Congratulations
You've installed Commerce.cgi 3.01!


Please choose a sample category below

E-Commerce | Web Design | PERL/CGI | Affiliate Programs

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING ON THIS PAGE!
About this page:

The page you are currently viewing is called frontpage.html and resides in the /cgi-bin/store/html directory. You should ONLY be viewing this page by accessing the complete URL to commerce.cgi (something like http://www.your_domain.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi), NOT by linking directly to frontpage.html!!! By default, commerce.cgi loads frontpage.html as the homepage - the page needs to be parsed out through the script.

Open up frontpage.html in a text editor and view the source code (Don't just view the source code through the web browser or what I'm saying won't make sense). Notice the code for the category links above. For example, commerce.cgi?product=java&cart_id=%%cart_id%% displays all of the products from the database that are in the java category. The cart id=%%cart_id%% tells the script to add in the numeric cart id when the page is parsed through the script. In other words, the cart id IS NOT hardcoded into the source code of the page, but is added dynamically to the page when it is displayed. This makes the script more accessible to users that do not accept cookies.

Please note: this page (frontpage.html) is just a static html page that is processed through the script. When you create new categories of products, you'll need to manually add links to those categories on this page. Category links do not get added to this page automatically (I get asked that question *a lot*).

 
Store Manager:

Store Manager can be accessed here. This is were you can change your store settings, or edit/add/delete products in your database.

Bookmark your Store Manager link, and make sure to remove the link displayed above when you re-design this page.

 
Support:

Commerce.cgi is open source freeware and is distributed without free support. Be sure to study the Installation Instructions closely. Internet Express Products also maintains a Mailing List and Support Forum and we suggest you visit these resources.

We also have a members area where for a small fee you can have access to a large number of custom modifications that we have written for this script. Before you spend too much time and effort making any modifications to the script you may want to check out the ones that we have already done. You will probably find that it is well worth the small price for the amount of time and effort it will save you.

Thank you,
Larry Wagar
Internet Express Products
http://expressproducts.net