[FX.php List] shopping cart solutions and filemaker

[Bob Patin]

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
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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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