joseph harris wrote:
I am starting at the beginning again with planning a site, and again
this will be to do with selling a book, but it will also contain a lot
of other material and some sort of forum or, more likely, a 'questions
answered' newsletter.
I do not favour any DRM, but don't want the download page exposed or
available to non-payers. I am reluctant to think HTTPS, though I know
how sensible it is. But I was thinking that maybe [I am using PayPal for
payments] there was a way of linking the PayPal transaction number to
the download.
This is a fairly common thing to want to do, and isn't that hard to
achieve. Googling for "sell digital products" will find you various
pre-written solutions which may be of use to you.
I'd recommend checking out osCommerce first - it's a popular, free,
open-source shopping cart which supports digital products:
http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce
Others include:
http://www.zen-cart.com/ (free again)
Given programming experience, writing a custom system to do this
wouldn't be all that hard, either. (But if you choose to do it
yourself, learn secure coding practices first or have someone
knowledgeable check over the code before it goes live; when you're
dealing with E-commerce stuff you don't really want to be making mistakes :)
I am again looking at PHP/MySQL since I should be able to remember it
fairly easily, though I might stick to CSS1, since the emphasis has to
be on writing and marketing.
I fail to see the relevance between PHP+MySQL and CSS?
Cheers
Dave P
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