> It's basically a little open source > web storefront [yes, including shopping carts] all written in Perl and > designed to run with Linux & MySQL or PostgreSQL or whatever.
There's nothing *little* about Interchange. I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to make an amazon.com. I wrote a shopping cart in Perl, finished today actually. Sometimes it's good just to roll your own: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Who%20needs%20shopping%20carts%3F Justin Simoni -- + Freelance Web Design + Internet Application Development + Way Out There Artist [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://justinsimoni.com | 720.436.7701 > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Emmanuel. M. Decarie wrote: > >> I'm looking for a recommendation for a good open source shopping cart in >> Perl. My boss told me about phpShop <http://phpshop.org/>, which look >> good, but I rather use Perl, preferably something implemented in >> HTML::Mason. > > Have you looked at RedHat Interchange? It's basically a little open source > web storefront [yes, including shopping carts] all written in Perl and > designed to run with Linux & MySQL or PostgreSQL or whatever. I forget if > it uses Mason for templating, but there's definitely a templating > mechanism available, as well as modes for web based management [by web > designers, sales staff, managers, etc] and back end management [via Perl > or the command line or whatever]. Pretty complete system, and all Free. > > Only catch is that, when I tried to get it going on OSX back in the > spring, I couldn't figure out how to get it started, and when I tried to > find help on the mailing lists the only responses I got were along the > lines of "OSX has hopeless bugs, try putting YellowDog on your Mac". No > thanks. > > Still, I saw it running on Linux and it seemed pretty happy there. Check > it out: < http://interchange.redhat.com/ > (if I remember correctly) > >
