Thread: E-Commerce

Hello,

Nows a day, quite many business man using e-commerce to gain money, but i really not so understand how to start a web with e-commerce, like, how to make it more secure, how to make it work? izzit just PAYPAL, WORLDPAY, 2CHECKOUT only can use to make e-commerce run?

can share your VALUE EXPERIENCE here? Thanks a lot!

it depends on really what you are looking for you. If you will be selling some products, perhaps those freely available store application like OSCommerce, Cubecart,Zendcart will be fair enough.. You will need to then configure the store with your store products ( RTFM ) :-)

Most of the store application out there nowadays ( as listed above ) has built in modules to support payment processing such as 2checkout, worldpay, paypal..etc What you will need to do is to sign up an account with either on one of the payment vendor and enter your account details in the admin modules and voila.. you are ready to receive order.

Well.. is not just only the above 3 is applicable out there, there are more available on the Internet such as Authorize.net , CCAvenue ..etc available. You will need to check out which one suits to your needs exactly.

Security is not a one time job but is a you will need to maintain it all the whiles. Accepting payments via online will need a SSL in order for the data to be encrypted. Also, you need to make sure your application is patched whenever there's a patch released by the vendor. Keeping your application up-to-date is the most important and don't blame your host if one-day your site is hacked due to there is a flaw in the application due to you have not perform the upgrade.

something to add on andy's reply, if u were planning to do this e-commerce urself totally (which is quite tough), then i assume u know little bit about web programming - php,html etc, if u do not know this..strongly advise u find a trusted friend who know this and work with him on your e-commerce. If not i will guarantee u will struggle a lot and wont go anywhere further...

Thanks Andy and Yipguseng

Really a good advice and tips to me. Well, i got install OS commerce, but, seem like something missing or need to add-on others thing to run it.

" Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory. "

Above is the message appear will open the page.

What can i do?

it turns out that the register_global is disabled on your host PHP global. If you are in Linux, you will be able to overwrite this by adding

php_flag register_globals on

into your .htaccess file

As a side note, I would recommend you to switch to other shopping cart, there's some exploit found in OsCommerce and the patch release by OsCommerce is slow. Change to ZendCart or Cubecart if this is an initial stage for you.

oscommerce shopping cart is free and there are a lot of modules there. However, you must turn on register global in order to use this open source code. You might consider some tweaking in order to secure the site

I use CPCommerce (opensource) .. no issues with the register_globals.

By the way, you do not really need SSL on your own site for accepting payment (like Paypal and 2Checkout let you use their own secured payment sevices).

If you do not like to edit PHP or ASP scripts on those free/opensource eCommerce packages then you can also purchase the local off-the-self type so you can get more support.


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