I agree with Jon, get a better ISP.
If you are looking for ISPs make sure that they run PHP as an Apache module
and not as a CGI process (big speed difference). I know that Leon has
recommended he.net to others.
I believe that Leon has a tutorial which was started a while ago by a
FreeTrade enthusiast. It starts well, then stops. However, it will be useful
in the initial setup of your shop. I think he is posting it soon.
As for other products, I hate to do this :-) but there are two other open
source PHP products that I am aware of:
The Exchange Project and PHPShop. You may want to do a search on them.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Gifford
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [FreeTrade] Fishcart vs Free Trade
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm setting up a new shopping cart system for a small book store that is
> looking to expand on the Internet (as there is no room to do so in the
> store). Both Fishcart & Free Trade seem to offer what I'm looking for,
> in that I'm looking for code that will work on PHP3/4 with MySQL running
> on a Unix/Linux machine.
>
> I had initially hoped to set up both and then compare how they ran &
> choose from there. Unfortunately, I've run into some problems
> installing both of them.. I don't have shell access to the server and
> am limited to one database & using phpMyAdmin to manage the database. I
> also can't use .htaccess files as the server that I am running does not
> have PHP installed as a module. The server is running Solaris & Zeus/3.3
> The php stats can be found here:
> http://octopusbooks.org/php.php3
>
> Fishcart!
> With Fishcart, I get stumped really very early in the installation
> process
> ./install.pl -d mysql
>
> Although I do have a firewall that I could play with this on, I won't be
> installing it there for the production version. Why can't I just have
> access to the PHP files & the mysql tables? I'm confused by this rather
> unusual installation process.
>
>
> FreeTrade!
> With FreeTrade I was able to get a little further, as you can see from
> this URL:
> http://octopusbooks.org/shop/htdocs/index.php3
>
> Still a really long way from working. Again, from the INSTALL there is
> the assumption that you have shell access to the server. Worse still is
> that it looks like this requires Apache modules to set up and run this
> program. There's no way I can do that on this server...
>
> Any suggestions? Any other applications that I should try? Is there a
> more comprehensive howto somewhere?
>
> Please let me know. Also, I expect that the database will grow into
> hundreds if not thousands of records as they are constantly getting new
> book titles.
>
> Mike
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