LRG One with PayPal Shopping Cart

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thank you for offering this!

http://celieceaurea.com

Regards
This seems like the perfect thing for me thanks.
I am experienced mac user and so forth but I have no idea how to install this plugin.

Could you please post installation instructions, maybe I missed them here on the site.

Also the download folder could contain a link back to your web site, blog. My copy does not show any links. maybe the installed template does, but would be helpful. I had to spend a lot of time going through my web history to find this one. Of course then I remembered to check the get info window on the zip download…anyway thanks for your help

Ciao Regards

…sorry. I just looked around some more and saw the instructions.
Very nice. Thanks again

wm

This template can be usefull for a wedding photographer, great job!

Greetings! I downloaded LRG One and installed it and I like it! It worked fine the first time I tried it. The problem is all of a sudden after opening a folder or selecting photos within that folder and clicking on the web tab near the top of the lightroom page it doesn’t load the photos or page anymore. Let alone clicking on the preview in browser tab at bottom. I tried reloading LRG One, but no luck. Any suggestions?

Thanks, Tim

[...] This template is based on the amazing LRG One. [...]

Great templates!
How can I add an extra currency (AUD) to the shopping cart?
Thank you,
Valeriu

Would it be possible to get a version for a different cart / payment gateway? I want to use a South African gateway provider.

Thank you.

Lawrence,
Yes this is possible. which cart do you use? Also, if you could send me a sample html page that already has the code you currently use that would be helpful.

I have LOVED using this template, but is there any possibility that I can password protect it, and incorporate an expire date on it? For instance, have a countdown clock on the thumbnails page, and not allow access after a set date? Thanks!

Thanks for these great galleries!

I’m trying to get the Paypal option to work-I set it all to UKP(£), but when I go to the shopping cart, it gives it in USD ($)!

Any ideas?

Many thanks again

I tried to acquire Paypal I put all that € (Euro), but when I go on the basket, it gives him in USD $()! be able to use me to solusionner this probleme thank you

You can read at this page :
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/sell/mc/mc_wa-outside

that US Dollars is the default currency at PayPal and if the currency is not well defined, you obtain every time a result in US Dollars.

I think that the galleryMaker file is not written in a good way to obtain a correct threatment of the currency request.

I have modified it this way :

USD
GBP
EUR
JPY
galleryDefault
slideshowOnly

And now my LRGOne works fine.

Cheers,

Herve.

Here is a modified version including an Euros and an UK Pounds module working fine.

I’ve modified the galleryMaker file including Euros and UK Pounds symboles. These instructions were not written in the original files so PayPal used the default currency, i.e. US Dollars.

You can download the modified version here :
http://www.rvb-photo.fr/download.php?lng=en

Cheers

Herve.

I’m a wedding photographer and have been using this template and I love it. I have one suggestion. Please make a version with a way to click on individual pages. Right now, my brides have to click that lone arrow button to get to a specific picture. Sometimes there are 50 pages or more that they have to click through.

I am probably being very dim here - but I can not find the option to set prices and print sizes.
Please help

check the readme.txt file that was included. basically you set the prices and stuff in the metadata section for each image. the prices and options go in the IPTC instructions field. Matt at the turninggate has a little video on changing metadata fields such at title and caption for images.

I agree with a number of the other comments- would be better if:
- select individual pages
- currency selectable by the person viewing the page

Thanks for this! It fixes many of the problems with the flash gallery (slow load times, lack of thumbs, etc…).

cheers!

The software works very well — the descriptions on modifying the files helped me immensely to do a bit of work on integrating the gallery function into my site. Am looking forward to LRG Complete to see how the menu function will work.

I wanted to integrate my current javascript menu system into the header, but since it in turn has an embedded library include, and a couple of javascript and css calls, it got too complicated for me to deal with in the .xslt file — I gave it a go, it didn’t work, so I opted for another approach.

I didn’t want anything that had to be regenerated every time a gallery was uploaded or updated. So I settled for similar look and feel. Usability suffers however, as it takes two clicks to get back to the main site from an image page. Would be terrific if LRG Complete has the PayPal function built-in as well as the menu system.

I just installed this template and have encountered one problem and one question.

The problem is that when I select an item in the dropdown to select size & price I get an error “‘document.ppform.shippingLocal’ is null or not an object” If I add the Include Local Pickup checkbox this error goes away - but I don’t want that option to appear. Can someone suggest how to get rid this error?

