[FX.php List] shopping cart solutions and filemaker

[Bob Patin]

Stephen,

I'm hereby PROMISING I'll be at DevCon this year. I went to MacWorld  
Expo and had a ball, and it made me realize that I need to make the  
effort and go to Devcon as well, where I know I'll have an even  
better time. It's already on my calendar...

As an unsolicited testimonial, if I hadn't taken the course down in  
Orlando with you guys, I probably would have put off learning PHP for  
another year or more. Sure, I could've learned it on my own, but I  
probably would've procrastinated forever... Allyson does a great job  
of presenting the core fundamentals, and got me started in a big way.

Best regards,

Bob Patin
Longterm Solutions
bob at longtermsolutions.com
615-333-6858
http://www.longtermsolutions.com

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On Feb 6, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Stephen Knight wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Very nice work on the sites.  Ally says thank you!  See you at  
> Devcon this
> year?
>
>
> 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 Bob Patin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 6:06 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] shopping cart solutions and filemaker
>
> 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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