[Zope] Another Zope E-Commerce Site Online

[Brad Clements]

On 6 Dec 2000, at 21:57, Bill Welch wrote:

> I found the shopping cart interesting. Did you start with an existing
> package or write it from scratch? Are you willing to share it?


There are four major parts to this system.

1. product inventory and descriptions - kept in Interbase, images in Zope

2. Shopping cart  - track qty of each item put in basket, this is just a 
dict stored in an SQLSession object

3. The checkout sequence - Interbase tables with Python code to 
populate them as each checkout step is completed

4. Charging the card - Wampum generator calling Cybercash.

Item 1 is very specific to this site, so there's nothing really worth sharing 
there.

Item 2 is trivial easy

Item 3 A lot of this is from my "toolbox" built on SQLDict. I'm hoping 
someday I can give it away, but my current customers have paid for it 
and aren't willing to give it up. Maybe next quarter when the current 
contracts are complete.

Item 4 Not mine, but I have some fixes to give back when I get my brain 
working again to do a decent job. 



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