Path: usenet.cise.ufl.edu!huron.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!decius.ultra.net!bigboote.WPI.EDU!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!news.he.net!nntp.iccom.com!quark.scn.rain.com!news.teleport.com!not-for-mail From: mheins@prairienet.org (Mike Heins) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules Subject: ANNOUNCE: MiniVend V3.02 -- Shopping cart with DBI support Followup-To: comp.lang.perl.modules Date: 7 Sep 1997 15:21:07 GMT Organization: Prairienet Lines: 99 Sender: news-merlyn@gadget.cscaper.com Approved: merlyn@stonehenge.com (comp.lang.perl.announce) Message-ID: <5uugp3$nrg$1@nadine.teleport.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gadget.cscaper.com Keywords: shopping cart perl script software trolley basket catalog cybercash SQL X-Disclaimer: The "Approved" header verifies header information for article transmission and does not imply approval of content. Xref: usenet.cise.ufl.edu comp.lang.perl.announce:23 comp.lang.perl.modules:733 ANNOUNCE: MiniVend V3.02 -- Shopping cart with SQL support MiniVend, based on Vend, Andrew Wilcox's fine shopping cart program, has come out with a new release, Version 3.02. It is available at all Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) sites in the directory CPAN/authors/id/MIKEH. See info at: http://www.minivend.com/minivend/ ------------------------------------------------------------- MiniVend V3.02 Copyright 1996,1997 by Michael J. Heins Largely based on Vend 0.2 Copyright 1995 by Andrew M. Wilcox Portions from Vend 0.3 Copyright 1995,1996 by Andrew M. Wilcox This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ------------------------------------------------------------- W H A T ' S N E W - SQL support for ODBC, and almost any database supported by Perl's powerful DBI/DBD interface. This includes Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, mSQL, Solid, Ingres, Informix, PostgreSQL, and several others. - Integrated CyberCash support. - Seamless PGP integration for emailed orders. - Improved installation. - Powerful static page building capability. A B O U T M I N I V E N D MiniVend is a powerful electronic catalog system (commonly known as a shopping cart) with fast and easy online ordering. It provides built-in or SQL database support, SSL security, a search engine, and integrated real-time transaction support. It rivals even the costliest commercial systems. MiniVend 3.0 Features * Users maintain a "shopping cart" for ordered items * Multiple independent or shared catalogs allow one server to run many storefronts or a "mall" * SSL support means secure and practical credit card ordering * Complete SQL database support, inluding ODBC, via the powerful Perl DBI/DBD interface * Powerful search capability * PGP support for secure off-site mailing of orders * Built in support for CyberCash * Static page building for the best performance * Multi-server mode for very high capacity on systems with sufficient memory * Intelligent cookie support -- browsers that don't accept cookies will still work fine * Built-in addressable database support with virtually unlimited rows and columns and field sizes-- no SQL is required to run Minivend * Many, many, other features ------------------------------------------------------------------- A V A I L A B I L I T Y A N D C O M P A T I B I L I T Y MiniVend has been well-tested on Solaris 2, SunOS, Linux, OSF/Alpha, HP/UX, BSDI, and FreeBSD. It should work on almost any UNIX with a RELEASE version of Perl 5.002 or higher that passes the Perl 'make test' 100%. MiniVend is for UNIX at this point. See the web site for pointers to an alpha Windows 95/NT version. BSDI 3.0 has problems with UNIX-domain sockets and MiniVend. You must use INET mode. Please let the author know if you have successfully run MiniVend on any additional platforms -- patches would be appreciated. The author is very interested in learning your problems with MiniVend, and is always interested in improving the documentation. (He isn't much interested in BEING your documentation, though, unless you pay well and promptly.) Please send comments, well-researched questions, kudos, and complaints to: mikeh@minivend.com .