Comments on: PayPal options and Expression Engine’s Simple Commerce Module

By: ExpressionEngine Developer’s Toolbox - Smashing Magazine

ExpressionEngine Developer’s Toolbox - Smashing Magazine — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:24:23 +0000

[...] PayPal Options and ExpressionEngine’s Simple Commerce Module A tutorial on building a more flexible shopping cart than is possible with just the Simple Commerce Module. [...]

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:31:49 +0000

Glad you worked it out.

By: James Likeness

James Likeness — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 06:26:29 +0000

Got it sorted. Thanks for this tutorial, John!

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:42:42 +0000

Hi James, it’s pretty hard to say without seeing your site or any code.

By: James Likeness

James Likeness — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 05:23:27 +0000

I’m getting an error from PayPal when clicking on the Buy Now button, and I can’t for the life of me figure out where I’m going wrong. Here’s the error I’m receiving:

“The link you have used to enter the PayPal system contains an incorrectly formatted item amount.”

I have all of my prices formatted with a period rather than a comma, which I mention because a Google search on that error yields results of people saying that you need to have the separator set as a period.

Can anyone give me some help on this?

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:14:37 +0000

Hi Oliver, that sounds interesting. You’d probably be better posting a thread on the ExpressionEngine forums and include a link back to this article as a reference point as the comments section here isn’t really set up for posting too much code.

By: IC360

IC360 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:07:19 +0000

I have managed to use this great tutorial to create a Merchandise section for the 24HR GYM site (http://www.24hrgym.co.uk).
Some people have been asking how to change the code so that the dropdown menus just have product size or colour options, without including a price element.

I have managed to make products display Size and/or Colour option menus, so that buyers can choose what they want.
The next challenge is to change the Buy Now buttons to Add To Cart buttons, which will mean people can more that one item at the same time. I have I have a solution in mind for this.

Does anyone want to see the code?
Am I able to post the code here?

Oliver Cannell (IC360)

By: pab

pab — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:41:51 +0000

This is exactly what I’m looking for working on scm rigth now and I’m trying to figure this out with playa.

need to have 4 different sizes and 2 color varitations.

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By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:13:14 +0000

Bit hard to say without seeing your code but it looks like you’ve got more than just the code to output an option inside your loop.