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tutorials:magento [2012/02/17 14:24] mark [Pushing the RTD Design to Magento Cart] |
tutorials:magento [2012/02/18 08:18] (current) mark [Design It Now Button] |
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| - | ===== Magento Cart iwth RealTimeDesigner ===== | + | ===== Magento Cart with RealTimeDesigner ===== |
| Magento Cart is a very adaptable, open source ecommerce shopping cart platform that is widely used and well supported by a large community. Magento is especially adapted to an ecommerce site with a large array of products. Magento is written in PHP language and uses MYSQL database, the same platform as RTD itself. \\ | Magento Cart is a very adaptable, open source ecommerce shopping cart platform that is widely used and well supported by a large community. Magento is especially adapted to an ecommerce site with a large array of products. Magento is written in PHP language and uses MYSQL database, the same platform as RTD itself. \\ | ||
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| ==== Design It Now Button ==== | ==== Design It Now Button ==== | ||
| - | The first step to combining Magento and RTD is to insert a "Design It Now" button within your magento site. While this could be done by inserting a button image and HTML links for the RTD directly into your Magento product descriptions, we chose a bit more complicated method that creates a live link to your RTD products so that rather than manually copying and pasting the links, you can simply pick the product from a dropdown list and the link is grabbed via the RTD API. Our site contained an extensive array of products. A little bit more work up front means considerable time savings down the road. If your Magento product offering will be limited, perhaps the simpler, | + | The first step to combining Magento and RTD is to insert a "Design It Now" button within your magento site. The simplest way to do this is to insert a button image and HTML link for the RTD directly into your Magento product description. Because our site would have a large array of products, we chose a bit more complicated method that involves creating to attributes in magento. One attribute determines whether the product will be a "design online" type of product. The second attribute contains the external link for that product into RTD. This standardized our site so that the Design It Now button always appeared in the same location. Details for our method are below:\\ |
| - | manual link placement will be fine. Details for our method are here: | + | \\ |
| + | In Magento backend, create an Attribute Set for the special product type. Name the attribute set “Product Design Required”. Next, create 2 attributes as shown: | ||
| + | **Catalog > Manage Attributes > Add New Attribute** | ||
| + | == Attribute one: == | ||
| + | * Attribute name : Show “Design Online” button | ||
| + | * Attribute code: launchdesign | ||
| + | * Scope: Global | ||
| + | * Catalog Input Type for Store: Yes/No | ||
| + | * Values Required: Yes | ||
| + | * Visible on Product View Page on Front-end: Yes | ||
| + | * Used in Product Listing: Yes | ||
| + | == Attribute two: == | ||
| + | * Attribute name : Design Link | ||
| + | * Attribute code: design_link | ||
| + | * Scope: Global | ||
| + | * Catalog Input Type for Store: Text Field | ||
| + | * Values Required: No | ||
| + | * Visible on Product View Page on Front-end: Yes | ||
| + | * Used in Product Listing: Yes | ||
| + | Assign these attributes to Attribute Set. Now when you create new products, the attributes will be available for all products. | ||
| ==== Pushing the RTD Design to Magento Cart ==== | ==== Pushing the RTD Design to Magento Cart ==== | ||
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| The values are taken from the site designer you can find from line 78 to line 282.\\ | The values are taken from the site designer you can find from line 78 to line 282.\\ | ||
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| - | Next, we will group the information into a text to assign this variable value option for newly updated. From line 284. | + | Next, we will group the information into a text to assign this variable value option for newly updated. From line 284.\\ |
| / * START * All Fields MERGE /\\ | / * START * All Fields MERGE /\\ | ||
| - | $ opt ='';\\ | + | $ opt =' ';\\ |
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| Line 404 to remove the special characters, such characters will break the link information when updating the product to cart via URL\\ | Line 404 to remove the special characters, such characters will break the link information when updating the product to cart via URL\\ | ||
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| </ script>\\ | </ script>\\ | ||
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| - | If product not found on Magento site ,site will back to designer site.\\ | + | If product not found on Magento site, user will be directed back to designer site.\\ |
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| <script>alert("This product has expired OR We have no one.Please try again!");\\ | <script>alert("This product has expired OR We have no one.Please try again!");\\ | ||
| history.go(-1);\\ | history.go(-1);\\ | ||
| </script>\\ | </script>\\ | ||
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| + | Note\\ | ||
| ==== User Login ==== | ==== User Login ==== | ||
| The procedures above are adequate to complete RTD online design through Magento but does not address the issues encountered by Registered Users. If you have disabled this feature, nothing more is needed. If you desire to use the Registerred Users features of the RTD and Magento you should consider linking the login info for both. This gives returning visitors the ability to see what they bought before and recall previous designs. Without linking the logins, your users will be faced with a seperate login for each system which may prove clumbsy. To create the link for user logins you will need to install the following script. Be sure to edit the login credentials coded into the file to correspond with your RTD account. | The procedures above are adequate to complete RTD online design through Magento but does not address the issues encountered by Registered Users. If you have disabled this feature, nothing more is needed. If you desire to use the Registerred Users features of the RTD and Magento you should consider linking the login info for both. This gives returning visitors the ability to see what they bought before and recall previous designs. Without linking the logins, your users will be faced with a seperate login for each system which may prove clumbsy. To create the link for user logins you will need to install the following script. Be sure to edit the login credentials coded into the file to correspond with your RTD account. | ||
