RE: [cobalt-users] Shopping cart revisited

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Super David wrote:
> > Has anyone out there engineered a shopping cart for the raq 4 in a 
> > .pkg format yet?  Somthing that can be layered across all of our 
> > hosts, and inexpensive
> >
> Hey David.
> 
> Well, haven't seen any good packages, but I have been playing 
> with the Exchange Project from http://theexchangeproject.org/ 
> Its quite comprehensive.
> 
now known as http://www.oscommerce.com/ 

> Its not too hard to setup and uses mysql. The only down side 
> is that it installs for one site at a time. I spent about 3 
> hours getting everything operational the first time. Setting 
> up the second one took < 1 hour (including writing down the 
> steps to automate it further).

It is easy to set up but as Rick says not that quick as there is no
documentation and the config file doesn't exist so you have edit some
files directly - if you wanted to have a RaQ that created it every time
you set up a site then you could do this by using the skel files buried
away in the admin server (hint do a search for skel in the archives)  By
doing it that way every time a site was created it would create a
default set of directories and files for the site including the
oscommerce stuff then you would just create the mysql database for that
user and then do the import, edit a few configs and you're done.

Regards

Gavin
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