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Shopping carts / e-commerce tuts & books?
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:43 am
by Chris Corbyn
Does anybody know any decent online tutorials or text books for writing shopping carts in PHP?
I've never done it. I've always been confused how you go about testing it (as in how do you test if making a payment actually does what it should do without actually making a payment?).

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:21 am
by rdionne1187
lol you could try paying yourself
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:29 am
by timvw
the easiest is to ask your payment service how to do this
otherwise you can create items that cost $0
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:22 am
by Chris Corbyn
Does anybody actually write their own shopping carts or just use pre-written one like the stuff that comes bundled in CPanel? It's something I'm now thinking is imperative for me to learn to make custom ones for business. I know it's a wide area, I just need something to get me started.
timvw... never thought about making items for 0.00 - that'd work well anyways. Cheers.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:31 am
by feyd
making a shopping cart isn't difficult.. the hard part comes when doing order processing and payment handling. I always contract a third-party for payment handling, as then I don't need to take the pain of having to be audited by the credit card companies and such. Plus if there is a problem with the credit card information getting out, most often it's not because of my service, but the provider of processing.. so liability is shifted away from me or whoever uses it.
Even order processing isn't too difficult now that USPS and other shipping companies have opened up their pricing systems for retailers to get live quotes.
True, they get a cut, but it's rarely a "large" cut.
Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:19 am
by Chris Corbyn
By order processing companies do you mean somebody like worldpay or something?