Wednesday 27 October 2010 6:45:33 am

Seth,

Sounds like you need a plan. I suggest either installing ezwebin enabled default site to use as a reference or importing the eZ Webin packages to borrow from/use.

The shop functionality is still available even without ezwebin, just not all of it.

Cheers,

Heath

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Wednesday 27 October 2010 8:59:47 am

Hi Seth,

All e-commerce features still are here in eZ Publish Fuji - 4.4. The only thing is that the Webshop package is not available from the installation wizard anymore. Instead, you may want to use the Website Interface (ezwebin) package, or even eZ Flow. Those will bring you useful content classes like the "Product" one, handy for testing how this all works.

The new administration interface hides, by default, the Webshop tab. This can be fixed by

1. copying settings/siteaccess/<admin-siteaccess-name>/site.ini.append.php into settings/siteaccess/<admin-siteaccess-name>/menu.ini.append.php
2. Emptying the freshly created file, but the PHP tags and PHP comments markers
3. Adding the following content to it :

[TopAdminMenu]
Tabs[]=shop

Clear the caches (from the administration interface, unfold the right column first), and you should be all set.

In very short : as soon as a content class contains a "Price" attribute, all content objects, instances of this class, will behave as products, can be placed orders on, etc.

An alternative to using the built-in Webshop module is to use this great contribution from XRow :

http://projects.ez.no/xrowecommerce

Let us know how things go,
Cheers,

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Tuesday 02 November 2010 5:16:08 am

Hi Seth,

Ok, the doc is indeed poor in the xrowecommerce extension :( . I also spotted that it depends on ezwebin.

Indeed, adding a Price attribute to any content class turns all instances of this class into purchasable items. Absolutely all business logic (order management, basket handling, wish-list, transactions generally, etc ) is built into the core.

About visual usage of the webshop, if i remember correctly the plain_site package proposed all necessary artifacts for shopping thoroughly, from the front-end, from an end-user perspective. STarting from the full view of a purchasable object should display webshop-flavored buttons and links ("Add to basket", ..). It probably looks very ugly, but should give you/your frontend developer re-usable snippets of HTML and template code.

What version of eZ Publish are you running by the way ?

Cheers,

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Tuesday 02 November 2010 9:01:14 am

Hello Seth,

After working with eZ Publish 4.4 recently I strongly recommend the upgrade to eZ Publish 4.4

That said, I don't think that it (the upgrade) will change your commerce situation (re: easier or harder).

Cheers,

Heath

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Saturday 13 November 2010 12:49:48 am

Hi Seth,

Hope, you will find the things you are expecting. If not, I have one source, Ydeveloper.com that is working on Ecommerce development from couple of years and have expertise to create the type of Ecommerce features you need. I am giving you to refer this because I found some templates, designed and developed by Ydeveloper.com that you definitely like.

eCommerce Solutions | http://www.ydeveloper.com/portfolio.html

Regards,

Ydeveloper.com

http://www.ydeveloper.com/ecommerce-development.html