Digital download cart?
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- 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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- placeholder0
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