Store Front Question

bze306

I know how to create a Store Front using php and mysql. I know how to create a members area for my members to login into. How would I go about having my members create their own store front on the fly. Then add items to the store front and sell them. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

sneakyimp

http://oscommerce.com

bze306

I tried using oscommerce but I am struggling with having the users create their own store without going through the whole installation of oscommerce. Is there an autoinstallation script I can use? Do I just point them to the oscommerce installation script and if so how do I seperate one users install from anothers. Forgive me but pretty new to php / mysql.

sneakyimp

I don't know of any auto-installer for oscommerce. if you wanted to come up with one, this would be the place to get help writing it.

I know that it involves creating a datbase and granting permissions to a particular user and copying some files.

It's a lot of work to configure oscommerce because
a) oscommerce is complicated - it supports multiple currencies, for instance.
b) commerce is an inherently complicated problem.

given point b, you are probably asking for something that has not been done yet. in order to set someone up, you have to find out all kinds of things....a small sampling:

1) their login name
2) their preferred password
3) their email
4) their bank account / paypal account / merchant account type and various other information
5) how that account is supposed to be accessed...and paypal has 3 or 4 different methods depending on how much you pay them and how fancy your server is. Authorize.net has AIM and SIM. This stuff is REALLY complicated.
6) Do they want to charge tax? How much? on what objects? osCommerce supports a way to specify this but if you want to college the default information, that's one more piece of data.
7) etc.
8) etc.
9) etc.