Mike MacKechnie Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 My client has been offered the merchandising for a potentially different set of customers, and has asked me if we could create a separate Product page for this merchandise, with a different skin that has the same look and feel as their home web site. So I can see two possible ways of achieving this; either (i) have a product page that uses a different skin to the rest of the store, or (ii) specify the skin name in a query string, so that we can supply a link that looks like www.mystore.co.uk/theseproducts.html?skin=mynewskin which would then set the skin for that session. Has anybody developed this functionality? I would prefer option (ii) myself as I think the visual shock of going from one skin to another during the checkout process might put some potential customers off. Apologies if this question has been asked before, but I've done the usual searches to the best of my ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 When one considers that acquiring CubeCart is at zero initial cost, what might be the issue of running two separate stores? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike MacKechnie Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Yes that option did occur to me, after I had created this topic I have suggested that to my client as an alternative - I would still be interested to hear if anyone has explored option (ii) though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsmither Posted February 25, 2016 Share Posted February 25, 2016 (ii) specify the skin name in a query string The querystring part would be: ?select_skin=kurouto|green where kurouto is the skin name and green is a substyle (if substyles exist for that skin). This also requires that the Store Settings, Features tab, "Allow users to change front-end skin" be enabled. But you can remove the selector from the skin template. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike MacKechnie Posted February 25, 2016 Author Share Posted February 25, 2016 Thanks Brian I tried that with a skin picked off the shelf at the Extensions store and it worked a treat! The skin was pretty rubbish though, but that's another story... Thanks. Question answered perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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