I don't have my workstation at home set up (yet) to run PHP & MySQL so I
can test this here.. Perhaps I should do that tomorrow.. However,
there isn't much point if I can't in the end get it to work on the
"live" server too..
Mike
John King wrote:
> 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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