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Dual Cart Amazon Associates

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2011 2:29 pm
by crazypetfood
Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of converting opencart into a dual cart amazon / normal cart, so far I have done..

I have modified a theme to work with changes to the core files and database. and template This new site detects if you enable Amazon in the admin, if you do it disables a lot of the standard cart features from the admin and client side of things.

For every product you have an amazon enable switch (yes / no) you also have the ASIN. The end result is now a cart that can work with both amazon and non amazon products, take a sneak peek before I go live. http://www.crazypetfood.com

You will see a more information button that takes you to the product view, then a buy from amazon button for the enables products. At the moment only frozen meats are buy now / add to cart (normal cart)

There are still a few bits to sort out, I thought I would keep you posted. I would love to one day add this to vqmod, but so far it is problematic with regard to the DB changes.

More soon :)

Re: my amazon conversion

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:32 pm
by crazypetfood
Tweaking and making the site more seo friendly, also optimising a lot of the files.

Re: Dual Cart Amazon Associates

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 4:02 pm
by crazypetfood
Going to soon start adding more to the admin side of things and what the user see's.

Amazon locale (.com/ .co.uk / .whatever amazon does)
Amazon ID

I would like to figure out how to get live price feeds, from what I know it is via an XML feed that needs to be parsed and then the relevant bits taken out.

If I try to implement this it would mean a bit of processing via a cron job or similar. for now I have not figured out how to get this to work, so prices are still "guide Prices"

The other thing I want to try an figure out is how to add this to a commercial VQmod one day, the database additions are problematic, maybe someone who know how to do this can let me know?