[osflash] os shop apps for flash AS2/2/flex?

[Glen Pike]

Hi,

    I would possibly look at using something like Magento - 
http://www.magentocommerce.com/ - with AS3 and reading in the HTML 
produced for each page.  They have been developing a webservices API for 
it too: 
http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/version-11-public-alpha-available-via-svn/

    The beauty of this system is that you could always just read in the 
(X)HTML produced from page requests and parse that with the AS3 / E4X 
stuff easily.  This would mean you could sit Flash on top of your store 
and Google could crawl the HTML version, whilst you present a fancy one...

    At a glance, the code looks pretty nice for this system - much nicer 
than OSCommerce - it outputs valid XHTML and there is a good community 
going.

    As for PayPal - depends what system you want to use, but I have done 
integrations with this a couple of times and it is an appalling system 
to try and work with - the documentation is rubbish so you have to spend 
ages searching through forums to get past every little problem.  If you 
go via the redirection / callback route rather than the back-end 
communications, you often miss your order-completion if you rely on 
customer's returning to your site:  If the customer ain't registered and 
pays by CC, PayPal tries to "grab" them at the end and quite often the 
customer doesn't bother clicking "return to the site" button.

    If you are just doing "buy it now" buttons and relying on PayPal for 
order handling, this is a different matter and may be adequate for small 
sites.  If you are getting serious about e-commerce, then look at some 
of the other PSP's

    HTH

    Glen

   

   

sebastian wrote:
> nice thanks, cool website too!
>
> anyone know of an AS3 version of the same? If I can find something in 
> AS3 that is already built I can keep it all current as well. The more I 
> code in AS3 the harder it seems to become to code in AS2... funny how 
> the brain works...
> :P
> :)
>
> Seb.
>
> Sergio Daroca wrote:
>   
>> and this -about external interface- is related to the same cart
>>
>> http://www.flash-db.com/Tutorials/simplecart/
>>
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Glen Pike
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