I have some questions about how Zen Cart works

[immersive]

I'm just starting to build an online store and was wondering if Zen Cart will do what I need.

1. Pages that are not within the Zen Cart system (my own html pages) at www.site.com.
2. The cart setup at www.site.com/cart

The items need to be listed on my own html pages outside of the Zen Cart system. By using an added html code or something. When they click the "Add to cart" button on any of the items, they will be forwarded to www.site.com/cart and the item will be added to the cart. Then they would either proceed with checkout or press continue shopping and it would take them back to www.site.com. So basically be able to add items to the cart from an html code on a page that isn't in the same php system/thing as Zen Cart.

There is an example of this done here: http://www.rosettastone.com/en/indiv...re+Information
They are using an added html code to add the item to the shopping cart.

Can this be done with Zen Cart? Thank you for helping me out with this one!

[Kim]

Zen Cart is not designed to be operated in that manner.

[immersive]

Ok thank you. Can you point me to something that is?

[Kim]

While it would be some work to transfer all of your html pages to Zen Cart, in the long run you would be much better off. Zen Cart is built on the fly using the information from the database and that means much less maintenance to add/change/move products around.

[immersive]

While it would be some work to transfer all of your html pages to Zen Cart, in the long run you would be much better off. Zen Cart is built on the fly using the information from the database and that means much less maintenance to add/change/move products around.

I understand that. But I feel limited in what I can do using the php template system. I'm now looking at other cart solutions because of this. It seems like a very easy thing compared to what Zen Cart does. So I'd think they would have a strip down option to allow you to do this.

[Merlinpa1969]

immersive,
what cant be done in the zc templates?

you are only limited by your imagination,

and if you have more than a few products updating html each time there is a product change is gonna suck