[osCmax v2.5x] Select Product On Custom Checkout Page?

[ChairGraveyard]

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if it's possible to create a custom checkout page that allows the customer to select the product in line with the checkout form. Ideally the page would be exactly the same as our current order page (which is just XHTML/JS) but would use osCmax for the order information and such.

I'm an experienced software developer, so if there's any way to do it at all (even if it requires getting my hands dirty) I'm all ears.

Edit: I am even willing to subvert osCmax completely, and simply use its table structure directly with SQL queries, if anyone knows the how to point me in the right direction there.

[Luxoria]

Dirty, yes, that will happen. It should not be too hard to do considering you are experienced, hopefully at PHP, even then it's quick to pickup.

I think I know what you are getting at. Checkout the attached screen shot. In the admin area go to Customers then click Create Order. After you select your customer by name or ID you you will see the build an order page. As depicted in the screen shot when you click 'Add Product' A really neat popup box appears and you can select the product along with its' attributes. More on this latter.

Here's a quick point in a direction.

If was making the mod you are proposing I first would create a new page in the checkout flow to accommodate your new product select page. This will entail disabling the 'is there products in the cart if not show empty cart' code. (Adding a properly coded page is simple because I myself added a checkout page in the flow, I just copied & pasted an existing page and tweaked the code)

Then I would figure out the code for adding products to the cart during a normal shopping experience. Then I would look at that popup box's code I brought up at the beginning of this post and see how that works. After I learn the code I would just combine them together so it adds products directly to the cart. The good part about this is you don't have to hack away at the existing checkout code, you're just adding products to the cart at a different location and with a different technique!