Post edited 5:40 pm – January 14, 2010 by Market Admin
Post edited 2:47 pm – September 17, 2010 by Market Admin
Post edited 2:37 pm – March 7, 2011 by Market Admin

E-junkie is a great system for handling digital products.  It's only $5 a month, and you can have a bunch of different product listings.

Here's a quick overview of how to convert Market theme to work with e-junkie digital downloads…

*** A word of Caution ***

By doing the following changes to convert your store to offer digital downloads (fulfilled by e-junkie),  your Market Theme store will no longer work with regular products.  We are customizing the code to integrate with e-junkie transaction processing, rather than the typical Paypal checkout configuration.

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Ok, first you'll create listings for your products through the Market theme product manager in your WordPress site.

For each of the listings you create, write down the product post ID generated for each.  (You can see the post ID if you hover over the listing in the "Manage Posts" area of the WP administration area.

Next, you'll need to enter the products into your e-junkie account.   (You'll also want to setup the rest of the administration settings including profile, thank you page information, your Paypal ID, etc.)

For each product you enter in e-junkie, Under the "Item Number" field of the Product Configuration page, enter the WordPress product post ID that you wrote down.

Make sure you save all your product entries.

Next, you'll need to do some modifications to the Market Theme product display page.

The following code changes are for Market Theme versions PRIOR to 3.5.  For the code changes to versions AFTER Market Theme ver 3.5, scroll down toward the end of this post.

==============   For Market Theme Versions PRIOR to 3.5   ============

Open up the file "single.php" for editing (this is one of the Market theme files).  (You can edit it through the WordPress administration area using the theme editor.)

Search for the following line:

<input type="image" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/imgs/bn.gif" class="pp" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal – it's fast, free and secure!">

Replace this code with the following "buy now" code to disable the current code and replace with an e-junkie link:

<?php /*<input type="image" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/imgs/bn.gif" class="pp" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal – it's fast, free and secure!">*/ ?>

<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=<?php the_ID(); ?>&c=single&cl=XXXXX" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" alt="Buy Now"/></a>

In the line above, find where it says "cl=XXXXX".  Replace the "XXXXX" with your e-junkie client ID.

(You can find your e-junkie client ID number by clicking the "View Account Summary" link within your e-junkie administration area.)

Ok, the final step is to disable the regular "add to cart" function from displaying.

A couple of lines beneath where you pasted the code above, you will find the following line:

<!-- Start Vcart Code -->

Immediately AFTER this, enter the code "<?php /*" so that your result looks like this:

<!-- Start Vcart Code --><?php /*

Next, scroll down until you find the line:

<!-- End Vcart Code -->

Immediately AFTER this, enter the code "*/ ?>" so that your results looks like this:

<!-- End Vcart Code -->*/ ?>

Save the file, and test it out.

==============   For Market Theme Versions AFTER 3.5   ============

Open up the file "single.php" for editing (this is one of the Market theme files).  (You can edit it through the WordPress administration area using the theme editor.)

Search for the following lines:

<?php if($mkt_outstock != 1) { ?>
      <input type="image" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/imgs/bn.gif" class="pp" border="0" name="submit" alt="<?php echo mkt_THEME_SINGLE_BUTTON_BUYNOW; ?>">
<?php } else { ?>

Replace this code with the following code to both disable the current code and replace it with an e-junkie link:

<?php if($mkt_outstock != 1) { ?>
<!--      <input type="image" src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/imgs/bn.gif" class="pp" border="0" name="submit" alt="<?php echo mkt_THEME_SINGLE_BUTTON_BUYNOW; ?>"> -->
<a href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?i=<?php the_ID(); ?>&c=single&cl=XXXXX" target="ejejcsingle"><img src="http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/x-click-butcc.gif" border="0" alt="Buy Now"/></a>
<?php } else { ?>

In the line above, find where it says "cl=XXXXX".  Replace the "XXXXX" with your e-junkie client ID.

(You can find your e-junkie client ID number by clicking the "View Account Summary" link within your e-junkie administration area.)

Save the file.

Lastly, you'll need to go into the Market Theme options settings area, and change your Store's Checkout Method from Shopping cart to the Single Click Buy-now method.

Click the "Activate Changes" button at the bottom to save.

Now test it out.

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Again as stated in the beginning of this post, for each product you create, make sure that you enter your WordPress product post ID into the "item number" field of the product configuration area.

You'll also have to upload your digital product to e-junkie, but you probably already figured that out when you setup your e-junkie product settings.

I think that should do it.

I'm confused…

Do you want to sell digital products or tangible goods?    (Or is it that you want to sell both at the same time?)

If you want to sell tangible goods, you should be fine with the standard install, just going through Paypal.  There isn't really a need for e-junkie for tangible goods. 

Now if you wanted to sell digital download products, that's where e-junkie makes sense to use. 

You can setup the Market theme as it is to direct users to a download area by just specifying the "return URL" link for Paypal to send the visitor once purchase is completed — however I don't generally recommend that, because it's not really a secure method for keeping non-payers out of your download area.  Specifically, if someone shares the download page link to some of their friends, they could go directly to that page without paying.  That's where e-junkie can come in handy.  You can just setup your e-junkie account to provide your users the downloaded file.

If your goal is to see physical goods and digital goods at the same time with the Market theme, I'm not immediately sure if you can easily do it.  The reason, is because the theme is coded primarily to work using its own included shopping cart system.  In order to use e-junkie, you have to change the code so that it DOES NOT use the internal Market theme shopping cart system.  And once you do that, you change the functionality.

Basically, with the method I outlined above — you can have one or the other, but not both at the same time.

On a more positive note however, I'll talk to our coders about it and see if we can figure out a way to do both.  I'll at least try to figure out a way to use an alternative (like e-junkie) without having to change coding as much.  Something that's easier to set through a "settings" area or something.

Another potential "quick" option for you, is to disable the "buy now" and "add to cart" buttons in your single.php file, and then just place the e-junkie "buy now" link within your product description.  It's not the most ideal solution, but is a quick and easy alternative.

For right now, Market is pretty much setup to be either/or, unless you're ok selling a digital product through the regular means, and then fulfilling it manually when you review your Paypal orders.

Your dilema however gives us some ideas about how to give Market the ability to handle both types of products at the same time.

We'll think about some ways it could be done, and try to work them into a future release.

UPDATE

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With Market Theme version 4.0 and up, the changes are a little different and are actually MUCH easier.

In fact, it can be done without any code modification at all.  (Except for maybe a graphic image change.)

Here's the post for Market Theme version 4.0 and up.

http://www.markettheme.com/for…..4-0-and-up