looking for freeware programs for ecommerce

recommendations?

[han solo]

I know some of the open source places to get good stuff, but I was wonding if any one in the group had any leads on good, free ecommerce software for a database driven retail web site?

I'm putting together a long put off personal project, and decided yesterday development time would be sped up dramatically if I had something database driven, instead of creating static pages.

What it needs to do:

web based user interface, integrate with mysql database or text db, perl driven architecture, and some kind of shopping cart feature. Also create pages from DB based on predefined templates which I have. That way, if I remove product from the db, there won't be any more pages about it... I'll need more funcionality later, but by then I might be able to at least write some of the code myself.

Names of software or links would be appreciated, stickymail if you don't want to post it. I'm not looking to pay money for this, so no commercial apps please.

Han Solo

[oilman]

Take a peek at:
[hotscripts.com...]

there might be some stuff there that you could cobble into a working system

[han solo]

I'm too lazy to look around at the free sites, and then somebody posts, "look here, fool" (not what you said, but the way I feel ;) )

Guess I should have just gone there in the first place, but I was wondering if anybody had some experience with a script from there, before I started poking around, especially since I'm just now finally learning perl...

Sometimes, there are no shortcuts, eh?

Cheers,

Han Solo

[han solo]

looked through the hotscripts site, and let me tell you, way, way too much to choose from :)

Perhaps I should be more specific, because I only need a few capabilities:

I'm putting together more or less a web based catalogue, since the ecomm functions of buying are done off site at a secure server.

the web pages for each product will be template driven, and the data for each element of the template will be stored in a DB, either a proprietary perl one, or mysql.

so i'm looking for something with a web based interface to add/delete/modify the stuff within the db, and then generate pages out of it.

Sounds more or less simple, right???

I'd appreciate any specific suggestions, till I get one, I'm going to keep looking, and looking. I've already downloaded 4 open source development kits of one kind or another. They are great for stimulating ideas for other projects, but I have to keep my eye on this ball for now. :)

Cheers,

Han Solo

[physics]

It looks like [cgihk.com ] seems to be part of what you are looking for. Here is an excerpt from the page about the script:
"What's DLTempex? DLTempex means Download Templates.
It generates a page for each file in a database based on a HTML template. You can therefore modify the layout of the output and insert the file's title, description, file size (available if the file is stored locally), link(s) to the file, server(s) of the link(s) and extra information easily." I haven't tried this yet, but I plan to. Let me know if you find any other programs that are useful for this sort of task.

[physics]

OK, OK ... maybe that suggestion was not so great. But this one looks much better at first glance: "Akopia Interchange is the world's leading open source e-commerce software platform" [akopia.com] Apparently it was bought by Red Hat in January. I looked at the demo and it's pretty but I'm not sure how SEO friendly the whole deal is (looks like .html pages are used though, which is a start) Anyone here used this? Might give it a whirl some day.