Manual entering Paypal button.

[Evert]

Ìs there a way of manually entering a paypal "buy now" button with a number of items?
I have version 5 and at the moment it does not warrant the money to upgrade or purchase a Paypal module.
Any advice is welcome..

E.

[cdicken]

What code do you need to link to Paypal? Price? Product Reference? Product Name? Do you have any examples from PayPal of what you need to include?

[Evert]

I just want to know if it's possible to maunally edit the pages containing the product descriptions using something like Dreamweaver?
That way I can insert a Paypal "buy now" button and use that to handle online payments...

Regards, Evert.

[cdicken]

You can edit the templates that lay out the products. These are called Product Layout templates and the default one is called Act_ProductLine.html.

They don't look brilliant when you open them in Dreamweaver as they have <tr> and <td> tags but not <table> tags - the <table> tags for the product table come from Act_ProductBody.html.

I suggest you get hold of the 'Designing WIth Actinic Developer' guide - the v6 one - as this has a nice description and nice exercises for the product layout template - including all the variables that work in it.

[Evert]

Chris,

Thanks for your replies but I don't want to edit the templates. I need to asign different parameters to the Paypal "buy now" button for each individual product hence edditing the template would be no good (or would it?).
Is there a way to edit the individual product descriptions?
And if not could you tell me if the latest version of Catalog supports Paypal payments?

Thanks, Evert.

[cdicken]

PayPal is supported in v6.1 (or higher) of Actinic. I think it will be less time (and therefore less money) for you to get hold of an upgrade.