Open cart is an online open source shopping cart that allows you to create a quick and easy online store to sell your goods and or services online in no time at all. This open source system is one of many that provide an intuitive interface that allows you to get your online shop up and running faster than ever before. The software is completely open source released under the GPL and is one hundred percent free to use.
If you have been looking for an open source application that will help yu start an online store with ease and safety then you have found the right site. Open Cart is like have a premium piece of software for absolutely free! This is a great piece of software that is released under the GPL and development in the UK. When I first used it, I fell in love with it completely and have never looked back at any other system.
Open Cart is a great piece of open source software that allows you to easily and very quickly put together an online store that will undoubtedly make a lasting impression on your customers. Open Cart is still young, however, it promises to be one of the very best open source shopping cart systems that are available.
Open source shopping has never been easier. Open Cart provides an amazing interface along with some of the very best technology and PHP coding that I have ever seen. The shopping cart features, add on modules and user interface is intelligent, simple and works like a charm for people of all user levels even from the back end.
I have been evaluating the open source system named Open Cart for some time now. I have noticed that the functionailty of this system is simple and just plain awesome. I feel that there are very little truly open source, GPL, online shopping cart projects that can give this much back to people I am very happy that I have come across Open Cart.
It might a bit obvious that we named this post PHP Database Driven Open Source Shopping Cart Software. Many people are searching for appropriate software to use in their projects and create dynamic database driven open source shopping carts either for their own business use or for clients that will make use of the software for various reasons.
When I found Open Cart, I was completely taken aback. The back-end is neat and tidy, it is so simple to use that someone actually said that it looks too ‘bear’. The truth is that Open Cart is extremely flexible. It’s built in capabilities far surpass anything that I would have expected to be completely open source and released under the GPL.
I’ve been developing an online store for a client and used Open Cart as the base. I needed to develope the store first before anything could go live so I created a directory and installed the entire system in there. I then realised that I would need to move the installation since I did a tremenduos amount of work already and customized the store extensively and I wasn’t going to go about re-creating all of that. To cut a long story short… if you are moving an installation within the same server, whether it is on the same domain or not all (using the same database) you have to do is this:
1> Find your config.php in your root folder (where you have your installation e.g.: http://www.yourdomain.com/folder).
2> Open in a text editor and change the following:
// HTTP
define(’HTTP_SERVER’, ‘http://www.yourdomain.com/admin/’);
define(’HTTP_CATALOG’, ‘http://www.yourdomain.com/’);
define(’HTTP_IMAGE’, ‘http://www.yourdomain.com/image/’);
// HTTPS
define(’HTTPS_SERVER’, ”);
define(’HTTPS_IMAGE’, ”);
// DIR
define(’DIR_APPLICATION’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/admin/’);
define(’DIR_SYSTEM’, ‘/home/yours/public_htmlyourdomain.com/system/’);
define(’DIR_DATABASE’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/system/database/’);
define(’DIR_LANGUAGE’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/admin/language/’);
define(’DIR_TEMPLATE’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/admin/view/template/’);
define(’DIR_CONFIG’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/system/config/’);
define(’DIR_IMAGE’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/image/’);
define(’DIR_CACHE’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.com/cache/’);
define(’DIR_DOWNLOAD’, ‘/home/yours/public_html/yourdomain.comdownload/’);
—> to your new folder.
3> Do the same in http://www.yourdomain.com/admin/config.php
And that’s it! You’re done!
Open Cart is an easy to use e-commerce cart application for web sites that wish to sell anything online. We have used Open Cart for a very long time and have come to u nderstand the program very well. We offer various levels of commercial support and have made a community forum for ‘free’ support.