The question is this: is there any way to sharpen the web images that are generated? I don’t want to sharpen the master copy of all images, just the reduced size web images.

Thanks,

Tom

Continued working with this template. I have gotten a quick work around the null error I reported earlier by editing the general.js file and commenting a line out when the drop list changes.

A new problem: I noticed if I scroll through multiple pages and then click on an image, the “Back to Thumbnails” link takes me all the way back to page 1. Is that correct? It seems like it should be able to remember what index page it was on previously.

Is there a way in the image caption (or some other method) to display not only my e-mail but a hot link to my e-mail with the image file name as the subject? Some people are hesitant to order through paypal and so previously I have added a way for them to e-mail me the file name as a somewhat crude way for them to order without paypal (most like it but a few do not).

I agree with others about the lack of individual page numbers for navigation - that would be nice.

FWIW, I have a possible solution for the “back to thumbnails” link problem describe below and mentioned by others. I edited the transformer.xslt as follows:

1) In imagePages template I added a variable: “” I also added another param to the call to imagePage: “”

2) In the imagePage template after the new param I added a variable: “”

3) In the imagePage template where the Back to Thumbnails link is set to index.html, replaced that assignement to use a couple if’s:

Back to Thumbnails

Back to Thumbnails

HTH

Sorry, I didn’t realize my snippets of code would not show up literally in this text window. I can e-mail what I did if you want.

I am having problems with the display of the £ symbol.
It seems to have a mind of its own. Sometimes it displays properly and sometimes it appears as a ‘?’. For example as I have been writing this message the ‘?’ was appearing at first. Then I re-navigated to the same image and £ was displaying. Then I went back to typing this message. Then back to the tab that was displaying the image and it had switched back to ‘?’I am running Firefox on a Mac. I think this is probably a Firefox issue. What do you think?
Here is the site I am referring too:
http://www.brianjonesimages.com/LenkaDominic.html
I love the work you do with LRG One and will make a donation as soon as I make my first sales. I promise!
Best regards,
Brian Jones

Love the template - it’s fabulous. One quick question for the admin…Is there a way to pass a tax variable through to PayPal to charge my customers sales tax? I’m sure the answer is obvious, but I haven’t worked on it yet.

Keep up the good work!

i will have to look at the tax variable, but yeah you can add it. you can also set your paypal account to add a set tax rate on checkout.

THe symbol shows correctly on the PC in IE and Firefox. Might be a mac/firefox issue. How is it on safari or IE on the mac?

I know this is going to be one of those - Oh no a rookie - questions.
I would really like to use this gallery but can’t wrap my head around what I need to do to get my pricing in for paypal.
I have checked out the readme file but not really sure what I need to do still. Anybody willing to send me an instruction on just what I need to do. Remember, I am old and as much step by step would really help.
I am also a bit of a slow reader so don’t type to fast.

Thanks,
Dan

Well … after a number of hours of poking and messing with the template I got it figured out. It took some doing for an old guy but I did it.

You can have a look at the galleries here http://www.danportphotography.ca

Thanks

I’m having a nightmare with LRG One PayPal. I have 4 folders that I want to add to a website. 3 of the 4 work flawlessly, but the 4th will not. It does not generate a index page. I have tried everything that I can think of. I renamed the folder, I opened the folder in different catalogs, I deleted the gallery template and did a fresh install. I even tried it on a fresh install of the gallery on a separate PC. Same thing. The preview shows it with jaggy edges like its broken…

Particularly strange is that Flashslidestrip works correctly on the same group of images.

When I submit to paypal the conent appears as “xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNXg3IGZyYW1lZCAtIKMyMAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx:” how do I solve this?

Thanks

Tim

It appears to me that the captions display using the “Gallery Name Color” rather than the “Caption Color.” This can be a problem if, say, you want both the Gallery Name Color and the Thumbnail Background Color to be the same or close to each other — you don’t see the caption at all. At the moment, I can’t see any way to fix this. Anyone else have any ideas?

I am also getting the same as Tim
“xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNHg2IFNlcGlhIC0gozUuNTAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx: ”
Have re downloaded and re installed - any thoughts?

I also get a script error on saving the template in Lightroom of “agwpg://templateIcon:2/index.html” “return statement outside of function”

are you getting that error when you try to save the template as a preset? where does that error appear exactly?

Tim,
what currency symbol are you using?

I get the error message when I save as a user template . I’m using the GBP £ symbol

Peter,
I am not getting that error on the PC, you on a MAC? I will have to check with the Lightroom creators on that error, i have no idea whats might be causing that.

