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Its finally happened, a friend has roped me into building him an online shop (not for free but for mates rates) If anyone has experience in the software available I'd appreciate your input. Thanks, David
-------------------- David Fisher D.A. & P.M. Fisher Services Brisbane Australia da_pmf@yahoo.com Trying out a new tag: "Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth Peter Ustinov Posts: 1450 | From: Brisbane Queensland Australia | Registered: Nov 1998
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There's a nifty one that uses ASP and an MS Access Database to generate a catalog on the fly. It contains the required ASP files to make it work plus a sample database. It's called VP-ASP, http://www.vpasp.com/
Then for the technical type, there's the good ol' perlshop.cgi, which is a CGI script written in PERL.. you basically make some changes to the script so the references in it point to your server.. http://www.arpanet.com/PerlShop/PerlShop.html
And of course, lately the big thing is PHP and SQL.. PHP is quick as snot and light on its feet in terms of server use, and there's a number of PHP shopping carts although I've never tried any of them: http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Shopping_Carts/
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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David, the shopping cart on my website came from E-Paynow, Rich Wood, email rwood@e-paynow.com.
In my case, I did not want to mess with code, so I flowcharted the site and did basic layouts, pics, etc. They did the coding and host my site.
They don't care if you design and host your own site, they set you up with links to their shopping carts and payment systems.
It works international. I have taken orders from England and the money got here.
Feel free to go into www.anchorblanks.com and "buy" something to see how it works. You can back out anytime right up to the very last click. It can't do anything without a credit card number in any event.
Vic G
-------------------- Victor Georgiou Danville, CA , USA Posts: 1746 | From: Danville, CA , USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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