[Coco] "See, click, and get" CoCo gallery?

[Roger Taylor]

Hello gang,

Hey, it's raining in Texas today...  is a "See, Click, and Get" CoCo 
gallery idea too much?  I don't think so.

Now that I am programming in PHP/MySQL, I think I can bring the CoCo Store 
idea back but in a different way.  With a CoCo gallery of photos already in 
place and new members getting their own albums, I think I can integrate the 
same PayPal system into the gallery.

The overall concept I want to pull off is a Click and Get system.  Some 
links that go along with each gallery photo will be one or more of the 
following:  1) a link to your CoCo web site, 2) PayPal Buy Now button with 
inventory control, 3) safe e-mail link to you (not exposing your e-mail 
address)  When somebody buys your item, it will go directly to you.

What I have in mind is this...  you are browsing through the gallery and 
you see this fine looking EPROM burner for the CoCo and you *really* want 
that sucker... and you notice that there is 1 available for sale along with 
a Buy Now button just waiting to be clicked... so you click the button and 
you're sitting at the PayPal web site with all the information and a 
Confirm button... you click it, and the item is yours.  When you are 
returned to the site you notice that it there is no Buy button anymore, but 
there's an e-mail link to the owner.  Ofcourse, he'll get the order within 
a minute or two and work on getting the item shipped to you.  I'll just do 
the inbetween work and let the web site reduce his inventory automatically, 
etc.

The idea is to see a person, software, or CoCo item for sale and be able to 
click on one of several links to get that item or contact that person or 
his web site, etc.  The integration with the CoCo gallery to achieve all of 
this will take about a month, I'm guessing.

Suggestions?

-- 
Roger Taylor