Alucine

Thank you Drummin

Well, deep inside I knew I'de get answers like these I know it's not "a piece of cake", so I'm just looking for some orientation. I think the way to go is through some pre-made code or app or software that can achieve the functionality I need without having to code it from scratch, which I can't. I found opencart.com, I will give that a try. Thank you Drummin for you reply, but I think that I don't need a login for every user, the gallery page will be private, protected with a password that the users will already know, and my idea is that when someone enters the gallery and selects the items he wants, the file could be generated at the end anyway, without every user having to register. Like the survey systems where you don't have to register, just answer the questions annonimously, and the file gets generated at the end with your responses or conclusion, you know? I hope it can be one that way, it's the easiest and simplest for the users. Is that possible? Thank you very much again

Hello I'm a begginer in web development, I'm sorry if my question is too basic, I wasn't sure if it was possible to ask this on this forum that looks so professional, but well, you'll tell me I need to develop a personal website with a very simple shopping cart. I'm looking for a simple solution because I haven't learned PHP yet, just HTML and CSS and I've just used some pre-made PHP or JS code once in a while. Visually, this is what I need (It's in spanish, but you'll get the idea): It is a website for selling photos and other items to people that have been in the evets that I photograph. It would have a photo gallery and a form next to it indicating the items that are available to buy, so the user would mark what they want to buy, and the quantities, and when the gallery ends, a file, very much like a receipt, should be generated with all that information (name of the pictures, quantities, prices, and all the sum of all the prices producing the final cost). In this receipt the user should be able to enter their information (name, phone, adress, etc) and send it to their email and mine, so I can go get all the prints and items and let him/her know that they can collect it at the studio and pay it there. I'm not going to use online payment (creit card, paypal..), just offline payment when the user colects their items. So the system shold be very simple, I guess. Just compile all the info in a receipt, sum the prices, adding the user information and send it though email. Note: I've already consider more than 20 services that offer this type of app o website for selling images, but they have tons of functions that I really don't need, an also I want to be in control of the looks of the website, so I was wondering if you could orient me into some resources or ideas on how can I make this simple shopping cart functionality as simple as I've described. I'm lost in php and need some orientation to be able to build what I need THANK you so MUCH for your attention and any help is very appreciated. Alucine.

Hi! I'm totally new to php and to Web Development too But I'm doing a personal website and need some orientation The site I'm doing is for a photographer and it will have a password protected "client area", where the clients will see a gallery with lots of images and they will have a button or checkbox to select the pictures they want to order as prints. When they are done looking at the pictures, the data should be inserted in a receipt where the total amount of images will be displayed and the total cost of all the prints (so the application should multiply the amount of images per the image price). Also, it would be even better to have a couple of buttons instead of one, each for every photo size or enlargment (10x15, 13x18, etc.). This generated receipt should be shown to the user and he/she should be able to insert his/her name, adress, phone, etc. and finally send that receipt to my email and his/her email as well. I hope you understand what I mean. If you could please tell me if there is a simple way to achive this, like a plugin for a CMS or Dreamweaver or sometying similar, easy to set up. This is beacause I'm so newbie in PHP and I really need to make this system work as soon as possible I'm working in Dreamweaver with HTML and CSS and some snippets of PHP and JS when needed, but I wouldn't mind moving to Wordpress or Joomla or other platform to make this work in an easy and friendly way. Thanks a LOT in advance for your attention :) Alucine.