Shopping Carts

[Tony Hardy]

I'm using a pre-bought ThemeForest template for my cousin's business and there's the hint of a shopping cart on it, but I can't find a way to make it work. What's the usual process here?

This is the site I'm currently working on; Home

Cheers everyone.

[djb]

What’s the name of the theme? It might be you have to install an additional plugin.

[Tony Hardy]

It's called Chocolate and Coffee I think.
I've had a dig around on theme forest in the comments and stuff, and emailed the designer so hopefully I'll just have to wait.
It's just an HTML/PHP template, not Wordpress unfortunately :(

[djb]

I think you’ll have to add a PHP shopping cart to it yourself then.

Maybe someone (Corrosive) can give you some pointers as it’s not something I’ve done before with a non-database website.

You can always cheat and use Paypal as a shopping cart and just add paypal buttons though.

[Tony Hardy]

If I cheated and used Paypal would the items in the cart still mount up? Or would you have to go through and buy each item seperately? I might just do that.

But if anyone can give any advice about a simple PHP cart that'd be excellent. I'd also like to keep it within the theme if possible.

[djb]

You can have a PayPal shopping cart but it will be in a separate window to your website. You can add things and then return to the website to continue shopping. But yes, a cart on the actual website would be much neater.

[Tony Hardy]

Yeah I think it'd be much neater too.
Hopefully Corrosive will peek into this thread and offer a helping hand :)
Cheers for the advice David.

[Corrosive]

Hi Tony

Have you looked at something like; Modern CSS + XHTML Ecommerce :: FoxyCart.com at all? I know it is some $$s per month but have heard good things about it and gives a neat, 1 page checkout to help stop abandoned carts. Kind of a half-way house between full e-comm and Paypal 'Add to Cart' buttons.

BTW, cannot get your site to load for love nor money!

[Tony Hardy]

I haven't seen anything like that before. It's not my business, so I'd have to run it by the other channels.
I also can't get the site to load? It was there earlier toady. Weird.

[Corrosive]

I haven't seen anything like that before. It's not my business, so I'd have to run it by the other channels.
I also can't get the site to load? It was there earlier toady. Weird.

It has just loaded for me, 5th attempt and left for about 45 seconds. Might be a hosting issue to be honest.