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This Week's Article: Three Ways a CMS Helps in e-commerce

There are three direct ways that a content management system add-on can help you develop your e-commerce website. This article is going to list those three things and explain how they affect online transactions. Developing an e-commerce website can be a very tricky task. There are many different aspects to the process and each is equally necessary. The major components of an e-commerce process are the inventory catalog, the shopping cart, and the checkout procedure. Designing any of these components is usually time-consuming, and for someone with limited or nonexistent programming skills it can be next to impossible. This is where the content management system (CMS) comes in. Using a CMS makes website development much, much easier across the board. Installing an e-commerce add-on to your CMS essentially does all the programming work for you. Now instead of spending your time trying to figure out how to create the components you can spend it tweaking an existing system. This brings us to the three most important things that a CMS e-commerce add-on provides. Keep in mind these might not be included in all e-commerce add-ons. However, if one doesn't include these features, it's probably best to keep looking until you find one that does. Not only because they're necessary, but also because there are so many different add-ons to choose from that there's no reason why you should settle for one without these three features.

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FAQMasterFlex

User Demo | Admin Demo (admin/admin)

Download (Count: 21880 downloads)

Purpose:
This is a free, database-driven web-based application for creating and maintaining Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on your web site.

Features

Unlimited Categories
Unlimited Questions/Answers
Web-based Category and FAQ Administration with Add, Edit, Delete Capability

Updates

March 29, 2006: Instances of $PHP_SELF replaced with $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] so register globals will not need to be enabled.
February 8, 2006: Due to authenticaion variable changes in PHP 4.3, login procedure was broken; issue resolved.
February 8, 2006: Added multiple delete functionality for removing categories.
Aug 31, 2005: Improved error reporting for MySQL connection and queries

Requirements

Platform independent (However, only tested on Linux, AIX, and Win XP)
PHP
MySQL

Installation

Create a MySQL table, preferably faqmasterflex, then copy and paste SQL from faqmasterflex.sql info with your favorite GUI SQL tool (phpMyAdmin).
Open faq_config.php and change MySQL connection variables. Make certain these variable are correct! Most errors are a result of incorrect MySQL server name, MySQL user name, or MySQL password.
Upload contents of PassMasterFlexPlus to your web server.
Login using (if not changed in faq_config.php):

Username: admin
Password: admin
After setup, change the username/password! Otherwise, that's it!

FAQMasterFlex is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See http://www.gnu.org/ for more information regrading the GNU General Public License.

^*Based on August 25, 2005 Google Search results.

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Updated: September 18, 2009 08:42