Hello community,
This my first post, I've dived into ecommerce as from about 72 hours.. I've got couple years drupalling and a bit longer PHPing, MySQLing, and HTML/CSSing 
I've searched around a bit and could not really find a lot: google, drupal, here.
I have developed a brochure site in drupal over the last while... this site presents a catalog of woodcraft products, furniture, toys and other things... the products are CCK nodes, with ImageField, Imagecache and all sorts of other settings.. I mean, the site is pretty much setup.... www.ocramgirap.com, I'm still working on it but the main functional issues at least are doing ok... I think..
The idea is to convert CCK nodes to Ubercart nodes. Also, the Categories need to be sorted out so that the Catalog uses the vocabulary of my CCK nodes.
Currently the site as no Ubercart support, I would like to know if this "porting" is possible or if its just better to start all over and use the default "Product" type provided by Ubercart and its default "Catalog" block..
That would be a pain in the bask as I would have to reupload all product images.
So, my attempt so far as gone as dirty as changing the database contents with the MySQL Query Browser. I went to the node_type table and, better to give the (not tested pseudo) query:
UPDATE node_type SET module ="uc_product" WHERE type="my_cck_product_type"The module field was previously set equal to "node", ie: getting created by default by the core node module, I guess...
Now, if I go to "Create Content > My_CCK_Product_Type" , you will get the Ubercart product fields, like SKU and prices $$ ...
Is this enough? that's my first question. In any case it does not solve the problem of taxonomies, and I can't get all the CCK nodes that I have already set up to "uc_product" nodes that can be Ecommerced.
The second question is: is tweaking the db a good idea? After all its going to be an ecommerce,don't really want to risk anything, security wise for example, for a bunch of stupid dirty tweaks¡!¡!
I've installed Ubercart ( also tried doing it locally on a fresh drupal install) and it looks neat, I might use it for another project hopefully.
I had also played around with Ecommerce module about a year ago, by now it must have gotten better I guess and I plan on trying it anyway... if any one thinks that this alternative could be better in my case, please signal it..
¿Any ideas? Any suggestions?
