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Gil -> RE: Shopping Carts/Front Page (1/13/2002 15:11:48)
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I'm having trouble understanding the different methods employed by shopping carts to work with Front Page, (or any site for that matter). Would appreciate a clarification on any of the following as I'm truly wallowing here.
.) cgi-perl: I understand this to be a code that you install on your site, (vs. on the server?),
1st - CGI stands for "common gateway interface" and can be Perl, PHP, C++ or a number of other programming languages.
2nd - Your site IS on the server, so the answer is a Rerl script is installed on the server in a directory set up (permissions) to run CGI scripts.
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so you have total control over using/tweaking etc. These are usually the less expensive way to go, however take more expertise to install and manage. Within the cgi-perl shopping carts some say they use an html cart, (Commission Cart, cgiscriptcenter.com), others a tab delimited data file, (the free GoCart onlinearts.com), and others, (such as merchant order form), which uses Perl 5.1, say don't use Front Page to install as FP doesn't install or edit cgi-scripts, as it changes them into binary code on publishing.
Synergyx.com also uses Perl5 with cgi-bin, however in their case, most of the program resides on their server.
A "shopping cart" front end is normally nothing more than a set of HTML forms/tables that send a call to a Perl/etc. script.
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To summarize:
cgi-Perl can reside within your web site or on the server, or both?
See above
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Information for the cart can be in a database, and ascii text file, a tab dilimited data file, or an html cart?
Comments greatly appreciated. Regards, Scotty
Yes for the DB, text file,tab delimited file - never heard of a HTML cart file?
Gil Harvey
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