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Hi, I'm new here and I really like what I see so far from OpenCart...
I'm a big CodeIgniter fan and OpenCart seems to be built on the same values.

But to get to the point...

I want to create a 1-Product Landing Page with an order form on it.

It will look like this:

Page 1 (Landing Page):
The page loads and the single product is automatically added to the cart (behind the scenes)
Order form with personal details and address is displayed
Customer submits order form

Page 2:
Order summary is displayed
Customer chooses a payment method
Customer confirms order

I'm a fairly experienced PHP programmer so I think this shouldn't be too hard to do...

But I have no experience with OpenCart yet, so I'm hoping some
experienced OpenCart developers can point me in the right direction.

How can I best do this in OpenCart? Is this easy and self explanatory to do? Or are there some important things I should know and take into account?

It seems overkill to use a full-fledged CMS like OpenCart for one-item site. Wouldn't it be easier to code the website from scratch, rather than hack up OpenCart to fit your needs?

From a developers point of view yes, but if the OP hasn't much experience with creating websites they will struggle, and could leave massive security holes in their code

yes, but if they don't have much experience creating websites they will never manage to do such a massive rewrite of the code that their request would require.

Yeah I guess

Part of the reason I'm using OpenCart for this is because I like the system and want to get familiar with it. I was looking for an eCommerce solution that was built on a solid foundation/code base.. So that I can then build upon that. I'll probably make more use of OpenCart in the future, and make more mods as I build more stores.

I do have the experience to code a system from scratch. But I prefer to meddle with a system like OpenCart that has the added benefit of speeding up future eCommerce projects once you get familiar with it.

Also when I use OpenCart, the backend and the PSP integration is already taken care of. Saves me some work.

About the 1-Product mod, I've stripped the forms and fields down to the bare essentials, that was easy. What's left to do now is combine the functionality of guest_step_2 & guest_step_3 into one page, probably a bit less easy.

About adding a product to the cart automatically when I load guest_step_1... Does someone know of a good way to do this? I still have to figure this out...

The problem is, I can't make use of the necessary objects in the guest_step_1 controller file.

I want to do this: But that only works in the index.php file, not in the guest_step_1 controller file which is where I want this to happen.

Actually I sustain this idea.
1 page order form could be more then a good idea, because sometimes, even if I have 1000 products, I want to push one via a marketing campaign, so I want to bring the customer to my page, let him to order and later i can use other marketing tips to get back to order, but now in first phase I want to push him a product, without let him to order anything else.

lvalics wrote:Actually I sustain this idea.
1 page order form could be more then a good idea, because sometimes, even if I have 1000 products, I want to push one via a marketing campaign, so I want to bring the customer to my page, let him to order and later i can use other marketing tips to get back to order, but now in first phase I want to push him a product, without let him to order anything else.

Exactly, this! I can see the topic is old, but your comment is new, so I decided to chime in.

Having a 1-page OpenCart template allows you to bring the focus on one product only. A sort of a promotion of the product, if you wish. In this case removing all distractions and guiding the user to checkout is the main goal. That's what landing pages do, after all. Quick checkout is also crucial, because you don't to lose a potential customer just at the end of the process.

With all of this in mind, we developed ProductPage. It's a 1-page OpenCart theme/extension, which is built especially for marketing purposes and does the things that you mentioned. You can try the demo here: http://j.mp/18l0029

Have a great day!

You just get one customer for this :-) I will post my feedback, probably I will have.

I cannot test it because it will change my design of the page. I would like to have this module as a new page for specific product, not to change the theme of the site.
So for example, I choose product X, then I get an URL like this

http://www.domain.com/ppage/2/

where 2 is the product ID for example. The rest can be done from the Modules/Settings part, of course, there is pretty awesome.

So basically I do not want to kill my actual webpage, just add to it some custom product pages for special promotions.