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![]() | Shopping Cart / Secure CC checkout I am making a site for a friend, and she wants to sell post cards. Does anyone know how to make shopping carts and secure credit card checkouts? Or do i have to buy the scripts from some place? and if so, where at? thanks in advance |
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![]() ![]() | Your best option would probably be to either buy the scripts from someone else or use a free one. There's a ton of them out there. For payment processing one option is to use a third party payment processor, alot of them have shopping cart scripts that they'll let you use for free on your site and will work with their services. Probably one of the best, if not the best free shopping cart type script: http://www.oscommerce.com/ A paid shopping cart type script: http://www.miva.com/ A few payment processing companies that I know of: http://paysystems.com http://2checkout.com http://paypal.com To get credit card processing set up without using a third party payment processor like one of the ones above you will have to get a merchant account. |
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![]() | cool. thanks for the info. the lady has a credit card machine at her little shop. You know they one you slide CC's through or just punch in the numbers. Therefore, I assume that she has a merchant account cause she has the manual one? Correct? If so, how would I set up an account with someone that already has an existing merchant account? |
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![]() ![]() | Yes, if they have the manual card swiper then I think they would have a merchant account. They will need to contact their merchant provider to find out how they can get set up to process credit cards online from their website. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/programming/14982-shopping-cart-secure-cc-checkout.html You can usually find a list of shopping carts and other scripts that will work with the merchant providers set up on their website. If you're going to be setting it up, then you'll really want access to all of the documentation for the merchant/gateway account. The merchant provider may also provide some plug and play (copy and paste) code that wil work right away, once you get things enabled, but it will most likely be basic and not have any type of shopping cart functionality. Most shopping cart type software that you will use directly with your own merchant account will require you to do certain things like change certain settings, possibly enter your merchant number in the config and some stuff like that. One other thing is you'll want to run all the transactions from an SSL Secure Server and purchase a valid SSL certificate. So I think your first step would be to have them find out about getting the online processing enabled on their account. Once you're sure that they're able to do online transactions, you'll need to know which merchant account/gateway they will be using for it, so when you're out searching for shopping carts to use you'll be able to look at which payment processors they support and know if you'll be able to use it or not. Well I hope that explains it a little bit Feel free to ask if you have more questions. |
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![]() | ok, so I have been flooding myself with php for the last couple days. Thanks for the info by the way. I went with osCommerce. I set up a local host with EasyPhp and have been playing with the shopping cart for a few days now. I just cant seem to get the email to work locally. I dont know whats going wrong. osC has a forum also. But I couldnt get help there. After I get the email thing figured out, I am on to figuring out the Secure Server site thing. That is gonna be a pain I bet. |
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![]() ![]() | You can try changing these settings in your php.ini to see if you can get the mail() function to work on your windows machine. Search for this in your php.ini file PHP Code: PHP Code: |
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![]() | this is what i have: [mail function] SMTP = smtp.west.cox.net ;for win32 only sendmail_from = myname@cox.net ;for win32 only ;sendmail_path = ;for unix only, may supply arguments as well (default is 'sendmail -t -i') It says it send the email successfully at the top, but I never recieve anything. |
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![]() ![]() | Try sending it to a different email address. It may just be the address you're sending it to is rejecting it. Try sending it to your email that you have with your isp if you haven't already. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=14982 Here's a little code to try it out if you need it: PHP Code: |
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![]() ![]() | Copy it to a blank text file, save the file as mailtest.php, make sure it ends with a .php extension and not .php.txt. Put it where ever you have your other html and php scripts (most likely in your "htdocs" folder if you're using apache) and call it up in your browser. |
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![]() ![]() | By the way, don't forget to change toyourmail@yourdomain.ext to the actual email address you're trying to send it to. |
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