Best Cart

how many people using dreamhost have a functional cart hosted on their site? what is the best one to use (i.e. most compatible/easiest to set up) with a dreamhost account? lemme know! thanks

-vahalla

I have an installation of Zen Cart running. It was very easy to set up indeed.


-- si-blog --

are you taking credit cards with it?
was that had to set up at all?
can we see the URL please?
I need to install zen cart soon for someone and trying to learn more...
any tips on the installation???

I personally prefer Cubecart to Zen cart. Version 3 is free and fully functional, but with a copyright notice. It does costs to remove the notice.

Of course there is also os-commerce, which I personally find very difficult and untidy, so I cannot recommend it.


I would just try both cube & zen cart and see which one you prefer.

In reply to:

---

are you taking credit cards with it?

---

Nope.

In reply to:

---

can we see the URL please?
I need to install zen cart soon for someone and trying to learn more...
any tips on the installation?

---

The installation was for development purposes, so it isn't actually in use as a cart. I documented my installation process (although using generic information) in my DreamHost Wiki user namespace.


-- si-blog --

If you used zen-cart did you have to write an .htaccess file to alter the php settings or did you install your own instance of php within your domain? i've been experimenting with an .htaccess file and failing but i'm curious what everyone else had done.

I have not done any further work beyond the initial installation, so I'm still working with the ugly default URLs, etc.


-- si-blog --

I'm currently using VirtueMart, an amazing Joomla! shopping component.

Another hosting I recommend.