Why don't you set up both programs on your pc and evaluate them. Not only
will you learn heaps about apache etc., but you'll also discover that
FishCart and FreeTrade are very different in the way they approach things.
I've had FreeTrade running on my PC but I've never tried FishCart for some
reason.
Regards,
John
Mike Gifford wrote:
> 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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