> Business::CreditCard implements the classis credit card
> checksum algorithm. That's it! (they promise to offer C/Card
> m,erchant connection facilities in the future ;-)
hehe =) oh well, saves some time atleast.
> > I _doubt_ there is anything like lotus that is GPL, generally i think
> > the idea is to build little generic modules and glue them together as
> > you want. Like shell commands sorta.
>
> It ain't rocket science to roll your own :)
MS would have u think it is though, and for your average user who has
gown up in win95 (oh for the days of win311 and bbs's), editing config
files is just way too hard, not to mention....compiling.
> Hmmm ... methinks the "e-commerce" buzzword is more hype
> than reality. e-commerce is, as you say, really just gluing
"e" is glued on eveything thing these days, i wonder what would have
happended if email had of been called d-mail (digital mail)...
> pieces of existing technology together, i.e.
>
> (*) online credit card merchant facility
> (*) a web server or three
> (*) a database
> (*) a persistence mechanism ("sessions") for shopping carts
> (*) a good MIS in the backend to control and track it all
> (*) some scripts to glue it all together
Freshmeat has some good php3 script sets that, with a little reworking.
Would likely save you alot of time. I think everythinglinux.com.au is a
good example, i dont think they built theres from scratch although
anthony will likely prove me wrong =)
But yeah, freshmeat is a good place to start. Look through the weeks
backlog thingy on the sidebar.
> The only thing it costs is your time.
Thats the thing with "free" software, very few have nice happy
"autoplay" cdrom installs with nice script kiddy style interfaces.
Instead your left with bare config files and enough power to sink the
titanic =)
Dean
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