Originally posted by ilikebeer
Forgive me if I oversimplify ...
Create a DB (SQL, Access, MySQL) and as long as you have your product list in a Excel spreadsheet or tab/comma delimited file, you can populate your DB really easily. For images, you could either add a field in your DB that references the image name (ie imagename.gif) OR you can name your images according to a unique identifier for the record (ie Product SKU, identity seed from DB).
As far as an actual 'cart' application ... www.asp101.com (ASP/Vbscript) has a really easy to configure one in their 'samples' section.
If I didn't make sense (most likely) .. shoot me a PM
Ilikebeer,
The cd of images and text files comes with an "example" of how to import into MS access..
From my limited knowldege of databases I was under the impression that Access would be the slowest "retriver" of the 3...and probably not suitable for 70,000 images?
Whats your opinion of that ?
I have a reseller hosting account and in Cpanel cant I just create a MySQL databse..would that be easier?
I am also using 2checkout.com for processing?
I'm going to confuse you here because I am a bit confused
Isnt this shopping cart all I need ..
http://www.2checkout.com/demobuy.htm
isnt a shopping cart just a database correct ?
or do I need a seperate database for the cart to retrieve the images and text?
Cant I take my image and text cd and export it all to a shopping cart..I would still have to go back and add prices and taxes..but isnt that all I need to do ?
Thanks..