Changing 'Buy' button to a link

[timjbart]

Hi,

I want to use Zen Cart to be an online catalogue, but instead of using the Shopping Cart, I want a button on each product page where I can specify a certain link.

So, if someone is interested in the product, they can click a 'More Info' button that acts as a hyperlink and takes them to an off-site address.

Is it possible to change the way the 'Buy' button behaves? Where about is the code located in Zen?

Thanks

[kobra]

So if you send them elsewhere and change your buy button how will they be able to buy?

[timjbart]

So if you send them elsewhere and change your buy button how will they be able to buy?

I will be redirecting to an external booking site run by another company, with a code in the hyperlink which indicates the product being purchased.

[schoolboy]

This will require a lot of work - firstly, product info is displayed in many forms - each with its own template setup. For example, there's a template set that will return product info as a result of a search. There's a template set that displays featured products, and another that will display ALL products, and others that drill down into a product's full information. In each of these sets of templates, there are complicated calls to action off the database.

Next, there will be considerable work needed on the database itself - if it is to strip in dynamic data to build a url (or a query into a remote database).

I'm sure it's possible - but you'll probably have to hire someone here - it's a lot of work.

[timjbart]

Ok thanks for the info. I think for ease I'll just put a big image button in the description using html code, and disable the shopping cart.

Not as slick as using the built in buttons in zen cart though