I know this is an odd question, and I've told the client I'm somewhat sure this cannot be done - but I wanted to ask and be 100% sure.
Basically, they wanted a shopping cart set up for their site. We had discussed using ZenCart, but when they found out how much getting a secure server and a merchant account would cost, then had qualms - as they aren't selling anything major at all.
So they were getting set up with a custom-written database (that's already 90% finished) to use to sell the items, and the plan was to use Paypal. However, of *course* one of the people that helps decide things on the website suddenly decided he doesn't like Paypal, and doesn't want to use it.
Well, seeing as how the custom database is written, and 90% of the products are already in there, the company that's handling the design wants to know if there's a way to use ZenCart, but have it pull in all the information from the already-written database.
I told them I was pretty sure that they would have to set up ZenCart and put all the products in to the ZenCart database - there's just no way around it - but they wanted me to be sure of this.
Also, if they do choose to use ZenCart, they wanted ot know about the "Add to Cart" buttons that can be peppered throughout the site. The site is already 90% complete when the client decided they wanted to use ZenCart. Which, I already know, that if the end user goes shopping and "steps away" from the cart to return to the static site, if they go back to the cart they lose everything (if ZenCart is put in as an "add on" - which it will be, at this point). We decided to circumvent this issue by having the site look for cookies placed by ZenCart and carrying it through every page the end user visits, so if they return they don't lose anything.
So they did a little research, and found that there's something you can place on the "search results" page that will allow people to just add something to the cart - but they don't know how well it works. Would anyone have information on that?
I'd really appreciate any help anyone could give :) Thanks!
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