Hello Guys and Gals,

I've got a customer with a very limited number of products who needs
an eCommerce Shopping Cart Solution.

Since the inventory is very limited, and it doesn't change very
often, creating a shopping cart using static pages would be a better
solution than a template-designed, database-driven shopping cart. I
can control the pages on a static site more easily than by using
templates, and static URLs provide better search engine response than
a PHP leveraged, dynamic shopping cart. (If nothing else, I want to
use Menu Machine, which has to be the *last* piece of code on the
page -- that's difficult to arrange on a dynamic, template driven
site).

I was going to use CatalogIntegrator, but evidentially Doug Alberts
has given up the ship on CI. But CatalogIntegrator would have been
the perfect solution. With CI, you add an HTML form element to the
catalog page that calls a PHP page, and then the PHP page connects
with the MySQL database to process the order. Using that solution, I
could retain complete control of the page design and directory
structure. Dynamic shopping carts remind me of a menu at a Chinese
restaurant: "Choose one item from column A, two from column B, ...".
That's nice, but it creates a very "impersonal" web site design.

I've checked out: Zen-Cart, X-cart, Magento, Static-Cart, ProductCart, etc.

Everything out there seems to be dynamically created PHP or ASP
pages. I can't find a shopping cart that lets me control the page
design without templates, and that doesn't try to be "all things to
all people". In other words, I don't want the shopping cart to *be*
the web site; I want the shopping cart to be simply a part of the web
site, not the whole "ball of wax".

Your suggestions would be very welcome.

--
Warmest regards,
the Wizard


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