Re: using oscommerce for selling music online

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[quote="danno0909"]hey guys. i'm workin on the development of a site to sell artists' music online. the users pay and then they can download the cd's of the artsts.  i need to know how much i can customize the pages (like product info) to show what i want and how hard that is to do (i'm not at all afraid of coding but i do have a deadline). for instance, i want to show for each artist a page with all of their cds on there for purchase. i'm guessing that each artist woud be a category and each cd would be a product?[/quote]I would probably make artists manufacturers rather than categories.  Then modify includes/languages/english.php (or whatever language) to change Manufacturers to Artists (or Bands, etc.).  This leaves categories to describe types of music (rock, jazz, symphonic, etc.), which makes more sense.  There is a category description contribution that you might be able to modify to work with manufacturers.  I think that this would be easier than modifying the product
 _info page.
[quote]another issue is that after a person buys a cd i want them to get a link to download it and i need them to be able to get this link later too.[/quote]Enable Downloads in admin and set up a downloadable product attribute.  
[quote]another general question is, how hard is it to add a new page to oscommerce? it doesnt look too bad but i just want some info from people who have had to develop with it. [/quote]There is actually a contribution to allow you to do this easily.

You may want to check out [url]wiki.oscommerce.com/helpDocuments[/url] for more info on osCommerce in general.

Hth,
Matt