Hey VirtueMart Friends,
I have incorporated several hacks with my website, including integrating Adobe Flash with the VirtueMart cart etc. Check it out and let me know what you think.
http://www.midwestautogear.com
Thanks goes to Soeren!! Great job man, keep it up! ;D
-iamheaddown [Skydiver at Heart!]
What a lively bunch! :o
All these views and no responses?? :o
-iamheaddown [Skydiver at Heart!]
looks nice!
how did you do the image swapping thing for your products!?
I'm new here, but I'll give you a comment.
Your site is extremely slick looking. Nice graphics, nice colors. I think you've got a very attractive integration there.
Very nice!
How you make a shopping cart with "del" buttons?
looks nice!
can you post the instructions for image swapping (HOW TO with javascript and virtuemart hacked file)?
Thanks in advance
hi iamheaddown,
now you've feedback and you're not here anymore :)
looks great
how did you link the flash and the cart to obtain
GT Custom Cover
Base Color: Grabber Orange Metallic
GT Color: Grabber Orange Metallic
Inset Color: Grabber Orange Metallic
Rib Color: Grabber Orange Metallic
Center Rib Color:
Total Package Price: (=$199.90)
Hey everyone, :D
Thanks for the replies finally! I have been waiting so I could share some of my lessons learned.
I will get to the image swapping later today, that was fairly difficult, but to answer the Macromedia Flash question right away given it was so exciting when I figured this one out!
In VirtueMart, when I created a product, I listed several attributes but did not list values for those attributes.
These are the attributes I created for my product, GT Custom Cover, product ID = 136:
Base Color;GT Color;Inset Color;Rib Color;Center Rib Color;Total Package Price
Then, in my Flash movie, the button that is labeled "Add to Cart" has the following actionscript:
on (release) {
//This creates an object called LoadVars that simply stores all of the attribute variables
var myVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
//Below loads all of the attribute values into LoadVars
//This is the Custom Products ID in VirtueMart, this should be a constant, never changes
myVars.product_id = 136;
//The following variables below such as _root.base_color are variables in Flash that contain
info I will send eventually to VirtueMart. Notice how myVars.Base_Color is the
name of the attribute in VirtueMart. = _root.base_color is the name of the
variable in Flash.
myVars.Base_Color = _root.base_color;
myVars.GT_Color = _root.gt_color;
myVars.Inset_Color = _root.inset_color;
myVars.Rib_Color = _root.rib_color;
myVars.Center_Rib_Color = _root.ctr_rib_color;
//The next statement below is naming the exact price you want for your product.
The POST method will send Total_Package_Price[=199.90] for the product price
for the configuration that gwen referenced in the reply above.
myVars.Total_Package_Price = "[=" + _root.total_price2 + "]";
myVars.quantity = qty.value;
//The following variables below are variables required by VirtueMart to know what it is
doing with the variables being passed to it.
myVars.flypage = "shop.flypage";
myVars.page = "shop.cart";
myVars.manufacturer_id = 1;
myVars.category_id = 1;
myVars.func = "cartAdd";
myVars.option = "com_virtuemart";
myVars.Itemid = 47;
myVars.send("http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.php", "_parent", "POST");
}
And that is it! Flash will POST the variables to the cartAdd function in VirtueMart and add it to your cart. Any further questions let me know and I'll step you through it. Glad to see some interest in this powerful development. You can do alot with Flash integrating with VirtueMart, the possibilities are endless, customize your products and send them to the shopping cart! Have fun!
-iamheaddown [Skydiver at Heart!]
hi,
this is very good :D
thanks for sharing
Proper nice looking site. Looks professional and highly functional, really nice photos and lots of cool stuff The only minor thing I'd change would be the animated verisign thing because whenever I click on a new product my eyes were drawn away from it by the movement of the verisign animation which seemed to degrade from the impact of looking at a new product. Maybe you could have an unanimated version on certain pages.
Conngrats on a wicked site. ;)
Hi,
can explain how did you do the image swapping? 8)
http://www.midwestautogear.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=shop.flypage&product_id=69&category_id=1&manufacturer_id=0&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=47
thanks for sharing
Really nice site...great job! It looks like there's a problem with the text on the front page though....things seem to be bunching up.
bbemis,
What browser are you using?? Let me know, I like for my site to be as compatible as possible across all browsers, a real challenge. I have seen the bunching you are describing in the beta IE 7.
Keep in mind, there is an "Acid2 Test" out there for browsers that has been created by the Web Standards Project. You can check it out here:
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/
IE 7 beta is awful on this test. Does that surprise anyone?? I think the only browser that renders the smiley face correctly is Safari and Opera 9.
Anyways. Cheers! ;D
Quote from: Adam Bazaroff on August 28, 2006, 10:34:31 AM
Very nice!
How you make a shopping cart with "del" buttons?
check this link http://virtuemart.net/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=71&topic=16326.0
Mark
This site really is something special.
A great example of what can be acheived when you put the hours in on the graphics side of things.
IAMHEADDOWN, any chance you could tell us how many hours you spent on all this? It might be inspiration for others looking to create equally stunning sites! ;)
I LOVE the Flash integration, and the javascript call for image switching is very nice. Any chance of a look at the code?
Kind regards,
Coos
Can you make us a .fla so we can see how it's done in flash?
I have received several requests for an .FLA example and tutorial on my flash modifications to VirtueMart.
I have been extremely busy opening a Joomla! Designer's Club JoomlaStorm (http://www.joomlastorm.com), and now I will be working on setting up a tutorial with example .FLA source files etc.
So, give me until later this week and the tutorial will be up and hopefully help everyone out!
-Les :D
Nice :D
OK everyone. I have the tutorial setup and ready for anyone who is interested at:
JoomlaStorm Designer's Club (http://www.joomlastorm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=187)
Hope this helps everyone!
-Les ;)
//The next statement below is naming the exact price you want for your product.
The POST method will send Total_Package_Price[=199.90] for the product price
for the configuration that gwen referenced in the reply above.
myVars.Total_Package_Price = "[=" + _root.total_price2 + "]";
Hi,iamheaddown
I follow your step to setup my actionscript ,but this step since not work. Is there anything I want setup in VM? I want the products add exact price $40 when someone choice the special style.
Thanks u very much!
Quote from: iamheaddown on March 13, 2007, 17:13:23 PM
OK everyone. I have the tutorial setup and ready for anyone who is interested at:
JoomlaStorm Designer's Club (http://www.joomlastorm.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=187)
Why is the site offline ??
:(
Hope this helps everyone!
-Les ;)
Hey guys,
I got this working pretty good, you can check out the build site here
http://www.rosiedogcreative.com/vander/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=28
Only thing is the add to cart is having trouble in firefox, always seems to timeout. Works good in IE6 though.
Anyone have any idea why it has so much trouble in firefox?
Hai robkristie,
Looks very nice. is there a posibility that you want to chare your custumasations.
Thxs in advance
nice:)
Very nice looking site. A lot of Photos and other cool stuf