Re: [PHP] Advise on starting a web store site
At 1:15 PM +0100 7/6/09, Matthew Croud wrote: Hi, I'm going to start my first e commerce website for a small web shoe store. I think I know enough PHP to keep my head above water, I'm using an add on shopping cart package to deal with the transactions. My question is, what's the best way to design a site where each product appears to have its own page. Is there a way to create the site *without* having each product have a physical separate page ? Is there a method of web design which makes creating new pages simple if they all follow the same pattern. i.e thumbnail, description etc. Thanks guys, Matt. Mat: Certainly, here's an example: http://ancientstones.com/ Each item is pulled from a database and the catalog is assembled as the user instructs. When the user clicks on an item, then an individual page is assemble to show that item. There are no static pages, but rather templates where the contents are pulled from a database to fill the templates (catalog page and item page) as the user shows interest. I also have a back-end script that allow the owner to upload pictures of his product and add content (i.e., title, description, price). Additionally, the shopping cart I use here is provided by PayPal and NOT something I installed. Believe me, dealing with credit card transactions is not without concern and liability. I recommend with a small web store, it is worth considering passing all that responsibility off to a company that deals with it routinely. It's a simple process to use PayPal. Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Advise on starting a web store site
Hi, I'm going to start my first e commerce website for a small web shoe store. I think I know enough PHP to keep my head above water, I'm using an add on shopping cart package to deal with the transactions. My question is, what's the best way to design a site where each product appears to have its own page. Is there a way to create the site *without* having each product have a physical separate page ? Is there a method of web design which makes creating new pages simple if they all follow the same pattern. i.e thumbnail, description etc. Thanks guys, Matt. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Advise on starting a web store site
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 08:15, Matthew Croudm...@obviousdigital.com wrote: [snip!] Is there a way to create the site *without* having each product have a physical separate page ? Is there a method of web design which makes creating new pages simple if they all follow the same pattern. i.e thumbnail, description etc. [snip!] Sure, just check Google and look into doing includes, templating, and using .htaccess with mod_rewrite - an Apache feature and module, respectively, thus beyond the scope of PHP - to rewrite the URL's. What this will do, essentially, is create a prettier URL, so something like: http://www.example.com/path/to/cart.php?product_id=1234group=987 could become: http://www.example.com/p987/1234.html or really anything else that you'd like, depending on how you write your scripts. Again, though, the full creation of those is really outside the scope of this list as well, but there are plenty of open source scripts out there from which you can learn, modify, and reuse free-of-charge for a commercial webstore. -- /Daniel P. Brown daniel.br...@parasane.net || danbr...@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/ Check out our great hosting and dedicated server deals at http://twitter.com/pilotpig -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Advise on starting a web store site
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 01:15:10PM +0100, Matthew Croud wrote: Hi, I'm going to start my first e commerce website for a small web shoe store. I think I know enough PHP to keep my head above water, I'm using an add on shopping cart package to deal with the transactions. My question is, what's the best way to design a site where each product appears to have its own page. Is there a way to create the site *without* having each product have a physical separate page ? Is there a method of web design which makes creating new pages simple if they all follow the same pattern. i.e thumbnail, description etc. Years ago, I used osCommerce for a site like this, and configured it to present a page full of items in one category. This wasn't done through PHP but through just configuring osCommerce. I'm not recommending osCommerce per se (I think it's currently not well maintained), but it stands to reason that other similar ecommerce suites would allow the same capability. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
