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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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PassMasterFlex

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Purpose:
This is a simple single-user login that utilizes cookies for authentication. PassMasterFlex was written to provide an alternative to the Apache login, since the only successful way to "log out" with Apache is to close the browser window.

Features

Cookies Based
When user logs out, cookie is removed from user PC
Utilizes md5 encryption for password
Logout window

Requirements

Platform independent (However, only tested on Linux, AIX, and Win XP)
Cookied enabled-borwser
PHP - (register_globals: on)

Installation

Open config.php and change noted variables.
Open index.php, look for  and the  tags, add your HTML between these. Do not make copies of this file for additional pages, it contains the main login; copy page2.php instead.
Open page2.php, repeat process mentioned in Step 2. Make as many copies of this page, just rename (duh), link, and keep code above and below  intact.
Upload contents of PassMasterFlex to your web server.
That's it!

License
PassMasterFlex
Version 1.1
Released July 15, 2003
Updated December 3, 2003
© Lethal Penguin 2003

PassMasterFlex 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.

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