MiniVend
MiniVend is a full-featured electronic catalog system
(commonly known as a shopping cart) with online ordering capability and
support for SSL security. It is designed to provide an interface
complete with automated entry of orders into your database.
MiniVend is freely-redistributable under the GNU General Public License
-- you can
download it via FTP.
- Users maintain a "shopping cart" for ordered items
- Catalogs can be of almost unlimited size with excellent performance
- Full support for SSL, with DES encryption of credit card
numbers on disk
- Pageable searching, with support for Glimpse or standard text search
- Full database capability, unlimited and configurable fields
- Catalog pages can be built on the fly from the database or
pre-made, with automatic selection
- Supports GDBM, DB_File, and NDBM databases
- Full frames support
- Works well with all browsers
- Back end order entry capability
- Full client-side imagemap support, including frame targets
- Automatic installation and configuration
- Remote administration via the web
- The vendpage utility maintains parallel HTML and
Vend page trees
- Runs under Perl 5 and almost any UNIX
- Designed to be secure, runs with taint checking enabled
- User-customizable colors and backgrounds
- Built-in online help capability
- Central control of buttonbars
- Sales tax calculation (zip code and state)
- Shipping calculation (quantity and/or weight)
- Blank field checking
- Configurable order reports
- Much more
Andrew Wilcox wrote Vend,
the copylefted shopping cart software. MiniVend is based
on Vend V0.2, but enhanced considerably, adding
support for SSL security, frames, powerful search capability,
remote administration, superfast server
mode, client-side imagemaps, user-customizable help and displays, and more.
This version of Vend includes an automatic configuration and installation
utility, and continues to be free under the GNU copyleft.
Frames, the new windowing technology
Netscape has proposed for HTML 3.0, significantly enhances the
electronic catalog experience, letting the user maintain a
context as they navigate through the catalog.