I have a shopping cart application written in perl. It uses PostgreSQL. It runs on the apache web server under Linux. The application is still under development, as there are some features I would like to add, and some html improvements I will eventually be working through the entire application. I spent some time today looking into how ajax might help me in the shopping cart application. Perl has a good module to handle ajax code. Here is an example of a web page I revised over the last couple of day using ajax:
http://www.smvfp.com/cc_quote.html My application uses the database to hold items placed in the shopping cart, rather than cookies, and it maintains a history of shopper transactions, so a user can log in and review their account or purchase history. The applications is unlimited as to the number of shopper accounts, (eg registrations), items that can be placed into a shopping cart, the number of products that can be entered, as well as the transaction history. Products can be referenced into revenue centers, which would allow the merchant to sell items assigned to him by third parties for a commission. The shopping cart currently has code to work with both Echo Electronic Clearing House, Inc, and Linkpoint International, through their perl APIs for processing credit card transactions through their gateway. I'm personally using the Echo gateway. The shopping cart can handle the download for sale of digital products like video files or computer applications. The program is not well tested, and as far as I know, I'm the only one currently running it. The application can be downloaded for free, but if someone decides to use it in production, I ask that a license be purchased. I have written VFP front ends to PostgreSQL, and VFP works great with PostgreSQL, but I haven't really found any need for something along these lines for my shopping cart, since perl currently handles everything needed to administer it, including sale price changes. I'm currently still running VFP 8. Here is a link to a demo: http://www.smvfp.com/sm_demo/kart_main.pl There are hundreds of shopping cart application out there. Here is a link to more shopping carts from the Echo website: http://www.echo-inc.com/shopping_carts.html If you are only going to have 40 product tops and want a really simple cart, you might want something like: http://www.prostores.com/ Regards, LelandJ ken.com wrote: >I have a web site with apache2 & postgres with code in Perl that runs the >Authorize.net secure payment page and paypal. I would >like to have a pretty simple but nice looking shopping cart with about 40 >items that seldom change in price, etc and is easy to >maintain. I prefer open source like Zen of course. I would like to be able to >update the prices from a VFP9 program. > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
