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does anyone know if the free shopping cart software is very hard to install, my new hosting has php and mysql and it may be best for flash magic. I want to install it to flashmagic/catalogue. Anyone have any tips before i risk wrecking all my files!

stephenmagic wrote:does anyone know if the free shopping cart software is very hard to install, my new hosting has php and mysql and it may be best for flash magic. I want to install it to flashmagic/catalogue. Anyone have any tips before i risk wrecking all my files!

Mate...

If you're adept in:

1. Php programming
2. Server architecture
3. Basic HTML
4. MySQL and it's basic operation
5. Bughunting
6. FTP—uploading, moving, renaming, chmodding and permissions etc.

then yeah, go for it.

The NUMS site runs with a seige-modified OSCommerce shell, and it literally took a month before it was functioning right.

Luckily, as a web designer, I know PHP, SQL etc. and mostly I sailed through it. But when you hit a brick wall, like knowing what your sendmail root is, or your server root path (i.e. not http://flashmagic.co.uk, but something like var/bin/domain/user/httpfolder/flashmagic/store)

It all gets a bit long winded, and unless you have a good background of how a server operates, and how to use something like phpMyAdmin to setup your tables etc. in your SQL database, then I'd leave it alone.

Your site currently is functional, and works. But obviously as time goes on, you'll need something to handle more products etc.

OSCommerce is a fantastic choice, but in my opinion, it's aimed at developers.

Installing and hacking OSCommerce is one of my everyday chors at work so do let me know if you'll need any help...as seige said it's not easy if you're not "very good friend" with PHP and MySQL....

thanks, i will go for the ready made package at £19.99 per month.

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