Enable the order prints functions in PP?

rbl · December 8th, 2005, 09:59 AM

Hi!
From what I've read, there is a "shopping cart -> sent to print shop" feature coded in PP that was disabled at last minute because the print partner didn't come through.

Can any of the devs confirm this?
I have a customer that is a print shop and are interested in this. Is it functional, I mean, the cart and the process? If it is, how can it be enabled?

Thanks =)
Ricardo

Chuck S · December 8th, 2005, 10:19 AM

Hello I do not know the exact specifics here Michael may need to respond since he wrote it but I beleive any print customer if you look at the order template would need to be able to accept a form sent to them from us with the information.

rbl · December 8th, 2005, 10:32 AM

Not sure I follow you here Chuck... can you elaborate a bit please?

Chuck S · December 8th, 2005, 10:56 AM

Michael would need to respond as I beleive the code is unfinished photocart.tmpl and misc.php until we find a printer

rbl · December 9th, 2005, 02:07 PM

So Michael, can you please explain what's done and not?
Thanks =)

Michael P · December 9th, 2005, 02:42 PM

Well, the shopping cart portion is done; but we have no vendor who can handle our order submissions. So what would need to be done to finish it off is that a person would have to work with an order fulfillment place to determine where to submit the order to.

Once you have that vendor established, then you would modify orderprint.tmpl to submit the form to them which would contain the photo information.

Just as some background, most photo printing services have switched to an upload/print system because of various copyright issues which were raised by offering printing via POSTs. As such, it would require a one-on-one arrangement between a site and a provider to offer this kind of service.

rbl · December 9th, 2005, 03:56 PM

Thanks! =)
Since my client is a print shop and users would be submitting their photos to their site willingly (to print them), I think that there are no copyright issues here to be tackled.

I've played with a PP version that had a very rudimentary shopping cart, couldn't handle no more than one photo in the cart and the remove function didn't work. I don't know if my that version is outdated or not but I can't show it to my clients.
Is there any place where they can see the working part .. working? =) A demo of some sort?

shadowdancer36 · December 10th, 2005, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by rbl

Thanks! =)
Since my client is a print shop and users would be submitting their photos to their site willingly (to print them), I think that there are no copyright issues here to be tackled.

I've played with a PP version that had a very rudimentary shopping cart, couldn't handle no more than one photo in the cart and the remove function didn't work. I don't know if my that version is outdated or not but I can't show it to my clients.
Is there any place where they can see the working part .. working? =) A demo of some sort?

I would like to see this myself. Any sort of purchasing per picture shown would be great. Is it a way to tie it in with the Paypal feature thats within Vbull?

donwe123 · December 18th, 2005, 06:06 AM

I think Costco uses Snapfish to accomplish this.

rbl · December 18th, 2005, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by shadowdancer36

Is it a way to tie it in with the Paypal feature thats within Vbull?

I don't think that's possible.

shadowdancer36 · December 18th, 2005, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael P

Once you have that vendor established, then you would modify orderprint.tmpl to submit the form to them which would contain the photo information.

So is everything thats needed in the orderprint template? Is it another php file that runs these templates? More details would be nice. Maybe I can run it by my printer and his programmers.

rbl · December 18th, 2005, 04:10 PM

From what I could see, the code is still somewhat incomplete. In fact I just added a totally different shopping cart script to it.

Chuck S · December 18th, 2005, 04:15 PM

As Michael stated the code is all there EXCEPT the part to actually sent the data somewhere else.

Basically the form is missing.

rbl · December 18th, 2005, 04:25 PM

Have you tried it, Chuck? Like I saidhere, what I've seen was very rudimentary. The cart couldn't handle more than one photo at a time, you couldn't remove any photo already there among other things.

You have tried something a little more complete and it's public, please point me to it.

Chuck S · December 18th, 2005, 04:43 PM

Nope sorry never played with it cause I have never had a reason too since it is an imcomplete feature.

shadowdancer36 · December 18th, 2005, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by rbl

From what I could see, the code is still somewhat incomplete. In fact I just added a totally different shopping cart script to it.

RBL Do mind sharing how your went about doing this? Also, do you think the next update will include these functions Chuck? It's a tease to see the option there, but not functional. Actually it's retarded (lol) Any programmers out here care to complete this? I'll payyyyyy

Chuck S · December 18th, 2005, 10:06 PM

The next update will most likely not have any completion on this issue unless we can find a print partner.

erikwithak25 · January 19th, 2006, 12:43 PM

I am switching from Gallery to Photopost and the open-source Gallery uses Shutterfly to handle ordering prints. Have you guys thought about them? Since their code is open source, most of your homework has already been done for you. That would be a nice feature.