Shopping Carts

[Walter Vaughan]

mtauber19 at patmedia.net wrote:

> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation for setting up a shopping cart on the 
> web using filepro cgi as the database?

Find one *you* think is the best fit for your B2B or B2C customers, since there 
are none AFAIK that talk directly to filePro databases. You are going to have to 
export the data from whatever datastore your shopping cart keeps in to filePro.

For example if you use OSCommerce or one of it's derivatives, they typically 
store the information in MySQL. You will then have to write exports from MySQL 
into a format that can be imported into filePro. All of this is going to be 
custom work.

While it can be done, filePro CGI is not probably the best tool to accomplish 
what you want to do.

You also may want to investigate full blown ERP's that contain all the back 
office apps that you already have in filePro that also contain a webstore 
component. OpenBravo and Opentaps come to mind, as does totally web based 
solutions like NetSuite.

YMMV

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Walter