VbzCart

Technology: VbzCart

Having evaluated osCommerce and found that, although it had many features I would like to have on vbz.net, it also lacked some crucial features currently needed (many of which are provided by the existing shopping cart system, and some of which would be needed in order to effectively manage porting the data from the existing system).

So I'm writing a new system, in PHP Perl, based on the data design of the existing VBZ cart system and adding new pieces as needed.

I will be taking notes on this page and gradually refining them into something resembling documentation, with the ultimate goal of producing a system which could be released under an open source license.

Documents

• VbzCart uses HyperAdmin for administration of privileged users
• VbzCart Tables: all tables used by VbzCart
• Data Concepts:
  • Carts
  • Orders
  • Sessions
• General Concepts:
  • VbzCart Ordering: how ordering works (carts, orders, etc.)
• Other notes:
  • VbzCart Tables in Access: the data schema as currently implemented (2006)
  • VbzCart catalog building: how the catalog is built from stock and supplier catalogs
  • VbzCart wikified topics: using MediaWiki to manage store topics