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Simplest PHP cart for downloads? (Paypal)
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:46 pm
by foobaa
Hi,
Sorry if this is in the wrong forum
Can anyone recommend the simplest way of creating a site that sells downloads? I'll be selling software with paypal.
I'm looking for something in PHP that works straight out of the box. (MySQL DB is ok)
Thanks
Edit: Just to keep it really simple, I don't mind integrating a script into a site's html that I knock together, but it must be quite simple

Re: Simplest PHP cart for downloads? (Paypal)
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:28 pm
by volomike
Sounds like what you need is a site script like at sitescripts.com or something. However, it takes experimentation. Another avenue is outsourcing it, such as putting the digital content on some other site and then they take a small percentage if the sale goes through them.
For me, I recently had a client who had a very small budget and he wanted a lot in that budget. He asked me for a CMS system, but I didn't like much of what I saw out there, so I wrote my own with categories, subcategories, and articles. But then when he wanted a product catalog, I simply forked the CMS code, added in prices on the articles, created a button to click to get the price translated into other currencies (thank you Google), and then added the PayPal Add To Cart and Checkout Now buttons, which were painfully easy to integrate now that PayPal has fixed their sandbox system and has made their API more reliable.
Also, recently I had to build a way to implement a subscription for site credits, and I integrated with Protx.com because that's what the client wanted. Well, it was a little more confusing in the docs compared to PayPal, but ultimately it worked somewhat like PayPal once I studied it.
And then the other avenue is to request someone build it for you by placing an ad on SitePoint or eLance or something.
Re: Simplest PHP cart for downloads? (Paypal)
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 2:50 pm
by John Cartwright
volomike wrote:ad on SitePoint or eLance or something.
or devnet

Re: Simplest PHP cart for downloads? (Paypal)
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:19 am
by josh
Magento supposadly has downloadable product support. So does my software ( view @ link in signature ), but mines not free, or open source... so Magento wins there..