[FX.php List] shopping cart solutions and filemaker
Bob Patin
bob at patin.com
Tue Feb 6 17:12:12 MST 2007
FXCart is set up to talk to Verisign, and they have another version
that talks to Paypal. The Verisign version that I used uses their
pages to actually take the card number.
In my latest cart I used Cybersource and wrote my own pages for
processing the credit card info, and then I POST all the data
directly to Cybersource; they call that a "silent POST."
Here the problem I've had with a hosted order page, where the gateway
provides the page for capturing the credit card info:
1. Customer goes to cart, selects items, is ready to checkout
2. Customer is sent to the gateway's page, where the credit card info
is captured and processed
3. Customer returns to cart site, where emails are sent to the seller
and to the customer, and the database is updated--the sale moves into
a different table from the "temp orders" table
Step 3 is the problem; to return to the cart from the gateway, the
customer is supposed to click a button. However, if they DON'T click
the button, then the emails never go out to the customer and seller,
and the order isn't written into the Sales table.
So I've moved away from using the hosted order page because it's too
error-prone; now I use a page of my own to capture the credit card #
and then send it to the gateway, but the customer never leaves the
cart site. This way I'm assured that the database will be properly
updated and that the emails will go out to the customer and seller.
I think Verisign uses both methods (silent post and hosted page);
Cybersource definitely does. I just did a site with Cybersource last
week...
Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
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On Feb 6, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Does the cart solution talk directly to the cc gateway, or does FMP
> do that using a script?
>
> J
>
>> Stephen,
>>
>> I started with FXCart and modified it for use with my clients. To
>> be honest, it required a lot of work before it met my clients'
>> needs. However, it does have the basic structure that a cart
>> needs, so if someone wanted to use it as a starting point, that
>> would be a good thing.
>>
>> You can see the results of my mods to FXCart in several sites:
>>
>> http://www.crystalgayle.com/cart/index.php
>> http://www.margem.com/cart.index.php
>>
>> I added a lot things, like related items so that when a customer
>> pulls up an item, they can see similar items (a la Amazon, etc.).
>> I also made it possible for one of my clients to put up special
>> items on the cart's home page (on margem.com), so that they can
>> feature items; it's all done using the database. Plus I wrote an
>> entire backend for the cart so he could manage it without having
>> to own FileMaker. The backend allows image uploading, complete
>> setup of new items, etc.; it was probably more work than the cart
>> was, as it turned out.
>>
>> However, for a starting point, i think FXCart is useful; it saved
>> me from having to write the basic cart structure, which was good.
>>
>> And to think, I didn't know any PHP until I went to your 8-hour
>> PHP workshop... I owe it all to Allyson! :)
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Bob Patin
>> Longterm Solutions
>> bob at longtermsolutions.com
>> 615-333-6858
>> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
>>
>> CONTACT US VIA INSTANT MESSAGING:
>> AIM or iChat: longterm1954
>> Yahoo: longterm_solutions
>> MSN: tech at longtermsolutions.com
>> ICQ: 159333060
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Stephen Knight wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> There are actually quite a few people using FXCart, Jerry Robin site
>>> http://www.cdtrainingstore.com/ and also there are some examples at
>>> http://www.fmwebschool.com/fmstudio_contest.php Matter of fact our
>>> FMWebschool website has run on FXCart for the past 2 years and
>>> autofills all
>>> of our orders.
>>>
>>> Now, yes - many times extra work is needed as it is difficult to
>>> provide a
>>> solution that is cookie cutter and fits everyones needs. So,
>>> honestly,
>>> FXCart will most likely require some modification :)
>>>
>>> Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In Kindness
>>> Stephen K Knight
>>> http://www.fmwebschool.com
>>> 800.353.7950 / 386.453.5843
>>> FMWebschool, we bring the web to life
>>> FX.PHP PHP XML MySQL CDML ASP
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>> [mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Alex
>>> Gates
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:56 PM
>>> To: 'FX.php Discussion List'
>>> Subject: [FX.php List] shopping cart solutions and filemaker
>>>
>>> Hi everyone-
>>>
>>> I was wondering if any of you have any experience with some
>>> shopping cart
>>> solutions that work with FileMaker.
>>> Have any of you used FXcart?
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations?
>>> I'm not so sure that one of these "boxed" solutions is
>>> necessary. There are
>>> many php shopping cart tutorials online - I suppose it's just a
>>> matter of
>>> determining what I need to store in FileMaker.
>>>
>>> We use authorize.net and are somewhat anxious to replace our broken
>>> ColdFusion solution... We'd really like to use FileMaker, of course.
>>>
>>> Any advice is certainly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Alex P. Gates
>>>
>>>
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