data for paypal and an extra field

[armando]

Starting to use PhocaCart now, I came accross the need of processing PayPal transactions. I thin there is the need of inserting some bits of information as what concerns my payPal ID and which PayPal I' trying to use (Portuguese PayPal). Where do I insert that information and what other information do I need to insert?

I came accross another issue, which is the fact that I'm selling books online. How could I add an author field to the product display?

[Jan]

Hi,

author field: There can be more ways. E.g. you can add this information to description or you can use "manufacturer" field as "author". In such case you will be able to filter the author names. (And with Joomla! language override there is no problem to change strings like "manufacturer" to "author" in frontend, etc. )

If you want to use PayPal, just install and enable PayPal plugin (it should be installed as default within the Phoca Cart component). Then you will be able to set payment method whith "PayPal" type and its parameters:







Jan

[armando]

Thank you for your reply. PayPal is working now and now I have to sort out the need for an author field.

Taking the suggestion of yours that seems to be the best, I think I should define the manufacturer as the author. In the case (please correct me if I'm wrong), I should creat one manufacturer entry for each new author needed and then link the product (Book) to the manufacturer/author it has.
I was using manufacturer to store information about the publisher but, in this case, author information is better. I was thinking I could have information on the publisher at the category level, which will allow to see books by pubisher really fast. I was just thinking I was needing another criteria for filtering the books, e.g.: all poetry books or all science fiction books or all ....
I have an issue with your suggestion, which is the point of overriding manufacturer. Plainly, I don't know how to do it and which option do I personalise. Thanks.

[Jan]

Hi, anyway, there are more ways to add the author, e.g. per specifications too:


Overriding manufacturer string is a Joomla! feature where you can override the strings of Joomla! or its extensions in language override:



Add new:


COM_PHOCACART_MANUFACTURER ==> Author
COM_PHOCACART_MANUFACTURERS ==> Authors



Jan

[armando]

I've used category to define product authors. It works fine with an override. Now my next issue is to have a search feature looking through author data as well as titles. I installed the search component that works ell with titles but ignores authors. How should I have this working?

[Jan]

Hi, the search module is a search product module, it only search in products not in categories.

BTW: I have added it to feature request list - to be able to search categories

Jan