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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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ZipMasterFlex

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Purpose:
This web-based application was designed as file distribution system that can create a single compressed file containing all the individual files selected by a user.

Features

Dynamically create Zip files on the fly (May Require Zip Module)
Administration login to maintain file list
No FTP needed to add/remove files
Diplay Date File was Added
Records Number of File Requests
Ability to limit file types

Requirements

Linux
Server Side Zip Module (if not already installed), such as Info-Zip
MySQL
PHP with Safe Mode Off

Installation

Create a MySQL database with whatever name you like. Dump ZipMasterFlex.sql into newly-created MySQL database (phpMyAdmin is excellent for this).
Open config.php and change noted variables. Note, mime.html is available for limiting file type uploads.
Upload contents of ZipMasterFlex to your web server with the following DIRECTORY permissions:
- ZipMasterFlex: 777
- docs: 777
Navigate to the ZipMasterFlex directory on your webserver (e.g., http://yoursite/ZipMasterFlex/) and go to admin.php. Enter the password defined in config.php.
Add documents.
That's it!

Troubleshooting
If you run into PHP warning messages, particularly Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by..., the Zip module may not be installed on your server. Check with your system admin. Also note, safe mode must be disabled!

License
ZipMasterFlex
Version 1.0
Released June 27, 2003
© Lethal Penguin 2003 by Norman Kline

ZipMasterFlex 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 regarding the GNU General Public License.

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Updated: March 25, 2009 21:03