I too am on PC….?

re: “xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNHg2IFNlcGlhIC0gozUuNTAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx:”

I logged into my PayPal account, went to profiles,Language Encoding,More options and changed the encoding to ISO-8859-1 & the box below to YES. Info found on another forum.

I am using £ GB — test gallery is http://www.miles-hayler.ltd.uk/gallery/overington

Do you think this error message is related to the “xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNHg2IFNlcGlhIC0gozUuNTAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx: ”
in the content field tha both Tim and I are getting which I still haven’t solved.

(if it makes a difference this is Lightroom 1.31 on PC windows XP)
Meanwhile thanks for your help
P

Ok, trying to be logical, Its the GBP £ sign that causes the oprions fiels to give “xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNHg2IFNlcGlhIC0gozUuNTAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx: ”

Is there a way around this?

Peter,
Check out Tim’s solution below. I guess it worked well for him. I think i have found the issue though, something i can change in the template. Right now the entire text in dropdown list for the options gets sent as a value to paypal, this value contains the currency symbol. i think its for that reason that we get the error. the currency symbols are encoded with different characters and this throws off the paypal. I would use Tim’s fix below until i can change and test the template.

works for me too. Thankyou and thanks to Tim
P

Are there any limits to the number of images this tempalte will cope with? Up to aboyt 36 no problem, thereafter it won’t create the html pages although it does export the thumbs and full size images. So far I’ve tried up to 100 images - looking to do around 5-700

There should be no problem with the number of images. the max is set at 5000. i just did a test with the gallery and i worked fine with about 120 images.

Hi
Since posting that I have discovered that I have 3 rogue images that display OK but when included in your template cause it to fail. No I don’t understand why but if I exclude these it works.
This is a great template and worth the effort and expertise you’ve put in.
One thing for the future when you go ‘back to thumbs’ it takes you back to page one of the thumbs rather than the page on thumbs which include that image.
Thanks again for your help
P

Ok Folks! The solution for those having the - xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNHg2IFNlcGlhIC0gozUuNTAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx:

problem:

Firstly, this will not work when testing with an invalid paypal account so don’t bother. Once you’ve got your own valid uk based account in the settings you will need to make sure you do the following.

1) Go to your selling preferences - Edit profile > Seller preferences > Language Encoding.

2) Select More Options. If not already set you need to select - Windows-1252.

There may be other valid selections however, having nothing in there will cause the base64 error without fail.

Hope this helps, me and my mate just spent 3 hours figuring this out.

I am using this template for the first time and, after a little playing around, am finding it very useful.

I got the “xxxBASE64_STARTxxxNHg2IFNlcGlhIC0gozUuNTAxxxBASE64_ENDxxx:” error too but thanks to these comments was able to get around that.

The only thing I can see that is missing is a contact “mailto:” option. I have reworded the “Back to website” button to say “Contact Me” but it will just take you back to my web site - not email me direct.

Was this an over sight? Is it there but I missed it? Or is it something no one else wants - as I am the first to point it out.

Would be interested in your thoughts on this

Susan

I can’t get anything in the the ‘alt’ for the images automatically - should I be able to? The demo seems to give EXIF data although I would prefer IPTC headline or caption

I’m having a problem with IE6 which isn’t making some of the shadow thumbnail images transparent. This is wierd. pngfix.js is doing the corners and the bottom ok but sides and top appear non-transparent.

I tried another version supersleight.js and confusingly this works for everything but the top.

Any idea what’s going on here. I’m totally confused by this behaviour.

The only thing i can think of is that the top,bottom,left,right images and displayed via CSS and not as html embedded images. the js may not be affecting those. i think we ran into this a while back but the issue got solved i think. its been a while.

I’m just setting up galleries with this template. I had a few friends of mine test the site, and got the following bug report:

“Using the Mozilla Firefox browser, the ‘Continue Shopping’ buttons on the cart and checkout pages do not seem to be functioning.”

I just verified the problem. What appears to happen is that, when you make a purchase, Firefox opens the PayPal window as a new tab in their browser rather than having the current window jump there. Since it’s a new tab, it doesn’t have a URL history, so, when you click “Continue Shopping” (which should send you back to the URL you came from), Firefox is saying “uh…you didn’t come from anywhere else” and does nothing.

Now, of course, you can always close that tab, and Firefox will take you back to the tab that’s still displaying the gallery page from which you made the purchase, but I fear it would be very confusing to potential customers, who wouldn’t understand why they were “stuck” at the shopping cart.

