Offline cart? Is it possible?

[markyis_cool]

Hi,

I have great faith in the Neowin community so figured I'd come here first.

I have a request from a friend who is at university doing some course of some sort.

What the course requires from him is someone to set him up a website with a shopping cart.

Now, the main criteria is a shopping cart but because it has to be handed in on a CD I have no clue how to create an OFFLINE shopping cart.

There is no need for Zen Cart capabilities, just a simple add to cart, remove from cart, checkout. Kind of like roman cart for example, extra simple.

Anyone have any clue of how to do this? I figured some sort of flat file txt system in html but I seriously have no clue about offline processing.

Thanks in advance for any comments.

[AoM_Scott]

Erm.. use a testing server environment like XAMPP? Maybe not the best sort of ideas but you could do it.

Or if you know any javascript, you might be able to do it that way.

[markyis_cool]

  AoM_Scott said:

Erm.. use a testing server environment like XAMPP? Maybe not the best sort of ideas but you could do it.

Or if you know any javascript, you might be able to do it that way.

Nah, don't know any Javascripting. And test server is out of the question. It is a project to be handed in on a CD so needs to be able to run itself. Come to think of it, you can't run something on a CD can you as it's read only. Hmm, maybe I could have a demo site on CD then an actual working demo online.

Thanks for the help ;)

[TurboTuna]

In order to actually make a cart you need atleast some serverside input, hence unless you can run some testing enviroment server its not going to happen

[XerXis]

what does it matter if the website is on a cd or online? just use server side scripting (php, asp.net, jsp, ...) with sessions to store the cart, if you want to store it more permanent use cookies.

[markyis_cool]

Yeah, was just a quick message to ask if it is at least possible. I know I could make it on a local server or some sort of internal system but if it's on a cd there is no possible way to do it on windows as far as I know.

The only thing I could think was PHP or ASP. I can make a simple PHP Cart system but it would obviously need php installed on a server. Cheers.

[stickboy]

Yep it's possible. I created a "Shop on CD" for a giftware company I was working for.. We burned them onto those little business card cdrs. It used frames and javascript with a cookie... I had a cgi script hosted on our webserver so when they would "Check Out" from the cd, they could either print and fax the order, call in the order, or get online and submit the order... it would read the shopping cart cookie and submit to the cgi script. I based it on this shopping cart: http://www.mysimpleshop.com/ which was free at the time but now they are charging for the cgi script.

I used the same javascript cart for a site I just built for another company that just wanted a cheap web presence so they use Earthlink personal webhosting with no php/asp/etc. http://www.oldmountainllc.com

Edit: Another free javascript cart is nop cart.. http://www.nopdesign.com/freecart/index.html

Edited April 19, 2006 by stickboy

[markyis_cool]

thanks mate, ill have a look at it....

EDIT : Using the http://www.nopdesign.com/freecart/index.html cart and it is working unbelivably well. It's great for doing something small like this. Like a demo shop on a CD. It has solved my problem. Cheers Stickboy ;)

Edited April 23, 2006 by markyis_cool

[PRSBOY]

  markyis_cool said:

thanks mate, ill have a look at it....

EDIT : Using the http://www.nopdesign.com/freecart/index.html cart and it is working unbelivably well. It's great for doing something small like this. Like a demo shop on a CD. It has solved my problem. Cheers Stickboy ;)

hope you dont intend on changing the design and letting for friend hand in the cd :p