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Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:40 pm
by realestninja
Can anyone suggest a nice tutorial on making an online store? I have a Beginning PHP/MYSQL book but it doesn't really get into the details of making an online store, like
http://www.bestbuy.com, or
http://www.circuitcity.com . It does not even have to be that extensive.
I'm also willing to pay someone who can teach me over yahoo messenger, or aol messenger how to make a online store. I can pay over paypal.
Email me or yahoo messenger me at "
realestninja@yahoo.com"
and my aol messenger name is "aloneatsupper"
thanks.
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:48 pm
by califdon
Google php script internet store
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:51 pm
by Luke
Making an "online store" is not a trivial task. I've been working on an ecommerce application for months (years if you include
devnetstore) and I'm still nowhere near started. You'd be better off choosing one of the open source (free) ecommerce applications out there. Check out
Magento,
OS Commerce,
X-Cart, and
Zen-cart.
OSCommerce is the most well known, and Magento is the newest.
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:53 pm
by realestninja
Ninja goat those are the items in like the hosting company's main page right? So if I use that software is it easy to make an online store?
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:59 pm
by Luke
I dont know anything about them being in any host's "main page". I assume you mean you have some sort of control panel that offers to allow an easy install of these types of apps. I can't recommend installing any of these applications from a control panel as I've never done that. I've heard that installing and customizing oscommerce can be hell, although I've not had that experience (but then again I havent done much w/oscommerce) As for magento, I have heard really great things about it. Go to their site and download it. Install it on a local server (
xampp,
wampserver) and mess around with it. Once you get your store configured and you're happy with it, move it to a live server.
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:08 pm
by califdon
realestninja wrote:Ninja goat those are the items in like the hosting company's main page right? So if I use that software is it easy to make an online store?
It will never be easy to make an online store. It's a really complicated job, even for experienced programmers. If you're doing this to learn about programming, that's fine, but if you want to start up a real commerce web site and you don't have the programming experience, I don't think you will get very far.
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:10 pm
by Benjamin
I wouldn't say that it would never be easy. To the OP, what sort of feature set are you looking for? I'll give you a rough idea of what you'll need to do.
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:33 am
by malcolmboston
califdon wrote:
It will never be easy to make an online store. It's a really complicated job, even for experienced programmers. If you're doing this to learn about programming, that's fine, but if you want to start up a real commerce web site and you don't have the programming experience, I don't think you will get very far.
From someone who does this for a living, with a few successful eStores, i would personally say that you need a sound understanding of many area's of programming and web security before you should even start looking at producing a eStore on a 'transactional' level.
If anyone tries to break your site (which they do, believe me!) and discovers SQL information or basically manages to get information they shouldnt, your in for a world of <span style='color:blue' title='I'm naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> from the lawyers and you can pretty much kiss goodbye to your job, if it isnt your job but your actual business then you can kiss goodbye to any future sales as customers simply will not feel secure on your site, which is absolutely top priority for any web store.
my $0.02
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:49 am
by Kieran Huggins
You could use a service like
http://shopify.com
Re: Can anyone show me how to make a internet store?
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:49 pm
by califdon
That's definitely a good way to go (I don't know anything about that particular one). The bottom line is that a real e-commerce operation can be a nightmare if it isn't set up correctly, including security, as mentioned above. To set one up correctly from scratch requires a lot of experience and knowledge. If you are an amateur, or just dabbling in it, I urge you not to try to put a real operation online without professional help. If you just want to learn more about programming a complex site, and it's only a demo, then that's fine.