Hi,

Someone awhile back asked about pure perl shopping carts. I mentioned Perlshop because the code was simple and it was fast.

To "cut to the chase" go to http://zentara.net/store and test the sample store and administrator. Details below. You can download it if you want.

Use it if you want, improve on it, email me questions if you need help setting it up. My sample store dosn't have a secure server available, but the code works with a Secure Server if available.

My goal is to make a general purpose small scale store for farms or small home businesses.

This is not an "Enterprise Level" ecommerce solution, but more of a "mom and pop online store". But it would suit the needs of a small operation.

Before I even knew the difference between $ and @, I setup my first store with Perlshop. It is an older store, that used ReadParse, but otherwise worked nice. All these new stores coming along are so complex, that I always liked Perlshop better, because I could understand the code and modify it to my liking. Also, it had a very nice method of generating a SHA1 page key.

As my "pet project" to teach myself some Perl, I have improved the old Perlshop(which is GPL'd), and added an administrator.

My improvements:

• switch to use CGI.pm (for params only)
• added credit card encryption
• switch to using Taint mode.( Surprisingly, Perlshop was Taint checking all variables except 1, which I fixed.)
• I stripped out all Perlshop code regarding cc verification,and put in a custom routine which works with Bank of America. This was done to reduce the code complexity. The original script tried to be easy to setup for anyone, my approach is to customize and strip code out.
• In order to make it easy to test offline, and/or do online testing without bothering BOA's test server, I have a fake response generator, (respgen.pl) which simulates true and false responses from BOA.
• I added a csv database method of generating the catalog pages,thumbnails, and individual item pages with full photos and description. It is called csv2catalog and is in the cgi-bin/store/csv directory.
  Eventually I will have a system where you just put photos and descriptions in a directory, and a script will generate everything automatically.
• The admin cgi is all mine, and I'm still working on it.
• The verifier script boacc.pl, works, but needs security improved. But it's adequate for a test store.

Have fun,
zentara

Edited ~Mon Apr 15 04:31:06 2002, by footpad: Fixed HREF and revised formatting.

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