Hi Stramm,
Sorry about late reply, it was a tough week after having my laptop stolen, followed by flu (stress and sleepless nights) and then having my German Shepherd disappear (not good, he is too aggressive - more stress and more sleepless nights).
Well, finally recovered from the flu, my German Shepherd came back healthy (so far no complaints from anyone) but my laptop is sadly gone forever.
Anyway, down to work again - Yes I made the changes in the language files as per your documentation, however the country field still appears as "necessary" - whether I add all countries or not does not seem to make any difference, even so I do not want this option included anyway since I am only dealing with digital downloads and "country" would be irrelevant anyway. Perhaps I can ask is it possible for me to remove all php code references to Street, Address, Town, City, Country and Zip codes since it is really only the email that PayPal is interested and certainly in my own PayPal purchases that is all I have ever needed to enter.
Meanwhile, I have gone back to starting at the very top of the shop process:
This is the method that seems to offer me the best scenario, perhaps you can help steer me in the right direction (I appreciate your time on this and other projects that you have, so I am looking more for some simple advice rather than coding examples)
First I have Coppermine set so that all casual non-registered visitors can see all images (except full size originals) and listen to all music but they cannot download full size originals or music tracks, however there will be random freebies available. This setup is mostly accomplished using standard Coppermine "Congifuration" options.
The next level of access to the media would be the CPGShop level. At this moment I have decided that I like this following method:
A Paid Registered Account - Users simply buy a membership and can see and download all full size images and music for a given time period or for a predetermined number of downloads. In this example therefore, add to cart/and cart options are not really necessary. To accomplish this a user who registers is sent to Paypal - to complete the registration process a PayPal payment must be made, and once payment is recieved this user becomes "registered" and as such gains access to all full size originals and download links. Once again, the Coppermine "Configuration" options are enough to manage media access control but it appears that this would not be monitored by cpgShop (number of downloads/download time limits etc. which would need to be implemented in another manner since selected items are not being added to a cart)
My question on this point is would I really need cpgShop at all, or is it better to continue with cpgShop for it's PayPal options (this is not intended as an attempt to bypass cpgShop, rather the contrary, cpgShop has many useful features worth retaining, however I guess I would need to strip out/hide lots of code and add further modifications). Any ideas?
Best Wishes