Has any one made an add-on that will allow visitors to purchase prints.
It would need to be able to work with a shopping cart and add multiple images then checkout with like paypal and maybe authorize.net then after payment was approved it would need to make an email (or upload to a remote ftp site) that combines the picture, buyers info name shipping, etc and other variables.
I know that someone on this forum was busy with thinking how this could be done (way back at the beginning of this forum ;)). I can't seem to find that topic anymore, so I guess 'development' has not continued, although I would also really like to have something like this. Together with wordpress and the shopping functionality some people are building over there, the ultimate web(p)log system would be complete :).
I saw something in my referrer log a while back, it clearly used Plogger integrated with some sort of shopping cart system. It was something like New Zealand golfing photographs or something. I'll see if I can find the link.
I'm the guy who implemented the cart system into plogger at photos.nsmg.com
Im suprised that it has't been done and would be happy to share the code i used. It's a very simple session based system, doesn't have any member based system in the backend.
The code is a bit hack-ish, and certainly isn't a plugin (i had to decipher code and insert parts which would allow me to achieve what i wanted) but i will be happy to upload a zipped format of the site so interested people can pick it up and run with it if they wanted to.
It's the weekend here currently, but look forward to some feedback once i get it up next week!
You can do it with a bit of fiddling around in the database and the gallery.php file. Add a new field in plogger_pictures (I named mine 'blurb') and type some stuff into it (html code is fine, and you could add shopping cart buttons this way too) then get it to display that field below the large image, in gallery.php (I've put mine above the comments)
Works ok if you don't have thousands of images in your gallery.
the fiddling in my code was to the gallery.php file, so the amount of file uploaded is irrelevant. It just changes the info dependant on the filename called.
I am certainly interested in this function, Plogger meets my demands completely except for the "order photos" functionality. Can I download your zipped code, acenz?
better yet - tell us where we can download it directly since you have many of us interested.. also is this simply an order form or does it output to a 3rd party printing service?
I surely would like this code for a paypal cart in the next release or an update. Thanks for this awesome gallery and I'll continue with plogger as it grows.