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Tuesday, 6 November 2007 

Alternative template for iView Media Pro and the PayPal Shopping cart

I was asked by Chris Herring if I could help him get the iView and payPal template working on his site. Having finished the job I thought that I would make it available to everyone who wants a different look for their iView Paypal galleries.

To use it just follow the instructions here but use this file instead of the paypal.zip file mentioned.

I hope you find it of use and if you do use these galleries on-line please let me know and I will be happy to link to them.

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Monday, 2 July 2007 

LightroomGalleries.com and Paypal

LightroomGalleries.com keeps going from strength to strength. Joe has now added a whole raft of features to the free templates there including paypal support.

I won't be doing any more with Lightroom web galleries as I generate all my own galleries using iView Media Pro and the Lightroom Stuff came about as the result of being dared to do it by John Beardsworth. So those of you who have come here looking for stuff on Lightroom and Paypal are welcome to checkout the related links below or surf on over to LightroomGalleries.com and use theirs.


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Friday, 22 June 2007 

Lightroom Paypal Galleries

Darryn Mckay of mckayphotography.com.au has taken the Lightroom Paypal Web Gallery template I produced and made it into some really good looking and effective Wedding galleries.

It's great to see people taking my experiment and producing something really useful.

I'd love to see any more galleries people have made with the template, why not add a comment linking to your site that uses lightroom and paypal below.




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Tuesday, 17 April 2007 

ECommerce sites with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and the PayPal Shopping cart..continued

Those of you who are interested in Lightroom web templates (and there does seem to be an awful lot of you) will be pleased to know that I have extended the template to add two new features:

  • Sequential numbering for each item.
  • Next & Previous buttons for each image allowing users to easily page through.
Install instructions are the same as for the previous version except you will need to download this new version of the file from here: paypalLightroomForwardBack.zip

I will be leaving each of the different versions available so that you can see how each of the elements was added to the template. hopefully this will help people develp their own versions.

I am currently working on getting paging working.

Things I have yet to work out is how to get keywords & descriptions in to the source xml.

After that I will look at how to get settings in to the lightroom panels...still a long way to go.



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Saturday, 14 April 2007 

Creating an ECommerce site using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and the PayPal Shopping cart

In my previous post I covered what I have learned so far about Adobe Lightroom Web Gallery Templates.

Using what I have learnt so far I have created a template for web-gallerys that uses the paypal shopping cart. It's far from perfect..but I intend to re-visit the issues when I get a chance, and others might be able to progress things faster than me.

To use the template:

1. Download the paypalLightroom.zip file.

2. Unzip it to the Web Galleries folder (by default you don't have one so you will need to create it):
  • On Mac, <your home directory>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Galleries/.
  • On Windows, put the gallery in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Galleries.

On a PC the Application Data directory is hidden so you will need to enable "show hidden folders" before you can browse to it.


3. Edit the transformer.xslt file:

near the top you will find a section that looks like this:

<!-- paypal Settings -->
<xsl:variable name="PayPalAccount">You@there.com</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="ReturnScreen">www.test.com</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="CancelScreen">www.test.com</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="CurrencyCode">GBP</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="CurrencySymbol">&pound;</xsl:variable>

<!-- Individual Sale Items -->
<xsl:variable name="Item1Description">10&quot;x20" Print</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item1CodeNo">100</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item1Price">150</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="Item2Description">11&quot;x22" Print</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item2CodeNo">101</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item2Price">155</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="Item3Description">10&quot;x20" Print framed</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item3CodeNo">102</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item3Price">150</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="Item4Description">11&quot;x22" Print framed</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item4CodeNo">103</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="Item4Price">155</xsl:variable>

You need to change the values between <> and <> on each line to reflect your settings.

The Settings:





Setting Current Value Description
PayPalAccount You@there.com Your paypal account ID
ReturnScreen www.test.com URL to return to after a succesful purchase
CancelScreen www.test.com URL to return to after the user has pressed cancel
CurrencySymbol &pound; Currency symbol in HTML (£ = &amp;pound;, $ = $ € = €)
CurrencyCode GBP Currency code (GBP = pounds, USD = dollars, etc )
Item1Description 10&quot;x20" Print Description of first item type you sell
Item1CodeNo 100 A code number for this item if you have one
Item1Price 150 Price for item 1
Item2Description 11&quot;x22" Print Description of second item type you sell
Item2CodeNo 101 A code number for this item if you have one
Item2Price 155 Price for item 2
Item3Description 10&quot;x20" Print framed Description of third item type you sell
Item3CodeNo 102 A code number for this item if you have one
Item3Price 150 Price for item 3
Item4Description 11&quot;x22" Print framed Description of fourth item type you sell
Item4CodeNo 103 A code number for this item if you have one
Item4Price 155 Price for item 4


Having made all the changes, save the file.


4. Now use the new template

In Lightroom generate the web site using the new Paypal Template.

Summary

As I said it's not perfect yet but hopefully it will give those of you who wish to dabble, something to dabble with.


Update 16 April 2007

Improved version with forward and back buttons added.


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Saturday, 31 March 2007 

Creating an ECommerce site using iView Media Pro and the PayPal Shopping cart

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 items

Open 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 name

The 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 &pound; Currency symbol in HTML (£ = &pound;, $ = $ € = &euro;)
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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 Galleries

Now 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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