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Hello Everyone,

I am new to Drupal and Ubercart, i would like to know if anyone knows
of an easy method for me to sell my photos online using a gallery format, so users can browse my photos, and using a combinationof Drupal and Ubercart together please?

Also using Paypal as a payment method please?

i would be very grateful for any responses.

many thanks,

UberTM

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Re: Use Drupal and Ubercart together to create a website for pho

First of all, Drupal is a highly-customizable content management system, or framework. It can do a bazillion things on a Web site. Ubercart is a shopping cart module that fits into that Drupal framework. You can't have Ubercart without Druapl.

Yes, Ubercart can handle Paypal.

I'm not sure what you mean by "sell my photos". Are you planning on selling physical copies of photographs? Or, are you planning on selling digital photograph files? As it happens, Ubercart can do both.

As for the gallery, that's a little tricky. Ubercart can set up a catalog of items for sale and can list the items for sale. Each of the items can have images. However, it might not be in the gallery format you want. I'm pretty sure that it would be possible to set up a catalog style/theme that would do what you want. It might or might not involve some PHP coding, though.

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Thanks - Photo gallery shopping cart system ?

Thanks Z-Twist Books,

That was helpful and encouraging, i am a little torn between Drupal and Joomla, on 1st impression to me Drupal appears to be a better all rounder and i would like to go with it , IF i can make it suit my needs.

I am not familiar with PHP, although i have done a little .ASP & html in the past, that said, i do want my Photo gallery shopping cart system to be as easy to implement as possible, without hardly any self-coding , i simply do not have the time or money to do otherwise.

From my research so far, i have not found a simple " setup & go " Photo gallery shopping cart system , and though you said

"... It can do a bazillion things on a Web site "

i havent found a simple setup all in one Photo gallery shopping cart system , which surprises me as drupal and joomla appear to be very versatile indeed.

Thanks Z-Twist Books,

any more ideas or comments would be very welcome as well.

thanks,

Uber TM

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Re: Use Drupal and Ubercart together to create a website for pho

You can do it with UC and Drupal but it won't be out of the box. It shouldn't require any programming just knowledge of views and a few other modules and lots of reading. On my sites I use this code http://drupal.org/node/1089656#comment-5054792 to override templates which gives me quite a bit of control on the look of the site per node, taxonomy or term.

Is there an example site that you have?

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I am an absolute Noob at Drupal and Ubercart ,

Hello END USER,

Using that code to override templates to control the look is sonething that definately appeals to me.

I am an absolute Noob at Drupal and Ubercart , i have never installed them so even that code is beyond my present understanding.

No sample example, but i have been looking at every photo-gallery type one i could find.

thanks a lot anyway

Uber TM

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Re: I am an absolute Noob at Drupal and Ubercart ,

Sry that code goes into your template.php file which resides in your template folder usually under /sites/all/themes If you don't have a template.php file just create it and insert that code into it. Also where is says THEMENAME change it to the name of your them. So if your theme is called cooltheme change the THEMENAME to cooltheme.

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Hi END USER,

Thanks for the detailed explanation on that code, if i need to use it , it will come in handy.

many thanks,

UberTM