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Hi Peeps

This is well off the topic of magic so here seems a good place to ask.

I'm in the process of doing a web site for a peep & he is massively enlarging the site with all sorts of goodies for sale.

So far for sales I have been using Buy Now buttons from paypal, very easy to do but I want to extend this so they can actually have a shopping basket, so that postage can be worked out according to country & they can also choose postal options, all at the checkout.

So can anyone recommend what is the easiest & best shopping cart system. I want to avoid monthly payments thus idealy want something free or a one off payment.

I'm fairly capable with CGI Bins, Pearl etc as long as the installation instructions are clearly explained.

Appreciate any tips. Thanks.

OSCommerce

www.oscommerce.com

A piece of cake to implement, and if you need ANY assistance, give me a shout.

NUMS, WIzmo, etc. are all based on OSCommerce.

It's free, expandible, and very easy if you've got programming knowledge.

Thanks for that, am downloading now & looking forward to reading up & hopefully installing over the next few days.

Yes I recommend osCommerce, but you'll have to install loads of contributions.
After working for weeks on my shop I found CREloaded, which is basically osCommerce, fully modded.

I strongly recommend you get this instead, it will literally save you weeks of work.
http://www.creloaded.com

Hade wrote:Yes I recommend osCommerce, but you'll have to install loads of contributions.
After working for weeks on my shop I found CREloaded, which is basically osCommerce, fully modded.

I strongly recommend you get this instead, it will literally save you weeks of work.
http://www.creloaded.com

However... OSCommerce is FREE. CRE isn't. And CRE is basically OSCommerce for people with either no understanding of PHP/Perl, or developers who don't get their hands dirty.

There's not really that many contributions needed in OSC. Depends what you want it to do really. Out of the tin, it comes fully functional. The contributions added are just what you 'want'.

Plus, with a basic knowledge of scripting, the OSC construct is pretty simple, and it's VERY easy to write in your own mods etc. E.g. I've almost completely re-written the admin on NUMS to make it work for me. Very simple.

Am just gonna read through & install, but in the meantime what are contributions?

Guess I'll figure this out shortly anyway but for now, confused

Johnny Bravo wrote:Am just gonna read through & install, but in the meantime what are contributions?

Guess I'll figure this out shortly anyway but for now, confused

Contributions are user additions which let the shop do advanced things. They're bolt-ons to add functionality.

Like I said though, if you're a scripter, you can pretty much tailor the standard base OSCommerce to suit your own needs.

OK am stuck on the word go,

"Using PHPMyadmin or another tool create your database & user"

Mmm this is gonna play harder than I hoped judging from the above & this line, off to their forums I go!

You can also find some Shopping Cart scripts (freeware,shareware and commercial here) :

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_a ... index.html

Johnny Bravo wrote:OK am stuck on the word go,

"Using PHPMyadmin or another tool create your database & user"

Mmm this is gonna play harder than I hoped judging from the above & this line, off to their forums I go!

That's pretty standard stuff.

To use OSCommerce, you need a MYSQL database.

Thanks for that link, am currently upping the oscommerce one, if initial installation goes okay will prob stick with that, as they seem to have a pretty good forum for support.

Failing that will look elsewhere.

seige wrote:However... OSCommerce is FREE. CRE isn't.

I didn't realise, I thought CREloaded was free too.

Yes I love the structure of osCommerce, very organised snd easy to mod.
Plus the community is very helpful.

Johnny, visit the osCommerce forums if you need help with osc, theyre very active and you'll get all your questions asked no probs.

Hade wrote:I didn't realise, I thought CREloaded was free too.

It *kind* of is free. But you're supposed to donate etc.

Mmm to be honest I've given up on it, probably for good.
Client I am doing this for doesn't have hundreds of things for sale, just around 40 or so & all I really want is to be able to add to shopping basket feature & to be able to have the buyers select their country so that different postage prices will apply.

I've never mucked around with MySQL, it's activated on the web space I'm using but I lost it on oscommerce when one of the installs said upload all of the catalogue files & then go to www.yoursite.co.uk/install

When no install was put into the root folder!

Have looked around & am just downloading paypal shop builder. Maybe this will suit my little mind better.

Well, for only 40 items, the best thing to do is PayPal's own basket system, which works fine.