Re: Shopping Carts/Checkout Software

Try Zencart. Thank you, Micah Gersten onShore Networks Internal Developer http://www.onshore.com Charlene wrote: > Dan Joseph wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Charlene <cawroblew@netscape.net> >> wrote: >> >> >>> The company I work for is going to be creating the catalog to a >>> small store >>> (~100 items). The customized catalog will include the front end >>> that the >>> shoppers will use as well as the back end data entry. >>> >>> We need shopping cart/checkout software, preferably PHP (since that >>> is what >>> we will be using for our site) and uses MySQL as the database. We >>> want to >>> be able to hook our customized software into the software package >>> (ie we're >>> not using their data entry into the catalog). We don't want to be >>> limited >>> to just one shopping cart/checkout software package and this may >>> become a >>> product we use for more sites. >>> >>> We have been forced to use a few products since the clients bought the >>> package themselves but I'm not real happy with any of them. >>> >>> We do our own hosting. >>> >>> Charlene >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >>> >> Check out osCommerce (oscommerce.com), its open source, written in >> php, uses >> mysql, and you should be able to hook into it pretty easily like you >> want. >> >> > My boss is a little biased against it. We converted a client from it > a couple of years ago. The replacement wasn't much better. I don't > know what version they were using of osCommerce, but the credit card > numbers were being stored in plain text in the db. While we were in > the process of converting but after taking over their hosting and we > had to quick get them to sign an agreement that we weren't responsible > for credit card information being stolen while they were using the old > system. > > If you know of a good review for osCommerce I can use to convince my > boss it is very much improved in the last 3 years, I'd appreciate it. > > Charlene >