[ale] e-commerce

[Mike Lockhart]

Raphael,

  To date I've built 15 e-commerce sites that incorporated catalogues,
images, and credit/check proccessing.  The easiest and most reliable
solution I've found is the following:

Slackware Linux
Apache
MySQL (don't use 4.x, use 3.23)
PHP
Authorize.net for the gateway
cURL (for authorize.net posting, compiled into PHP)

All of the sites that I have done had unique requirements that didn't
allow for the usage of a pre-built php e-commerce system, but there are
some out there that are easy (relatively speaking) to setup and
maintain.  About the only thing you'd have to do by hand is write the
interface to Authorize.net or PayflowPro (Verisign, another good gateway
service).  I believe some of these pre-built "shopping carts" have the
interfaces already built, but when it comes to processing someones card
or doing online checks, I don't trust somthing I haven't tested
extensively.  Hope this helps you out.

- mike

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 21:27, raphael wrote:
> Any recommendations about how to set up an e-commerce site under Linux?
> I guess that Apache and MySQL are the first step but how would one
> integrate them so that I can put together a catalogue online? That pulls
> data and images from a database?.  and eventually do some credit card
> billing???  
>  
> What is a good language to learn for this
>  
> Is there a free program/utility that helps publish a site
>  
> If someone has experience and can spare a bit of time, please give me a
> call at 678-907-3912 in Atlanta
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Raphael
>  
>  
>  


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