Anyone know how to do online shoping carts?

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I am trying to do online shopping for my wife's business but I have no clue how to do an online shopping cart.
 

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Second this question... I know there are some pretty nice online SC management services, but I have very little knowledge in this area... Would love to add one to my site...
 

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SweetD, you might want to ask Chandler Mike, I'm pretty sure he has done this before. I have never done one.

These scripts are very common and usually written in PHP/MySQL or Perl/CGI. If you want to host the shopping cart on your site, if you go to google and search on "PHP shopping cart script" or "CGI shopping cart script" you will get tons of hits for both free and pay software.

Also, some companies can host a shopping cart for you, I know paypal offers this for example: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/sc-intro-outside
 

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There are some really good free open source products out there.

I have used Zencart for some people and everyone has liked it. It's very customizable, integrates with paypal and your credit card merchants

http://www.zencart.com/
 

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jw7 said:
These scripts are very common and usually written in PHP/MySQL or Perl/CGI.]


usually written in PHP/MySQl??? Says who? :)

Seriously though. I am a/was a programmer and 90% of my friends are programmers and not a single one of them knows PHP. And only one know MYSQL. Its not that huge of a market share especially in ecommerce. You can find plenty in .NET or I could write you one in 3 lines in CF ;)
 

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usually written in PHP/MySQl??? Says who? :)

Seriously though. I am a/was a programmer and 90% of my friends are programmers and not a single one of them knows PHP. And only one know MYSQL. Its not that huge of a market share especially in ecommerce. You can find plenty in .NET or I could write you one in 3 lines in CF ;)

What does .NET use as the back end database? Don't say MSSQL, I'll stab you. MySQL is so easy to use, especially with PHPmyadmin and other tools out there. Plus it's free!
 

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What does .NET use as the back end database? Don't say MSSQL, I'll stab you. !

OK, Sql Server 2000 or 2005. Or, even Oracle!

Ive made dozens if not hundreds of applications and websites, 2 or 3 of them are nationally known. (The Do not call registry?)

Never used PHP or MySQL. :)
 

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PHP and Mysql are so easy to use, and again.... FREE! You don't need a windows environment to run a webpage, thus less hardware and again, no licensing fees. I am running on my companies Intranet a PHP embedded HTML webpage with a Mysql back end from a workstation in runlevel 3 on Linux

No GUI, no crap
 
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I have a SQL database so that's no problem. How much would it cost to have someone intergate and create it for my wife's site?
 

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Linux/Unix ugh. Same with Oracle. There is a reason these companies are worth a fraction of what Microsoft is worth. And Microsoft is pulling away.

Linux/Unix = DOS + Why sit there and type on a black screen and do in 10 minutes what it could take to do in 10 seconds with a GUI? :)
 

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swd1974 said:
Linux/Unix ugh. Same with Oracle. There is a reason these companies are worth a fraction of what Microsoft is worth. And Microsoft is pulling away.

Linux/Unix = DOS + Why sit there and type on a black screen and do in 10 minutes what it could take to do in 10 seconds with a GUI? :)

Sorry but Microsoft is not "pulling away" they are losing market share every single day. The United States is the only country in the world that still uses Microsoft on a large scale anymore, and it's because we have to think about the id-git sitting at the terminal who can't learn anything else..... but that's okay because India will do it faster and smarter
 

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The India market fell out about 6 months ago for two reasons

1) Most of the top programmers are actually coming here working for staffing companies making great $. I know I work with a few. And ALL of them are microsoft guru's :)

2) Most comapnies are finding they arent happy with the accent barrier when it comes to interpersonal communications.

And if Microsoft is losing share who is gaining? Sun? Oracle? Linux? all of which have companies far below microsofts market capitalization and falling furhter still?

Sun has been awfully close to bankruptcy for a long time and Oracle is being run out of town by SAP.

I believe there are half a dozen linux companies onyl one doing half decent.

I go on monster there are 300 .net developer jobs in my area. My coldfusion has almost been totally cobbled up by .net. There are a few java openings but not many.

A few Oracle and a whole lot of Sql Server. Thats why i moved to Project Management. :)
 

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lol, tech threads gone wild.

The first rule of tech forum is....you do not talk about tech forum.
 
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I think my wife is going to look at Go Daddy's little plugin.
 

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SweetD said:
I think my wife is going to look at Go Daddy's little plugin.

You lucky dog!

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SweetD said:
I think my wife is going to look at Go Daddy's little plugin.


The shopping cart the great, but there are limitations. Let me know if there are any questions about it. You can also try OS Commerce.
 
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