Upgrade Paypal Standard to custom shopping cart

Thanks for the tutorial on upgrading paypal standard to a shopping cart. I have Ecart 6, but I'm not very adept at understanding a lot of the programming involved with making the database work with Ecart. I've been trying, but it's been hard for me. This new tutorial looks like something I may be able to work out.

Can I create the customized shopping cart for this website: www.schmutzerland.com As you can see it is an entirely html site with paypal standard add to cart buttons. There are a lot of products and I'm looking for a relatively simple way to get a customized cart where I can add options with certain charges and also offer discounts and coupon codes.

So after being a little long winded here, can this site be converted to use the information in the custom shopping cart tutorial, or do i need to do something more drastic?

Thanks for your help.

the pages would need to be converted to PHP. eCart cannot be used on static HTML pages.

where you are asking about a database driven catalog, it is not really a conversion so much as a complete redo.

the eCommerce series of tutorial has details on creating the product catalog and other aspects of an eCart shopping site:
http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/eCommerce-Overview-eCommerce-Series

Jason, thanks for getting back to me. If I convert the pages to php would that work? I understand that creating a database driven catalog would be a complete redo, which is something I'd like to attempt, but as you can see with the number of products, it would take a long time.

I'm thinking that just making a customized shopping cart, as per your tutorial, might be a nice stop gap solution.

yes, to add eCart to the pages, you will need to convert the pages to php.

Ok I've gone through the tutorial. I get the shopping cart to work however it only seems to work for one product and it's not pulling the product name into the cart.

How are you setting up the add to cart buttons.

make sure to use a unique ID for each one. on the bindings tab, you can set the values to be used for the name and description and other columns.

All of the Paypal buttons have unique "item_number" fields that were filled in when the site was originally set up. That was done through the Paypal add to cart as per your Free Tools extension

in the Add items to shopping cart section of the tutorial, the paypal buttons are replaced by the eCart Add to cart behavior. My question is how did you set that up.

send a copy of your page please and link where i can see the problem happen. . .

Jason,

Sorry it's been a while. I'm still having problems with getting the shopping cart to work, so I deleted my old files and decided to start again from scratch. However, an ongoing problem I'm having with the ecart6 and dynamic connections is that ecart and dynamic connections do not let my enter names for connection name or naming a new cart object. plus when I select the bindings tab in the "ecart add to cart" window, it does not show the "help", "ok" or "cancel buttons at the bottom of the interface.

I dont follow, please provide mode details.