damian has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i know Perl is capable of handling e-commerce and actions... and i want to get my hands dirty with perl on developing an e-commerce site. is there anywhere on the net where i can get some information or tips or tutorials on how i can build an e-commerce site with Perl? thanks in advance

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RE: e-commerce or auctions with perl
by BigJoe (Curate) on May 26, 2000 at 05:29 UTC
    You can go to a site www.freecode.com they have some perl stuff for carts and auctions. Or get the PERL Cookbook for great information on programming structures for perl programming.
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(crazyinsomniac) Re: e-commerce or auctions with perl
by crazyinsomniac (Prior) on May 26, 2000 at 09:22 UTC 
    Hi,

I suggest you check out this book:

CGI for Commerce: A Complete Web-Based Selling Solution
(Imprint: M & T Books) 
(Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.) 
   Authors: Selena Sol, Gunther Birznieks 
      ISBN: 1558515593 

You can download it for 'free':) at http://come.to/manualz
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Re: e-commerce or auctions with perl
by anders (Initiate) on May 26, 2000 at 15:53 UTC
    Hi,

    I'm writing some commercial applications in perl (I write anyting in perl...).

    I use the MySql database, availible from http://www.mysql.com for u*x and windows platforms, apache with mod_perl and a SSL enabled apache as well.

    I suggest you take a good look at the perl docs for the CGI and DBI modules, and the documentation for the database engine you use.

    There is a VERY good book about apache/mod_perl from o'reilly: "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" by Stein & McEachern.

    -Anders

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RE: e-commerce or auctions with perl
by t0mas (Priest) on May 26, 2000 at 11:06 UTC
    Here's a link for you: EverySoft have a free (GPL) auctioning script written in Perl. Seems to handle most things of this "flavour" of e-commerce.
    /brother t0mas
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Re: e-commerce or auctions with perl
by princepawn (Parson) on May 26, 2000 at 17:59 UTC
    Take a look at: http://www.opensales.org or http://www.tallyman.org And then help one of these efforts as opposed to re-inventing the wheel.
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Re: e-commerce or auctions with perl
by Aighearach (Initiate) on May 26, 2000 at 09:44 UTC
    I would highly recommend examining mod_perl for Apache. You also might want to check out the apache SSL module. 
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