Advice required for photography website

[drew]

Hi All,

Been a while since I posted here, so hello 

I'm currently working on a site for a friend who is a photographer. The site itself is easy enough, but trying to combine it with e-commerce, in the way he wants it work is proving a bit tricky. So I thought I would post here and see if anyone knew which cart would work like he wants, and if so what mods would be required.

So as I say he's a photographer. The ecommerce site must be able to sell his own work (thats easy enough, any cart will do for that) but.........

Where he does work for clients, he wants to be able to upload the images, and have them password protected so just the client (or person with the password) can see them, when logged in. He then wants the client to be able to order prints and various other items.

It sounds easy enough, but how can you work it so that only images from one client, would appear when they log in?

Thanks

[BillyBigalow]

Here's one that I know of that uses Joomla with Virtuemart.
Not free, but worth a look at the demo.
http://www.shape5.com/product_details/club_templates/aluma_photography_-_october_2008_joomla_club_template.html

[Rainee Bows]

E-commerce plug-in for wordpress ....

download link on a password protected page ??

that would work .......

Rain
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[Grifter]

Lots of options down the wordpress route. Page Protection plugin will work ok and will offer individual members to see only there page and sub pages on their menu. The only problem is getting the right theme to work with the right plugins.

Membership plugins (premium) will offer a solution since you're paying they'll guarantee it to work with any of them. Here's one:
http://www.memberwing.com/

These are more aimed at affiliate membership sites but would work easily enough for what you want. Also offers digital content protection and direct paypal integration if you're selling by single buy it now buttons or to integrate to a cart.


Scotserve made a nice photography site for a client...

[seamus]

you could always run a wordpress within a zencart,
good cart functionality and plenty of wordpress gallery mods, along with the suggested password protected pages.
Im sure you can set pages to private on wordpress, only viewable to registered members

[drew]

Thanks for the replies guys.

I did look at that site Billy, but I think the cost of it will put my mate of, he's after the cheap as poss option.

I hadn't thought of using Wordpress, but am now looking over the various options that can be offered from that.

Do you know if this can be easerly integrated into zen cart? I think the whole idea would be that pictures are uploaded, and without to much adding code, they would automatically have the option for purchase. I will do some playing, and see what I can find.

Ie, you can buy a 6x4 print, 8x6 print, mug, mouse mat etc and all the prices are the same across the range.

[seamus]

with a bit of fiddling, you can have a wordpress run inside a zencart, bit of a headache to set up but once its all running it works quite well,

search for the WOZ mod on the zencart and wordpress sites, you'll find the two plugins you need,
one plugin is to get the wordpress running in zen, the other is for a shared login for customers not admin

[drew]

Cheers for the help and advise.

I think I have now found the solution.

Gallery2 can be integrated into Zen Cart, which will mean that pictures just have to be uploaded to albums in gallery2. These then automatically have the attributes required, and can be purchased through Zen Cart. The albums can also be made private, and do all the stuff required. Simples.

Thanks again