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I developed an idea last night concerning my first ecommerce venture. I would like to make a PHP Nuke site with ecommerce functionality. I have not played with any of the shopping carts, but the paypal carts out there require one to have a US paypal account and accept US dollars as payment. I live in Europe and would want to use EURO or swiss francs as the currency. Does anyone use a shopping cart that works well with Euros and also accepts credit cards?
Secondly, does Nuke make a decent portal for an online store. How does one display inventory, what modules are used for the inventory, how does the system know when something is sold to mark it SOLD - if for example selling something like Art where you might have only 1 of an orignal to sell.
Also are there any modules which will give reports to say how many items have been sold and produce a mailing address list, etc....
Sorry if many of these inquiries are basic. I have only just developed the idea last night while trying to sleep and wanted to post the questions first thing in the morning. Still trying to see how an online store would work using only Nuke and not a bunch of custom developed stuff.
Thank you
Using PHP Nuke as an online store seems like taking a detour. There are some Open Source alternatives aimed at ECommerce only, such as OSCommerce which is a very competent ECommerce system.
I would recommed OSCommerce if you are into setting up an online store. It uses PHP and SQL so it wouldn't be much different from what PHP Nuke is built on I guess.
Good luck!
Daniel
I would go for an open-source dedicated commerce shop software package like the one mentioned above. That would give you all the CMS shop functionality you would need.
If you also want to create an informational (or community) resource, I would recommend you do the two on different domains, with the informational/community site geared towards driving the traffic to the shop.
TJ
OScommerse+phpb is free and allow you to build almost anything.
