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Majorix

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 96

Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Hello, a computer engineering freshman here.

My aunt and a few friends of her want to create a basic website to promote their goods.

As the only computer literate person in the family, I decided that I would take on the task of creating a basic website for them to use.

People should be able to register, enter their mailing (physical) address, order stuff, review their orders and so on. You should be familiar to this idea of a shopping website.

Let me ask the questions I have in mind:

1. The options I am considering to realize this site is to use Ruby/Rails or PHP. I am not very familiar with either, but I kinda find myself prefer the Ruby/Rails way. Can you compare the two, ups and downs, which is easier, which is more secure, which is faster and so on.

2. I will be mainly using Linux (Ubuntu and Arch[bang]). Which tools and software packages would I need?

3. And last but not least, I will need a quick introduction to whichever language/tool (PHP or Ruby/Rails) I will use. I have only 2 weeks time and I also have to attend classes at the college. I don't have much time to read too long a book. We have classes regarding programming so I am familiar to many of the ideas and I am a quick learner. So please, throw away

Thanks all for reading this and sorry for the long post.

PS: I am posting this on both Ubuntu and Arch forums so both Majorixes are me

Barrucadu

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From: York, England

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 1,158

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Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Rather than write something from scratch, I would recommend using a system such as osCommerce.

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Majorix

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 96

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Rather than write something from scratch, I would recommend using a system such as osCommerce.

Sorry, I have never heard of osCommerce. Can you explain it in a few words, like which language it is built on and so on.

Thanks.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsCommerce
Demo: http://demo.oscommerce.com/

Majorix

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 96

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Looks cool. Can I use this for a profit website or do I have to pay? I know it says "free" but just have to make sure.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Looks cool. Can I use this for a profit website or do I have to pay? I know it says "free" but just have to make sure.

osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free with a feature rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

lifeafter2am

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2009-06-10

Posts: 1,332

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

There are more than a few opensource e-commerce solutions out there.  Do some research and see which one seems to fit your goal best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fr … e_software

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Majorix

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Registered: 2008-01-31

Posts: 96

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Dude, are there a lot of solutions around

So if I want to implement any of them, I would have to find a server that would allow me to install one of the said solutions? Do all servers allow installing a new software?

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

Dude, are there a lot of solutions around

So if I want to implement any of them, I would have to find a server that would allow me to install one of the said solutions? Do all servers allow installing a new software?

Most (all?) of the questions you're asking would be more quickly answered by half an hour of googling.

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ixnine

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Registered: 2008-11-01

Posts: 60

Re: Creating a Basic Shopping Website

I've set up a shopcart on a free webserver before. I used CakePHP + mySQL.