[thelist] Basic e-commerce

[Kevin Timmins]

I have just looked at ZenCart, and whilst it looks interesting, my actual 
interest is in how it works, not something that just works out of the box. 
Programming at the moment is a hobby for me, my clients are my parents, and 
their needs have been covered tenfold.
also, if everyone just used processes that were already there then pretty 
soon no-one would understand the processes and would just be clicking for 
certain modules without truly knowing what was happening :P (sorry if that 
came across as snappy, it wasn't meant to be)
building a shopping cart is easy, either just using sessions or for long 
drawn out orders a simple database entry should cover my needs for returning 
customers etc.
thank you for your reply, the products do look interesting and i will look 
into them still
kevin

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From: "Krystian - Sunlust" <sunlust at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:59 AM
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: Re: [thelist] Basic e-commerce

> I think that youree trying to invent the wheel.
> why don't you just use a shopping cart like magento or zencart?
>
>
>
> On 4/5/09, Kevin Timmins <kipper_timmins at live.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> For a long time I have been interested in how it is possible to sell 
>> things
>> online. Designing the product pages is easy, my real question is how do 
>> you
>> process payments? Does anyone have any experience with building this kind 
>> of
>> website? This is in part as a response the the PayPal thread by Bill 
>> Moseley
>> because it looks like it is that kind of thing I should be looking into, 
>> i
>> just didn't want to steal the thread.
>>
>> So the scenario is, I have built and maintain a website which is 
>> essentially
>> a picture gallery of wildlife, however some customers may wish to 
>> purchase a
>> more professional print of a picture than they can print off from the 
>> lower
>> quality web versions.
>> So next to each picture there would be a button saying buy which would
>> redirect to a page with a unique id number so the picture could be 
>> obtained
>> by the website owners, not me, and then they would print off that picture
>> professionally and mail it to the customer.
>>
>> How would i process payments in this process? The server they are hosting 
>> on
>> isn't a "secure" server, i.e. there is no data encryption as of yet 
>> because
>> I don't know how. So the payment details entering would have to be done 
>> on
>> some other server, I am assuming if i am using PayPal they will handle 
>> that
>> right?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time
>> Kevin
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