Post by GK-1 » Thu Dec 25, 2014 5:35 pm

Hello

I would like to set up an external Web page with an add to cart button to my opencart webshop.
So a little bit more than just a link here..

any built in solution? Or maybe extension?

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Post by Selective555 » Thu Dec 25, 2014 11:56 pm

My first thought would be to use frames in html.

With frames, you have two or more web pages on the same page, and you can set links in one page to what you see on the other page.

Other words, you could create a new opencart page in your shop, that has a frame as the body, then inside the frame could be your external web page, with script to make it work with the opencart shop.

Do you know how to write web script?

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Post by GK-1 » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:14 am

Thank you for your answer.
I am not familiar with web script. Iframes and frames and html in general I know well enough.
Do you mean iframes perhaps?

I how ever need a fully functional "add to cart"-button that can be put on any Web page.
a free blog page for instance. But perhaps this can be done with iframe actually.

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Post by Selective555 » Fri Dec 26, 2014 1:39 am

I am familiar with html and web script, but like you, I'm very new to opencart and using a shopping cart system, so I know it can be done by using frames. I think frames and iframes are the same thing. It's been about 8 years since I messed with frames, but if you had a completely different web site, and you wanted to make them work together, I think you could through using frames.

So now we would have to ask ourselves how the shopping cart would work, and would it create any security risks for the shop. This I don't know.

Another option would also be to embed an item page into another web site, like a blog or something.

Even better, if we could create embed postings of our items for ourselves and others to post on other web sites. If someone looks at an item page, and there were an embed option for people to use to post it somewhere.

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Post by GK-1 » Fri Dec 26, 2014 2:35 am

Frames and iframes are different.
I dont mean to put anything else than add to cart. The cart itself would be on the actual opencart web page.
from the customers perspective the buying or putting in a basket would happen a another page.

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