Specifications

This has a lot of advanced features such as customer tracking, timed sales, multiple languages,

credit card processing, and support for multiple online shops on one server. The current ver-

sion (at the time of writing) is written in PHP 3 and uses PHPLib for session control.

Of course, when you use an existing system, you always find there are things that it does not

have that you want, and vice versa. The advantage of an Open Source product is that you can

go in and change the things you don’t like.

In the next chapter, we’ll look at how to build an online content management system suitable

for managing digital assets—this can be useful if you are running a content-based site.

Building a Shopping Cart

HAPTER 25

UILDING A

SHOPPING CART

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