I am looking for the best-practice solution regarding how to secure a "shopping-cart" part of an otherwise (relatively) unsecure website. The existing setup in the site uses an unsecure-cookie, and only secures (via SSL) the transaction of credentials. The rest of the site is accessed via HTTP and thus, data is transmitted unsecurely. ...
I am currently building an ecommerce site with PHP/MySQL. Recently, I have been working on the Shopping Cart integration. The client wanted to ensure that stock was available to potential buyers, so I created a stock management system. The shopping cart works as follows: Client adds a quantity of an item to his cart. Item quantity ...
For someone who would like to develop a webstore type web application, and at the same time learn about web development with rails, would you recommend using a shopping cart service or starting from scratch? I guess I'm not entirely sure exactly what shopping cart software is either, so if someone could elucidate this and explain why som...
Am in the process of implementing a fairly conventional shopping checkout flow. Currently it steps thru like: User adds an item to the cart and is presented with Step1 (login or register as new customer) User is presented with summary of current the order and a handful of controls that modify the order. After confirming the desired co...
Is there a gold standard among ecommerce shopping cart packages? I would prefer a .NET solution, but any suggestions are appreciated. I have been looking at ablecommerce and aspdotnetstorefront specifically, but both seem to have mixed reviews. Edit: To elaborate on my question, I am looking for a software package that is customizab...
I am in the process of making a website that involves a shopping cart. There are two major requirements: The user experience guys want login/authentication to be the very last step in the entire work flow. The user gets to do all the shopping and is asked to login only at the time of checking out. The shopping cart shouldn't expire(n...
Hello, I'm working on a shopping cart and my problem is, how should I design database for size selection for products? Tshirts can be "XL, L, M, S" etc. and shoes can be "36,37,38,39...blabla" Should I do just one size table or many tables for several types (tshirt, shoes etc.)? Thanks in advance... ...
Hi I am trying to build a simple shopping cart, i read about controlling them and see there are 3 ways to control them. one is cookies, another one is session based, and last one is database model. I am wondering which one is better choice ? some told that database method is better but its harder too. I am also looking for database model...
I am trying to build a simple shopping cart with rails, now I am able to add products to cart, I want to know how can I edit products while they are in cart, I am using sessions to control the products in shopping cart. here is what the user see when add to cart : <% @cart.items.each do |item| %> <tr> <td> <%= image_tag item...
i am creating a simple shopping cart in rails, when I add the product to cart i get this error : You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! the add to cart method is : def add_to_cart begin product = Product.find(params[:id]) rescue ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound logger.error("Attemp to access invalid produc...
I am building a site using code igniter. I am developing a custom product catalog using php and mysql. What is the best way to go about making those products purchaseable online. I thought about writing my own cart, but I am a little worried about how much time that would take. Most carts I come across online are full fledge invent...
I am shopping for a shopping cart(no pun intended), few requirements: php written supports several method payments: visa, mastercard, paypal easy integration well tested and stable html could be edited to make it look like a part of web site what are the big ones out there to use? ...
I am looking to duplicate functionality of a site I frequently use to purchase my own organic food and vitamins (http://www.iherb.com) whereby for users on the first order, they receive $5 off along with free shipping. If you enter the coupon code: GOV193 you get the $5 off. Likewise, you can generate future discounts based on the code...
Hi, We are in a process of making a shopping site. Here, the buyer can select the items of their choice and put them in shopping cart. These items can be from different sellers. Now, when the buyer makes the payment we want that the amount should be automatically deposited in each sellers account as per his product price. Please sugges...
Magento is an awesomely powerful ecommerce platform. That said, it is also very complex, and I'd like to know if there is a relatively simple way to utilize Magento as our mISV site's backend to fulfill orders without actually "using" Magento's framework to build the site, run the site, etc. In other words, I don't want to use the buil...
ISO 3166 has a list of 2 character country codes such as US, UK, FR. A shopping cart I've used has both these codes and also the culture codes such as en-US or en-UK. For a separate project I thought that the longer code is more useful because it at the very least tells me the language used by that country. But i cant seem to find an a...
Can anyone give me the 411 on shopping carts? I have a client that wants to sell gift cards on their website but I would like to find a quick-to-implement solution (5 to 15 hours). The only thing we would sell is gift cards (just one gift card in different amounts - they are gift cards for the client's restaurant) but we don't want to j...
Is Magento usually so terrible slow? This is my first experience with it and the admin panel simply takes ages to load and save changes. It is a default installation with the test data. The server it is hosted on serves other non-Magento sites super fast. What is it about the PHP code that Magento uses that makes it so slow, and what ...
I'm looking into building a web app that allows multiple e-commerce stores to coexist on the same installation and lets allows each individual vendor manage their own products, pricing, sales reports, etc. I know that there have been a number of previous questions on the Stack regarding the best shopping cart software, but this is a bit...
Alright another tough question for you guys to answer. I know I don't make them easy or common. My problem comes in when a user clicks on My Cart while they are already logged in. It some how resets the sessions and logs them out/empties their cart. I also get a fatal error telling me the notify function is not accessible under the o...