Good PostgreSQL Based Shopping Cart Software ... ?

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#1The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org

Got a client that needs a shopping cart, and if I can help it, would
rather offer them a 'ready made' package and then customize that to fit
their site visually, then build everything from scratch, and only give
them 10% of the features of a full package ...

It doesn't have to be OSS ...

Searching the web, I'm finding alot of MySQL based ones, but few that
support PostgreSQL ... I'm not overly particular on language though ...
PHP prefer'd but perl or python is cool too ...

The key requirements are that its PostgreSQL based, and, visually, will be
easily customized by a non-programmer ...

Again, the shopping cart itself doesn't have to be free ...

Can anyone recommend software that they've been happy using? That has a
rich feature set? For instance, some that I've come across has a 'gift
registry' feature, and/or gift certificates, etc ...

Thanks ...

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#2Robby Russell
robby@planetargon.com
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#1)
Re: Good PostgreSQL Based Shopping Cart Software ... ?

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 00:46 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Got a client that needs a shopping cart, and if I can help it, would
rather offer them a 'ready made' package and then customize that to fit
their site visually, then build everything from scratch, and only give
them 10% of the features of a full package ...

It doesn't have to be OSS ...

Searching the web, I'm finding alot of MySQL based ones, but few that
support PostgreSQL ... I'm not overly particular on language though ...
PHP prefer'd but perl or python is cool too ...

The key requirements are that its PostgreSQL based, and, visually, will be
easily customized by a non-programmer ...

Again, the shopping cart itself doesn't have to be free ...

Can anyone recommend software that they've been happy using? That has a
rich feature set? For instance, some that I've come across has a 'gift
registry' feature, and/or gift certificates, etc ...

http://www.pgcart.com/

runs on php and pgsql 7.3+ (tested 8.0) today

An example of it running:

http://www.johnbenzart.com

demo of admin:

http://www.pgcart.com/pgcart_demo/pgcart_demo_1.htm

Cheers,

-Robby

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#3Sim Zacks
sim@nospam.com
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#1)
Re: Good PostgreSQL Based Shopping Cart Software ... ?

The best and most flexible shopping cart I have ever used is Interchange,
www.icdevgroup.org. It is open source and freely downloadable. I've had
experience writing some custom discount functions and it was fairly simple.
Other then that I used it mostly out of the box.It has a great user
interface

The documentation says that it supports postgresql, though I have no direct
experience with that.
--from the docs---

2. SQL Support
==============

Interchange can use any of a number of SQL databases through the
powerful Perl DBI/DBD access methods. This allows transparent access
to any database engine that is supported by a DBD module. The current
list includes mSQL, MySQL, Solid, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Sybase,
Informix, Ingres, Dbase, DB2, Fulcrum, and others. Any ODBC (with
appropriate driver) should also be supported.

No SQL database is included with Interchange, but there are a number
widely available on the Internet. Most commonly used with Interchange
are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle. It is beyond the scope of this
document to describe SQL or DBI/DBD. Sufficient familiarity is
assumed.

In most cases, Interchange cannot perform administrative functions,
like creating a database or setting access permissions. This must be
done with the tools provided with a SQL distribution. But, if given a
blank database and the permission to read and write it, Interchange
can import ASCII files and bootstrap from there.HTH
sim

""Marc G. Fournier"" <scrappy@postgresql.org> wrote in message
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Got a client that needs a shopping cart, and if I can help it, would
rather offer them a 'ready made' package and then customize that to fit
their site visually, then build everything from scratch, and only give
them 10% of the features of a full package ...

It doesn't have to be OSS ...

Searching the web, I'm finding alot of MySQL based ones, but few that
support PostgreSQL ... I'm not overly particular on language though ...
PHP prefer'd but perl or python is cool too ...

The key requirements are that its PostgreSQL based, and, visually, will be
easily customized by a non-programmer ...

Again, the shopping cart itself doesn't have to be free ...

Can anyone recommend software that they've been happy using? That has a
rich feature set? For instance, some that I've come across has a 'gift
registry' feature, and/or gift certificates, etc ...

Thanks ...

----
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services

(http://www.hub.org)

Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ:

7615664

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#4Richard Huxton
dev@archonet.com
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#1)
Re: Good PostgreSQL Based Shopping Cart Software ... ?

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Got a client that needs a shopping cart, and if I can help it, would
rather offer them a 'ready made' package and then customize that to fit
their site visually, then build everything from scratch, and only give
them 10% of the features of a full package ...

It doesn't have to be OSS ...

I didn't get around to using it, but I evaluated the following and was
reasonably impressed:
http://www.clickcartpro.co.uk/

There is a version for the USA too. Perl based, management interface,
template based layout etc.

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

#5Chris
pglist@gmail.com
In reply to: Sim Zacks (#3)
Re: Good PostgreSQL Based Shopping Cart Software ... ?

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:59:44 +0200, Sim Zacks <sim@nospam.com> wrote:

The best and most flexible shopping cart I have ever used is Interchange,
www.icdevgroup.org. It is open source and freely downloadable. I've had
experience writing some custom discount functions and it was fairly simple.
Other then that I used it mostly out of the box.It has a great user
interface

The documentation says that it supports postgresql, though I have no direct
experience with that.

It does. We have several interchange catalogs running postgresql.

Chris