Integration into current website. Is it possible!?

[Goobz]

Quick question.

I have been using Zen-Cart for years. I have a colleague who wants to bring a store to his website. I am trying to push Zen-Cart, however, he doesn't want to rebuild the whole store & change the layout.

I've seen some other SC's that have the ability to put a "send to cart now" style button on the existing website, and integrate the cart with something like <?php addtocart(15); ?>.

Does Zen-Cart have the ability to do anything like this!?

[stevesh]

Short answer, no. It's been done but you can run into sessions problems by switching between Zencart and non-zencart pages.

Maybe you could do a quick mock-up of a Zencart installation that looks like his current site to show him what's possible.

[bobdog]

In the long run, you will be much happier with zen cart. It will take some effort but the payoff well exceeds your efforts.

Trust me, last week I took in a new client with "add to cart" buttons. The site in php, and the cart was perl script where you add html buttons. What a Pain! Whew! There is no admin section, no UPS calculate shipping, no reports to see what's going on, just miles of perl script and hand coding each add to cart button, quantities, manually inputting discounts, and so on.

I wish they were in zen cart!

[Goobz]

I didn't think there was!

Oh don't get me wrong! I am EXTREMELY happy with Zen-Cart over the last few years, and I have moved 5 or 6 clients into Zen-Cart commerce with the 99.9% exact same look and feel of their current site! They loved it in the long run!

Thanks for the quick help!