"shop anywhere" type shopping cart

[vatel]

Hello, and happy holidays.
I have been using both Shopsite and Zencart.
I love Zencart because it is extremely powerful and also because it is open source. The only thing I really liked in Shopsite was a feature called Shop Anywhere, that would allow you to add a button that would take you to the shopping cart from the product page. This feature made it possiblle to add quickly a shopping cart to a site already created, while with Zencart you have to build the whole catalog with that program. I actually hacked a bit Zencart and managed to use it on an already built site, but that was rather lengthy.

Now I was wandering if any of you know of a reliable shopping cart, possibly open source, that offers a way to just put a button on a pre-created product page and takes care of the shopping cart section only.

Thank you for your help.

[vatel]

Hello again.

After three months no reply?
Anybody?
Thanks

[too much information]

The only thing I can think of that would be that quick would be to use the PayPal shopping cart or Google Checkout. You could modify the code for each item dynamically if your site is set up with PHP or ASP or something similar.

Other than that, I'm not sure what else is available.

[jsinger]

Doesn't Mals do that? It's free.

[vatel]

Yes Mal's does exactly that but it is hosted on their server. I'd rather have the cart on my own. Paypal is a good idea, but it does not look very professional (in my opinion). I will check Google checkout.
Thanks a lot for your replies Toomuchinformation and jsinger!

[Otaku]

Avactis shopping cart does provide such buttons. If you have static HTML pages, you can make it this way:

<a href="cart.php?asc_action=AddToCart&prod_id=5">I buy this!</a>

If your pages go through PHP parser, you can include a common Avactis file once at the beginning of a page and then insert several tags for products:

<a href="<?php ProductBuyLink(5); ?>">And this!</a>

/* The data for product with ID=5 must already exist in the Avactis DB - entered through web backend or imported. */
In both cases user gets to his cart. The following checkout process is handled by the software. There's a choice of several payment gateways & shipping carriers.

[edited by: Otaku at 11:38 am (utc) on May 5, 2008]

[edited by: lorax at 5:26 pm (utc) on May 5, 2008]

[vatel]

Thank you Otaku!
It looks exactly like what I was looking for.
I will try it and post the results here for all to share (in a little while, since I have some other projects to finish first)
Vatel