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getting started with shopping cart

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:38 pm
by tbbd
I am going to be taking over a website that will be selling items. I am very familiar with php and setting up a page to get the basics going, lay out the page, put products in the db, display all the products, I can even make a shopping cart (will work like inventory lists I have done many times on the past, just show what items that they “own” which would be cart items, I got all that under control… the issue is I have never done a shopping site before, so I don’t know what I will need in order for people to check out and accept a CC payment
I have been reading some things and seen that I will have to go thru a gateway.. ( I seen this from a program like Agoracart), is that something I can setup somehow, also this site has a physical store that accepts CC payments, should I be able to call them and have them be my online gateway? I am trying to stay away from something like agoracart, cause it is just an html cart with no db, and it pretty much is the site itself… I already have the site in place, I just want to put a “add to cart” button in the while fetch array for the product list and then have people be able to check out securely with a CC..
thanks for all your input and suggestions

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:53 pm
by MrPotatoes
just so you know there is software out there already that can handle this really realy well. just not coded awesomely. zen cart is such an item. http://www.poweredbyford.com is a site that i work on and it's done in zen cart

granted i would have preferred to do this from scratch tho. thier code (imo) is just terrible and horribly organized.

you can go there and get the code for any of the cc things and just apply it to your site :D

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:52 pm
by tbbd
Thanks for your input, that Zen cart looks like something I can use, I'll just talk them into using paypal for the gateway, it appears to be so much easier to get setup and working.