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HTML Shopping carts

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:21 pm
by vivekjain
Hi,
We have developed an E-Commerce site, which has a customized shopping cart. Since the products are numerous and the display of each product needs to be different, we have all the products in HTML page and not PHP pages. The product listing is not dynamic. Also, the site is optimized for search engines, it is preferrable to use HTML. Are there any shopping carts available for purchase, wherein it takes care of HTML listing of products. Hope I am clear.

Re: HTML Shopping carts

Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:31 pm
by Burrito
vivekjain wrote: Hi,
Since the products are numerous and the display of each product needs to be different, we have all the products in HTML page and not PHP pages.
that seems counterintuitive to me: different=dynamic=php!=HTML
vivekjain wrote: Also, the site is optimized for search engines, it is preferrable to use HTML.
not true, spiders are basically just user agents and they don't care how the pages are being served up by the server, all they care about is the end result (as a regular client would), you're not gaining anything by using static HTML vs php here.
vivekjain wrote: Are there any shopping carts available for purchase, wherein it takes care of HTML listing of products. Hope I am clear.
I think you're going to have to have some kind of scripting agent to process items in the shopping cart and ultimately check out. Otherwise, it won't have any way of knowing how much, what size, for whom etc. Static HTML is just that...static. You'd be much better served using a dynamic server side language such as php, jsp, cold fusion, asp, asp.net etc to accomplish what you're after here.

try googling "HTML shopping carts" and you'll come up with a plethora of information about how you can simply "plug in your html code" and make it work. But ultimately, they will all use some kind of server side scripting to accomplish the end task.

Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 1:10 pm
by Skara
To simplify what ^ said, html is markup; i.e. formatting. All anyone will be able to do is read about the products and look at the pictures. ;)