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i do not want to use off the shelf products thanks
Any reason why you don`t want an out of the box solution?
with the paypal can i add and take away things from the shopping cart then?
Absolutely, but all shopping cart actions are dealt with on the Paypal site. You have some customization options, but not as many as if for example you used the osCommerce system.
But yeah, you can have 'Add to Cart' and 'View Cart' buttons on your site which load things into the Paypal system via the IPN data that you pass. Its quite advanced, but pretty easy to use once you get the hang of things. People can remove or add more things to their cart as they need to.
Go to the Paypal website and view the documentation for a better idea of how it works.
I`m confused though because if you set up osCommerce or Zen Cart, you would have full control over everything.
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i just want a fancy little button on my custom coded pages and add all the information up and then finally checkout?
do they do that?
Well, that depends on the product you choose now doesn't it? It sounds more like "I don't want off the shelf products because then I have to learn how to use them". (Which for small projects would be an understandable thing)
I haven't used it myself, but osCommerce as suggested should help you off, and eZ Publish also has a 100% customizable (templates, content, functionality, triggers, workflows, you name it) solution with all the shopping cart functionality you need. Of course, you need to spend some time figuring it all out, but all the functionality is there, you just need to patch it together *exactly* the way you want
