closedShop - Open Source Shopping Files

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#   closedShop - Open Source Shopping
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#     Homepage:
#        http://closedshop.sourceforge.net/
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#     Developers:
#        Chris Fleizach - chris@fightliteracy.com
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closedShop is a collection of Perl Scripts which
work to make a complete shopping cart. Currently,
it only will utilize mySQL, and has not been tested
under NT. 

Installation:

	1. Create a folder in your cgi-bin, preferably called
	closedShop, and chmod it 755. Unpack the contents of the
	latest closedShop release, and chmod each file
	with 755 (executable). (including closedShop.pm and sql.sql
	just for the hell of it).
	
	2. Go to your web browser, and type in the url to the 
	closedShop folder and go to the Install.pl file,
	thus http://www.YOURURL.com/cgi-bin/closedShop/Install.pl
	
	3. If you have already installed closedShop, you will
	be redirected to the Admin.pl file. If you have not
	installed closedShop as of yet, you will have to fill in
	a few variables to get started.
	
	Variables:
	  Company Name:         All self explanatory. The state variable 
	  Company Email:          will be used for tax purposes as well.
	  Company Phone:
	   ... Address
	   ... City          
	   ... State
	   ... Zip
	
		Tax Rate - Enter the tax rate your state is charging. If you
		are not considered with taxing, leave it blank. If you want
		to enter a tax rate of 7.9%, please enter as 0.079 otherwise
		your customers won't be happy when tax costs 7.9 times more
		than the actual product.
	
	   Select the credit cards you accept.
	   
	   Categories: Create the names of the categories
	     you sell products in.
		 
	   Admin Username and password: to access the admin section
	   and process orders and add items, etc, etc, the user/pass
	   combo you enter here will be used. Make sure to remember the
	   password. If you forget it you will need to go and find it from
	   your mySQL database
	   
	   SQL Info
	     Database name: whatever the name of the database you use
		 Username and Password:  Enter them, unless you don't have any
		 then just leave it blank
		 Tables: Enter whatever names you want, they don't really matter
	
	   Website URL  -  your url
	   URL To closedShop folder - url to closedShop folder
	   Server path to image folder - this is used to write out images uploaded
	     - make sure it is correct
	    URL To image folder - should correspond with the server path to image
		  folder. This is where your images will appear.
		PATH TO header file  -  You should create a header file which will
		border all the data from closedShop. In this header file make sure
		all the links to images and links to other sites are absolute, ie. 
		start with http://....  
		PATH to footer - the bottom of your template. same idea as above
		
		Table top colors - all closedShop is in tables. the top of each
		table is this color. 
		Table main colors - the rest of the table is in this color. the
		values you see entered there are what you are looking at now.
		Font - change the font if you want. 
		
		Filenames - If you have no secure server support, you can leave this
		as they are. If you want certain files to be secure, as they well 
		should be, you should enter the full https://... url to that file.
		Specifically, Admin.pl and Cart.pl should be secure at least. User.pl
		doesn't show anything very important, and neither does Item.pl,
		but the other two are used for processing and displaying credit cards,
		so they should be in secure mode.  
	
	4. Go to your Admininstration. Go to the Admin.pl and enter your username
	and password. Here you should see your list of options. This is where you add,
	edit and remove items, all very straightforward hopefully, and where you process 
	orders. You can view old processed orders and process new ones. When you have clicked
	on 'process' the customer will be emailed with information that the product has been shipped.
	You can also view customers who have signed up and change the variables you set in the
	Install part of installation.
	
	5. That seems to be all I have to say about it. Add some links to your website for searching
	which appears in Item.pl. All you have to do is just link to Item.pl and the default screen
	is the search screen. Customers accounts, where they can view their info, wishlists and 
	order status is all in User.pl. If you want to test an order, a test credit card number
	to use is 1111111111111111. Otherwise, you need a valid card to move beyond. 
	
	6. Questions, bugs, comments, blatant and disrepectful security holes
	should be sent to chris@fightliteracy.com or visit the homepage
	at http://closedshop.sourceforge.net/
	

Notes:
	You might have to play around with some things to get the secure scripts set up,
	especially if your web hoster sets your secure server to another server. Right now
	there is now online credit card processing action. closedShop will only store credit
	cards in the database and display them for the admin. 
	
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