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

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.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:01:25 +0000

As far as i can see as im testing this, the main problem is that when using Playa it is not adding all the options to 1 drop down, rather repeating itself with a drop down and button for each option..

see http://www.mcfarlane.etheya.com/shop/list/category/Portfolio%202008/

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:57:27 +0000

It will depend on what sort of features are required for the site. If a record of purchases inside EE is required, then you’d use SCM. SCM also makes it easy to bulk edit prices.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:52:00 +0000

Thanks for that, do you think its also important to use the SCM or just skip that out.. again its one more thing that the client needs to add in to the CMS i guess..

By: John Faulds

John Faulds — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:32:12 +0000

Yeah, there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work with Playa as well; you just need something to create the relationships.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:22:05 +0000

Do you think you could do a similar thing to this using Playa rather than the extension you have used.. im wondering if that will work as well? Im going to give it a go, but maybe it wont work… be interesting if it does.