Hello!

I am searching for an online-shop software based on xbase++ (and WAA?) ready
for use on our web-server (MS).

We have installed the low entry demo-shop from alaska...but there is much
work to do to develop a state-of-the-art-shop...

MfG,
Roland Gentner

Hello Roland,
I use the open source oscommerce shop. The database behind is MySQL and I 
have written a interface from my ERP System to the shop. It is much better 
and easier then writing your own shop.
regards
Rudolf

"Roland Gentner" <rg@gentner.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Hello!
>
> I am searching for an online-shop software based on xbase++ (and WAA?) 
> ready
> for use on our web-server (MS).
>
> We have installed the low entry demo-shop from alaska...but there is much
> work to do to develop a state-of-the-art-shop...
>
> MfG,
> Roland Gentner
>
>
>
>
>

Roland,

> I am searching for an online-shop software based on xbase++ (and WAA?) ready
> for use on our web-server (MS).
> 
> We have installed the low entry demo-shop from alaska...but there is much
> work to do to develop a state-of-the-art-shop...

You can write an on-line shop in Xbase++ pretty easily - it's just a matter
of attaching a shopping cart to your pages so a customer can add an item to
it, and when they wish to purchase the items, send them off to one of the
following:

1. A credit card handler (usually a bank). Usually this entails several
steps:
  a) Send a GET string to the bank which contains the amount requested and
     your merchant id plus a transaction id of your discretion. This then
     returns the same details encrypted.
  b) send your customer (via a redirect) to the credit card handler page
     where they perform the credit card transaction.  When the transaction
     is completed, the credit card handler will redirect the customer back
     to a nominated page on your site.
  c) When the credit card transaction is completed, the credit card handler
     calls a URL on your site (usually a CGI script) where they will send
     the result of the transaction (amount, success, the transaction-id you
     nominated) so you can make a record and do any further processing
     (i.e. authorise dispatch of items).

To be professional, you need to create the functionality for the customer
to tinker with the shopping cart - increase/decrease the quantity ordered
for an item, remove items from the cart, vie detail pages for items in the
cart etc.

Making it LOOK professional is really down to the layout (positioning) and
other design elements (fonts etc).  This is best achieved using CSS,
because that way you can change the way the page looks without recompiling
- just edit the style-sheets. The layout of the form controls for the
shopping cart can also be changed using CSS, but essentialy the form
elements and their positions are pretty static.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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