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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By : Monika Mathe
Book Image

Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By: Monika Mathe

Overview of this book

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

42. Add a Sophisticated Gift Wrapping Option to the Shipping Page


For many shops, adding a gift-wrapping option is critical, as the majority of products purchased are sent as gifts and require that special royal treatment in presentation to their final recipient. This recipe shows you how to specify different gift wrapping options for a set fee, enable taxing if applicable, and offers the option to add a gift card with a personal message too. This module is coded in such a way that you are also able to offer different gift-wrapping papers to customers viewing your site in different languages; this means that you have the flexibility to offer wrapping paper with text in specific languages to specific customer groups.

Note

Chef's suggestion:

This module is written to send all the items in a specific order gift wrapped. If you prefer to offer a gift-wrapping selection to each product instead, use the attribute options feature offered by default osCommerce. Create a new option group called Gift...