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Thank you for the answer!

"I need a shopping cart that can be placed in my bin directory and called from HTML forms."



What is the name of this executable, what language is it written in, and where can I learn the...

Which cart?


No, I would write all the HTML from scratch and use keywords specified by the cart executable to carry out actions. Twenty-five years ago such packages were common.

No they don't, and they never did.

I need a shopping cart that can be placed in my bin directory and called from HTML forms. I'd prefer it rely on MySQL services for synchronization since maintaining a 24/7 process on my host site is...

Thanks Melanie!

... for advertising your services instead of answering my question? No thanks.

As you're probably aware, checks aren't enough. You need SQL or some other gateway to negotiate access to the inventory data.

20 years ago I wrote an entire store from scratch in Perl + SQL. I just don't have time to do it again and maintain it in PHP.

Decrement needs to fail if inventory is zero, and return a failure code as well.

Ok, thank you for the candid reply. It's a "feature" of many carts! As you seem to be aware, the "purchase" operation 1st needs to attempt to decrement the non-negative SQL inventory counter for each...

Thank you, that's exactly what I need.

I'm considering ZC for my next store implementation. So far, so good!

Is there a built-in or a plug-in that adds "put me on the waiting list" functionality to out of stock items?

About the "out of the box" shopping cart:
Suppose 3+ customers have the last of the same item in their cart and they all press "purchase" in < 1s of each other. Could I end up with multiple...

I'm considering ZC for my next store implementation. I have some dated experience with AdWords.

Where in the Zen Cart documentation can I read about integrating with present-day pay-per-click...

@swguy
It's either supported or it's not, and I'm happy with either answer.

Thank you for the quick reply, and also the phrase "Early bird gets the worm".

I'm considering ZC for my next store implementation. Here's a question I didn't see answered in the Features FAQ:

Can Zen Cart shopping cart "reserve" store items for fixed amount of time?

This...