Is there a way around this problem I can implement, or is it going to require a revision to the gallery code? Since so many people use Firefox, I would think this could be a big problem.

Thanks in advance.

Is there a way I can make my gallery password protected if a client chooses to do so.

An earlier post of mine mentioned a problem with ‘rogue images’ preventing the gallery being created. For any one else that has this problem the issue appears to be using the “&” in the caption field rather than the word “and”

“Site title” - does not seem to work.
This text doesn’t seem to be written in the HTML.

let me have a look at this. i’ll get back to you.

Hi.
I’ve read through all the comments here but can’t find anyone else asking about this…

Is it possible to remove the currency symbol? I don’t have any of the above problems, the amount transfers well over to PayPal which then states the amount in the correct currency (Norwegian Kroner (NOK)). However it’s a bit confusing for the customer seeing the price in Euros, Pounds or Dollars when the amount’s supposed to be in NOK. Hence, any way of removing the currency symbol?

Hi.
Anyway to get around the currency symbols? Is there a way to not showing the symbols in the drop-down list of prices? I want to sell my images with norwegian prices and it all works fine transferring from the gallery to my paypal interface where the price is stated in norwegian kroners.

Only problem is the currency symbol in the gallery.

Hope someone has a solution for this.

Thanks in advance.

Thomas

Thomas,
I added this for you. please download the template again from http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/files/LRGOne.zip

In the currency symbol dropdown select “None” now no symbol will appear

Thanks a lot. I will keep it for future galleries. I found the file I had adjust and adjusted the symbol used for euros into “kr” for kroners instead.

Thanks for your help and a great solution to create my own webshop. Finally a free webshop with all the features I want!

I have set a flat rate of £2 for shipping. A recent customer bought two prints from me and was charged £4. I thought it was a flat rate per order. Have I done something wrong?

brian, can you send me a link to your site?

Hi.
I am trying to see if I want to use your Paypal gallery (LRG One) and am having trouble with the captions. How do I get the captions to be unique for every image? I tried the same for title, but then just opted to go with file name. Also - can I change the caption color? Thank you for your time…

-I too am having some problems with the flat rate shipping. If I add the same image to the the shopping cart multiple times the shipping gets added once and doesnt change..excellent. But if i go to another image and add it. It adds the shipping again. So basically, they are getting charged each and everytime they add a new unique image. The shipping starts at $6, then it jumps to $12, $18, etc. What am i doing wrong?

-Is there a way I can set a flat rate shipping and also addn’l charges for special shipping on individual items? I have my all my standard size prints set at $6 shipping, but for my panoramic prints that are 15″ wide, I will have to ship that in a tube, so I want to add another $5 for a total charge of $11. It would only be a 1 time charge so they can buy multiple panoramics without incurring addn’l charges for shipping.

-I also get the error message when I click the drop down to select 5×7, I followed Tom’s advice and added the “local pickup” option. I would contact him but he didnt leave an email address. It works perfect now, but If the customer doesnt select “local pickup” of every image, they get charged shipping.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

Chi,
I did some work on this a couple days back but my focus switched to the new LRG Complete template. I will keep working on this for you guys when i get some time to see whats going wrong. Im pretty busy with work and the other templates so please just remind me if im taking too long

Have a few issues with LRG One with Paypal. Followed the read me instructions for entering IPTC Metadata Instructions, but the only thing appearing in my drop-down is the print size (option name) and a dollar sign. The item price doesn’t appear. I followed the sample exactly, but no luck.

Also, the add to cart and view cart buttons are not appearing. Just red x’s.

And since I installed LRG One, my Lightroom has been frequently freezing.

Nevermind! Persistance paid off. Figured out what I was doing wrong with the dollar amounts and the cart buttons. Freezing is still an issue if you have any advice though.

Thanks!

Hello,
Just checking in to see how you are getting on with the problem brought up by myself and CHI. The one about shipping costs getting added multiple times. I have included the URL of one of my problem galleries.
Many thanks,
Brian

Here’s the URL again : I don’t think it got included properly in my last post.
http://www.brianjonesimages.com/Wedding%20Clients/Wedding%20Couples%20Sites/ElaineMike/ElaineMike.html

hello brian, how did you get ride of the error message that pops up when you hit your drop down menu? The only way i could get rid of it (without goinginto the code) was to add the “local pickup” option as another member stated above.

thanks.