Please make a tutorial

Hi,

I'm trying to create a plugin for HikaSerial, so that I can finish this workflow:

Objective: A store for digital products
a) with only one (for now) dowloadable digital product
b) configure simple checkout process with paypal payment and a digital product (file) download
c) when the game is bought an email is sent to the user with a custom serial number. For instance, the serial number can be something like: md5(<user email>+'somerandomstring' + reissues_counter)
d) serials can be re-generated for a specific user (thus the reissues_counter thing)
e) when the user starts to play the game:
e.1 - s/he enters his/her login and serial number
e.2 - the game client sends the data to the server invoking an HTTP URL (php script)
e.3 - the game site/server validates the information and sends the client a response

I installed hikashop and hikaserial, but how to I get started creating this plugin.

A basic tutorial would be great, instead of searching bits of information here and there on this forum.

For instance, which files do I need to create and where do I put them?
How do I consume a serial in step e.2?

TIA,
Rod

Hi,

Did you look at the developer documentation ?
www.hikashop.com/en/hikashop/125-hikaserial-developer.html

Some documentation about the "consume" is missing but we will work on documentation this week.
I will include some information about HikaSerial webservices too.

The consume html page is:
Using webservices, in the front end, to check a serial, you can call an url like this :
It would result something like this: You can use XML, JSON and HTML formats.

After that, there is the "consume" feature.
You can consume a serial which is "assigned".
For example, I can call the URL
And I received:
The webservice is compatible with html POST request.
So you can make a post request to the url And give the rest of the parameters by POST ( hikaserial[serial_data] / hikaserial[format] / hikaserial[serial_extra_data][] )

Regards,

Hi,

The documentation has been updated.
There is now a dedicated page to the consume feature: www.hikashop.com/en/hikashop/138-hikaserial-consume.html

Regards,

Hi Jerome,

Thanks for your promptly reply.

I think it's useful to document that the developer should look in /plugin/hikaserial/ for examples. Since I came from a different programming background I don't know upfront where joomla things are located.

Thanks again,

R.