LeonardChallis

That sounds cool, but am I right in saying that we would have to have a seperate package for the ones we sell and the ones we add as an addon? And subsequently have to copy/paste emails and stuff like that?

Any example addons?

I have setup all my web hosting packages and grouped them in to a package group, linking with cPanel nicely. I am now creating some web design products with the universal module, which is easy enough, but we offer free web hosting when people purchase web design. Is it possible to make this automatic with Blesta some how? So say we have bronze web design, they get free bronze hosting, silver web design gets free silver hosting and so on. When they choose the web design package the web hosting one will also be selected (and they will still be able to enter domain and cPanel will still be setup and all that magic). Couldn't see it in the documentation anywhere. Cheers Leonard

Thanks guys, I think I didn't explain myself correctly. I certainly have made my own folder (leaving bootstrap alone), but what I meant is that in the structure.pdt there is code linking CSS, JavaScript, etc and I wondered if I need to keep all of those in the HTML? For instance, it might look great on the front page, but there may be other places (i.e. in the client area) that could break as I took something out.

Thanks Licensecart, your various posts around the forum are helping me get to grips with Blesta a lot! I wanted to ask, is there any information aynwhere on which css/javascript/etc includes should be kept in the page when I make my own custom structure.pdt file? I want to make sure I don't lose anything needed (for instance the icons in awesome fonts would break if I removed that CSS include) but at the same time I don't want to a) make it harder to overwrite styles and add loading time to requests by having unnecessary stuff in there. Currently I have copied the bootstrap folder and am in the process of making my own client theme so that I can style the web site how I wish, integrating it with my site.

Sorry for the slow response guys, been away for my birthday. Thanks a lot for the replies, this has given me a really good start to continue reading and learning. I'm tempted to try stay as much with Blesta as possible and just make it look and work how I want. Thanks again, Leonard

Hi everyone, I've been working on some stuff for Blesta for our new company recently and I seem to be going round in circles, so thought I'd post here. I don't seem to be able to find the answers on the forum here or in the documentation, but if that's more down to my inexperience with developing for Blesta and there are decent links, please do send me away to read. There's nothing worse than someone asking for all the answers without wanting to try first! So what I'm doing I didn't expect to be anything too outrageous or new. Firstly, I need to make a payment gateway. The main problem I'm having here is that I want to have a custom payment form (i.e. I don't want to show the normal credit card inputs but do some custom javascript on the page with some gui elements first). I don't seem to be able to find any examples of creating my own templates (views?) to override what's there, or hook in to it somehow. Note that I want this to be something I can properly package up, to distribute over various installs, without overwriting core files and invalidating updates. My next question is in regards to selling domains. I saw a couple of really helpful posts by Licensecart (setting up products without modules, selling domains, etc) but in my case I am wondering if it's possible for me to do this in such a way that products be created (or at least updated) in a custom manner. We use a domain reselling API and we want to base prices off of that, as well as that vast number of domains available (and things like checking if they're available, and so on) - so would this be a) possible and best done with a custom module? Finally, a more general question. We have the cPanel module installed and this seems to be hooked up nicely. We will also offer other products and I don't see too many more problems apart from the domain one mentioned just above, in terms of integrating with Blesta. But, it seems like a lot of work to style Blesta or use it as our main site, so I presume the best thing to do would be to have most the content and product selections from our own site which then passes over to the blesta billing site? I suppose it's a trade off, but is there any accepted ways of doing this? Can I add things to the cart easily from our static site, and optionally allow customers to go back to the main site from Blesta if they want to add more, really leaving Blesta as the payment gateway (and client area) more than a full on shop? Sorry for my rambling, I hope I made sense. Regards, Leonard