First visit
Dave Beckermans guide to using iView and PayPal as it covers an awful lot of the basics you will need, The main difference between his method and mine is that he has individual sizes and prices for each picture where as my method is designed for a gallery where all the prints are the same sizes & prices.
Take a look at
the Galleries on this site, to get an idea of how the web pages generated by this method. While you are there why not buy a picture or two.....you know you want to.
How to do it- Download the Paypal.zip file.
- Unzip the contents into the iView HTML template directory which is under the Plug-ins directory of iView media pro.
Set your products and paypal itemsOpen the Media.html file (its in the paypal directory you just created) in notepad or an HTML Editor. Find the section that looks like this:
<!-- iView HTML Engine Directives
(iView:InMediaWidth 500)
(iView:InMediaHeight 500)
(iView:Variable name = "Gallery Title" default = "")
(iView:Variable name = "PayPalAccount" default = "paypal@paypal.com")
(iView:Variable name = "ReturnScreen" default = "http://www.yoursite.com/Success.html")
(iView:Variable name = "CancelScreen" default = "http://www.yoursite.com/Galleries.html")
(iView:Variable name = "CurrencySymbol" default = "£")
(iView:Variable name = "CurrencyCode" default = "GBP")
(iView:Variable name = "Item1Description" default = "18 x 12 inch Mounted print")
(iView:Variable name = "Item1CodeNo" default = "")
(iView:Variable name = "Item1Price" default = "75")
(iView:Variable name = "Item2Description" default = "18 x 12 inch Framed & Mounted print")
(iView:Variable name = "Item2CodeNo" default = "")
(iView:Variable name = "Item2Price" default = "125")
(iView:Variable name = "Item3Description" default = "24 x 18 Mounted print")
(iView:Variable name = "Item3CodeNo" default = "")
(iView:Variable name = "Item3Price" default = "250")
(iView:Variable name = "Item4Description" default = "24 x 18 inch Framed & Mounted print")
(iView:Variable name = "Item4CodeNo" default = "")
(iView:Variable name = "Item4Price" default = "300")
-->You need to change the value in quotes for default for each line that begins with
(iView:Variable nameThe Settings: | Setting | Current Value | Description |
| Gallery Title |
| Title of your Gallery - best left blank |
| PayPalAccount | paypal@paypal.com | Your paypal account ID |
| ReturnScreen | http://www.yoursite.com/Success.html | URL to return to after a succesful purchase |
| CancelScreen | http://www.yoursite.com/Galleries | URL to return to after the user has pressed cancel |
| CurrencySymbol | £ | Currency symbol in HTML (£ = £, $ = $ € = €) |
| CurrencyCode | GBP | Currency code (GBP = pounds, USD = dollars, etc ) |
| Item1Description | 18 x 12 inch Mounted print | Description of first item type you sell |
| Item1CodeNo |
| A code number for this item if you have one |
| Item1Price | 75 | Price for item 1 |
| Item2Description | 18 x 12 inch Framed & Mounted print | Description of second item type you sell |
| Item2CodeNo |
| A code number for this item if you have one |
| Item2Price | 125 | Price for item 2 |
| Item3Description | 24 x 18 Mounted print | Description of third item type you sell |
| Item3CodeNo |
| A code number for this item if you have one |
| Item3Price | 250 | Price for item 3 |
| Item4Description | 24 x 18 inch Framed & Mounted print | Description of fourth item type you sell |
| Item4CodeNo |
| A code number for this item if you have one |
| Item4Price | 300 | Price for item 4 |
Having made all the changes, save the file.
Creating the GalleriesNow go to iView and select the items that you wish to appear in your gallery.
Select Make>HTML Gallery...
On the Theme tag check the settings.
Click the Theme Fields Tab and change any fields that you need to.
Click Make... and chose a directory to load the gallery into.
That's about it, if you have any questions please add them as comments at the bottom of this article and I will see if I can help.
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