Flex?
- mr_flaco0
HEFTY pricetag on Flex...
Im still researching a solution myself - will post when I choose one.
- Neuarmy0
yea, please post that shit mr_flaco, i'm interested...
- unfittoprint0
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
the trick is to make the php code to communicate with flash every step.
Never had a problem doing it for forums, event calendars, blog by resusing some of the examples from this book. And since they've also have a shopping cart one, I don't think that would be a problem.
Instead of printing the results to an html format, you'll be using LoadVars back and forth...
- mr_flaco0
Yes definitely using php and mySQL, trying to figure out who to send the CC transactions to - all that gateway stuff I'm not quite up to speed on yet.
- unfittoprint0
the CC transaction part might be a bitch.
Regarding that, the implementation of CC transactions is much harder [unfortunately], there's a lot of bureocracy [in comparison to the US] and the usage of CC is not as widespread as in your country. A permit might be needed?But the the rest, is just a question of playing with the db, storing the user's purchases, CC info, items looked,....