Why do you not recommend using flash for e-commerce?
I'm finishing up a site based off of the book "Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL
E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional" and I'm am building a flash front
end for it. Why would I want to stick to html when I could have a flash
front end??
Kevin
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash e-commerce site
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:54:29 -0700
Off the top of my head, I'd say you would want to use it for an e-comm
site because it is rather well suited for that, imho. The persistent
state is perfect for this sort of thing, and allows for the entire
checkout process to happen without browser refresh. As far as security
goes, put it on an https server - done. With few exceptions, the flash
player uses the browser for all of its communication with the server, so
you can rest assured that all the data being posted is encrypted - it's
the same solution as for security concerns with regular old html pages.
Ok, some of the socket connections (XMLsocket, for example, I think) do
not use the browser, but for the most part, using SSL is safe.
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Potter
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 9:45 AM
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Flash e-commerce site
Not sure why you would want to use flash for an e-comm site, and this is
coming from a person that tries to use flash all the time even when it
isn't necessarily appropriate.
That being said, we used oscommerce and had a store up and running in
less than a week. I was pretty impressed with it. If you absolutely
need to use flash I would suggest using a hybrid approach of keeping
track of the items in flash and passing the items to the php cart at
checkout. I don't know how easy it is to make flash secure, and that
would be my biggest worry.
I haven't used it but here is a flash e-comm engine.
http://www.flashcart.com/
Good Luck,
Ryan
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