On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:14:33AM -0500, Diego Henao wrote:
> I have a question about a project that I have. I am trying to design a
> website. I have some experience with Frontpage and DHTML. I think this
> knowledge is good to design a simple website. Now, I am trying to go
> forward and create an e-commerce website. I don't know where to start for.
> I want to have different users ( login password screen). Also I want to
> have a shopping cart and a database to manage inventories.
>
> I know that it is not easy, but I don't know from where I can start. Any
> suggestions or personal experiences will be more than welcome and helpful.
You do _not_ want to build an ecommerce solution from scratch. Use one
of the free ones. I use one called commerce.cgi (Google for it). This is
based on another package called Extropia. And there's one called (I
believe) Agora, that's based on commerce.cgi. Pretty simple to set up
and run. No logins, though. The system assigns a unique number to each
session, and this is passed as a parameter any time the user changes
pages, and is used to key all their transactions. The "database" can be
done several ways, but normally it's a pipe-delimited flat file in a
subdirectory. Credit card processing requires either a handoff to
another service that does that, or you processing the cards yourself;
you get half the credit card number emailed to you, and the other half
is obtained from an admin program sitting on the website.
Paul
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