Re: Shopping Carts/Checkout Software

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Charlene <cawroblew@netscape.net> 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 > Strange, I did not know that about osCommerce. I would hope in the last 3 years they would have changed that, but I have no idea. -- -Dan Joseph www.canishosting.com - Plans start @ $1.99/month. "Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for the rest of the day. Light a man on fire, and will be warm for the rest of his life."