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Hi

Could someone please tell me the best way to integrate a shopping cart with multiple orderlines that can be searched in CiviCRM for say the date of the order and one of the items?

I am using Joomla 2.5 with CiviCRM 4.3.7.

Thanks

Thanks for your reply. I am a php developer and would like to know what the best way would be to implement a copy of a shopping cart in CiviCRM please.

Thank you very much.

* how am I storing a shopping cart order in CiviCRM? will you use a contrib record, and do you just need the order total or do you need to create line items for each product as well? or will you simply provide a link to the user's data in the shopping cart extension?

My first thought is to use the contribution record for each order but create a line item for each order line, but this could be different if I cannot get the search results required.

* what needs to be searchable?

I need to be able to search for the order item say t-shirt for a particular date or year initially and then use that in conjunction with other search criteria e.g. country, some of the queries could become very complex, but the date for an order line item is the problem at the moment.

* what are you going to display in the contact record? will orders be listed in a separate tab, or combined with other contributions?

This is up for discussion really, as the main criteria is to be able to search by date and item, as long as the orders are able to be displayed in a way that is easy to read. Whichever is the most effective and I can develop as I am new to CiviCRM development.

Thank you very much for your help.