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[Mitch Pirtle]

Hey Faber.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:13:03 -0500, Faber Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> wrote:
> 
> My feelings exactly. I'm finding Mambo and phpshopcart to be a royal PITA to get
> installed.  Well, I can't even get phpshopcart installed since I'm
> getting fatal errors from the Mambo (PEAR?) libraries.

Nope, no PEAR libraries in Mambo, still waiting for a chance to put
ADOdb in there. Can you send the errors that you are getting? With
more detail I'm certain I can help.

Mambo and phpShop is actually the easiest way for anyone to get
started, so we probably just have a config or permissions problem.

> Now, it turns out that most of these shopping carts are overkill for
> what I need.  All I need to do, ecommerce-wise, is to track the items
> the end-user wants, gather up their pertinent info at checkout time,
> encrypt it all and email it to my client.  No credit-cards or Paypal.
> No online registration.

Sounds like you don't need a shopping cart as much as you need a
filebase, or some sort of file distribution tool. Mambo has several,
as do some of the other CMS' available. Maybe a shopping cart isn't
the best approach?

-- Mitch