-----Original Message----- From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Ben Ocean

Or, would I be better off trying to port the PHP app into Zope? Or proxy-passing back and forth between Zope and Apache?

I wouldn't try to mix the PHP cart with Zope. That would be too much trouble, IMO. I've done many carts in Zope, and found that they are all similar, but different enough to where a cart "product" would probably be too limiting. Many of my carts require specialized options for each item and other fancy calculations depending on choices made during ordering. It's easy enough to build a custom cart using CoreSessionTracking and a few Python Scripts for add/update/delete and DTML methods for viewing the cart and checking out. Basically, I have a session variable 'cart' that's an array of dictionaries, where each dictionary looks something like {'Qty': 2, 'ItemNum': 'ABC123', 'Price': 12.95} along with whatever other info you have for each item. I also usually use a session variable 'custinfo', which is a dictionary of the customer information during checkout. I'll be glad to send a .zexp of one of my simple carts for you to poke around with if you like. _______________________ Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc.

On Thursday 08 November 2001 03:11, Ben Ocean wrote:

I need a shopping cart for an app I'm building in Zope. I've worked with a cart built in PHP and been quite happy with it. I notice that the only product currently available for this app in Zope is zCommerce. There has only been one developmental release of it and that was well over a year ago. Has anyone had any good experience with this app? Or, would I be better off trying to port the PHP app into Zope? Or proxy-passing back and forth between Zope and Apache?

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