Perhaps a dumb list of questions, but.....

[baltimorestreetmods]

If you are looking for a bit more specific, we can look at the precut stripes for 05 Ford Mustang....... 1) Colors. WE carry 19 different colors, 15 of which are the same price, and 4 that are a different price. We are looking to get these into one dropdown menu, with an attached upcharge for those 4 colors. 2) hood type - there are about a dozen hoods on the market for this vehicle. 3) spoiler type - again, about a dozen different spoilers for this car. 4) optional pieces - any other body modifications that the customer might feel we need to know to make the appropriate kit. This would be a text box they can type in. 5) hood scoop - there are several hood scoops on the market that fit this vehicle. 6) transfer tape - do you want this kit transfer taped for installation? (yes/no)

The reason we are looking to set up something more than the current paypal shopping cart system is that 1) they do not allow for items of two different prices to be listed in one dropdown, making our pages twice as long and 2) we can only list up to four options.

In a previous post, I was told this was an option, and on the sample page I can see it is set up for this.

What I cannot see is how my system needs to be configured so that I can use zen-cart on my current system and how to write the shooping cart html to accomodate these selections.

[baltimorestreetmods]

http://www.zen-cart.net/demo/index.p...products_id=92

Yes, cool !!!! That is what we wan to do. Where within the program do I go to start setting this up, and can I move this html into my current site, or do I hae to rewrite the site within zen-cart to make it work?

[baltimorestreetmods]

Yes, cool !!!! That is what we wan to do. Where within the program do I go to start setting this up, and can I move this html into my current site, or do I hae to rewrite the site within zen-cart to make it work?

So am I just going to be completely lost without the book? How were people doing it before the book?

I have been programming my own site for three years now, and have been banging my head against this all day - install seemed easy enough, but now for hours I have gotten nowhere.....

[misty]

can I move this html into my current site, or do I hae to rewrite the site within zen-cart to make it work?

ZenCart is written in php NOT html...integrating into your existing
site will take longer that just transferring products into zencart,
which has all options to configure as your requests,
as shown in my original post...forum members here will help you
on your way, and there is a wealth of info already available
using SEARCH Button, tutorials/ FAQ and wikki..(links at top of page here)
Have used
zencart for 3 years now..long before book was written/published..
Patience is required though...

[kobra]

I cannot even see where to set up specific shopping cart html......... most of this seems to be geared more toward building a site, which I already have. I just need to integrate a shopping cart system

Where within the program do I go to start setting this up, and can I move this html into my current site, or do I hae to rewrite the site within zen-cart to make it work?

Agree with misty - on several points - This is a php <serverside> application and there is no html page to code per se' - aditionally, Zen Cart is not modular and the pieces that you want can not be moved inside a html layout.

You must make Zen Cart look like your site and in your case I suggest that you concentrate on the functionality first to see if you can get what you want and not worry about what it looks like....will it do what you need first?

In the end your current site will get scrapped

[baltimorestreetmods]

Agree with misty - on several points - This is a php <serverside> application and there is no html page to code per se' - aditionally, Zen Cart is not modular and the pieces that you want can not be moved inside a html layout.

You must make Zen Cart look like your site and in your case I suggest that you concentrate on the functionality first to see if you can get what you want and not worry about what it looks like....will it do what you need first?

In the end your current site will get scrapped

Yes, I came to this realization...... right now I am just trying to get to the zencart admin page, for which I just keep getting a blank page. I can get into my servers phpmyadmin page (which is similar) but i cannot access any zencart related pages other then the readme files. I have also noticed that my server (yahoo.com) will not let me upload the .htaccess files from either the admin file or the admin/includes/ file. It keeps spitting them back as invalid file extensions.

[baltimorestreetmods]

ZenCart is written in php NOT html...integrating into your existing
site will take longer that just transferring products into zencart,
which has all options to configure as your requests,
as shown in my original post...forum members here will help you
on your way, and there is a wealth of info already available
using SEARCH Button, tutorials/ FAQ and wikki..(links at top of page here)
Have used
zencart for 3 years now..long before book was written/published..
Patience is required though...

ya know, I am so brain numb right now, but i finaly get this - I am thinking in html, and trying to set up php.

My current problem is simple to explain, but seems difficult to resolve - I cannot access my admin page, I keep getting a blank page.

[kobra]

I have also noticed that my server (yahoo.com) will not let me upload the .htaccess files from either the admin file or the admin/includes/ file. It keeps spitting them back as invalid file extensions.

You can try renaiming them locally to htaccess.txt and FTP'in them up and change them there to .htaccess

If a win server I do not think that they are useful though

[baltimorestreetmods]

soooooo......... don't ask me what i did differently, but i removed all files, reloaded and re-ran the setup...... I"M IN!!!!

now i just have to figure out what the heck to do now.

[baltimorestreetmods]

nowI can see that I can indeed do what I need to do with this, it's just gonna make a mess out of eBay, but I will cross that bridge when I get to it.

Safe to assume I should wait for hte book, then start? Looks like I need to set up a product list first, am I deciphering this correctly?

How do I start the product inventory?

You guys have been awesome through this - in the end, i still don't know what I finally did right.