So my friend is an entrepreneur and has an idea for a business involving a merchant web-site. With his limited knowledge of computing (could just about master tags like <b></b>) he has asked me to help him put together something. I have some experience with SQL and PHP, but I've never dealt with eCommerce before.
I had a look at PayPal, but it seems that every time you want to create a new "Buy now" button you have to go onto PayPal's site and enter in all the data. I was hoping I could generate them using PHP and SQL; grabbing the current price from a database rather than having to go to PayPal's site and do it all manually. With approximately 200 different items for sale, the manual route isn't going to be a lot of fun!
Also, I could program my own (crude) shopping cart, but I'd have no idea (again) how to interact with payment schemes. Any advice on this part as well would be appreciated!
I had a look at PayPal, but it seems that every time you want to create a new "Buy now" button you have to go onto PayPal's site and enter in all the data. I was hoping I could generate them using PHP and SQL; grabbing the current price from a database rather than having to go to PayPal's site and do it all manually. With approximately 200 different items for sale, the manual route isn't going to be a lot of fun!
Also, I could program my own (crude) shopping cart, but I'd have no idea (again) how to interact with payment schemes. Any advice on this part as well would be appreciated!