[thelist] What shopping cart is this?

[deke]

On 31 Aug 2001, at 12:58, Cancilla Dominick posted a message which said:

> I've been asked to "reverse engineer" a Website for a small store whose
> Webmaster skipped out on them. The owners of the site know nothing about
> how the site was put together and don't even have the passwords to the
> server it's on.
 
> As part of the job, I need to figure out what shopping cart system was used
> so that I can recreate the site on a new server with a minimum of work. The
> main page in the store contains the following code, which I'm hoping will
> tell someone out there what cart system is being used (or if it's a custom
> one):
 
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"
> SRC="Program/ConfigSHPro.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javaScript"
> TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="Program/SHPro35.js"></SCRIPT><SCRIPT
> LANGUAGE="javaScript" TYPE="text/javascript"
> SRC="Program/SHProHelp.js"></SCRIPT>
 
> Any help?

Clue one: Webmasters rarely skip out, leaving the owners without
passwords to the site unless they refused to pay him. Get your
money up front - or at least most of it - or you'll be working for free,
too.

Clue two: www.google.com

Clue three: the src is "SHPro35.js", which would tend
to suggest version 3.5 of SHPro

Clue four: if you don't have access to the server files, it
will be *harder* to rebuild the data files than to start over
and build Version Two of the site, which is easier to use,
produces more sales, and is far easier to maintain. No
reason to use the same shopping cart.

Don't let bullies on the beach kick sand in your face and
tell you you're a clueless webmaster. You have *four* clues 
now.

deke

















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