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Integrating Slash with e-commerce?

posted by Krow on 06:27 PM December 16th, 2002      

Does anyone know of sites that have integrated Slashcode with some sort of e-commerce / shopping-cart system? Or, how that might best be done? I'm looking at open-source e-commerce packages such as, for instance, phpShop (http://www.phpshop.org) and osCommerce (http://www.oscommerce.com/) and wondering if and how they could be melded with Slashcode.
thanks, Tim.

• What about Interchange? (Score:2)

  by dave_aiello (52)

  I've been working with Interchange [icdevgroup.org] for the past few weeks, at the behest of a client. This seems like it might be a good Slash integration candidate, given that Interchange's core components are Apache and mySQL, although mySQL is only one of the database choices.

  FWIW, the backend is similar to Slash in some respects.

  I don't actually have a single server running both applications at the moment, otherwise I'd have more substantive comments. But, let me know if the idea of using Interchange intrigues you, and I will try to relate some of my installation and configuration experiences.

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  Dave Aiello
  Chatham Township Data Corporation [ctdata.com]

  • Re:What about Interchange? (Score:1)

    by smallclaims (4643)

    yes, any installation and configuration experiences with Interchange would be very helpful to know. My further research also suggested Interchange as a leading candidate: not only because it is, as you said, Apache and mySQL oriented, but because it also appears to have a highly active development community, and is written in Perl -- an advantage from my standpoint. So relate away!
• Interchange Installation Highlights (Score:2)

  by dave_aiello (52)

  I'll try to hit the high points of the Interchange installation I did for a client earlier this month. I will probably develop this into a longer article on CTDATA soon, but I haven't done it yet. Machine configuration:

  • 256 M RAM
  • 3 G HD, auto partition
  • Red Hat 7.2, set up as a server, with LILO
  • Classic X Windows System, X Windows System, and GNOME package groups
  • Interchange 4.8.6 installed from tarball
  • mySQL 3.23 installed from mySQL (not Red Hat) RPMs
  • DBI 1.18 and DBD-MySQL 1.2216 installed from Red Hat RPMs
  • Apache 1.3.27 from Red Hat RPMs

  Obviously, the way I installed Apache may not be compatible with Slash. But, at the moment, the requirements for this machine do not include Slash or Slash-like functionality. I doubt that my Interchange configuration would have broken if I had installed Apache from its sources.

  There was a good deal of trial and error associated with getting this software running to the point where the demo catalog (aka foundation) worked. A lot of the problems were related to plain old UNIX file permissions. Some were related to order of operations.

  I had to do two complete installation attempts before Interchange worked at all. My normal approach to all OpenSource system installation is to build a machine virtually on my laptop using VMware. This worked fine in this case. After I got the second virtual machine to a fully functional state, I repeated the process on a server where a production web site can live.

  As with everything else you read that is this abstract, YMMV.

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  Dave Aiello
  Chatham Township Data Corporation [ctdata.com]