I just downloaded and installed the CubeCart script on one of my sites. So far I’m extremely impressed, this is the easiest install of a complex php script I have ever experienced. Of course, I haven’t “skinned” it yet, and I’m sure that’s where I’ll run into all my problems. Basically you just create the database and user and add user to dbase, then unzip/upload all the files. You go to the install url and it walks you through the five step process, which is well thought out and very easy to follow. It took me all of around 5 minutes and was totally painless.

The reason I chose to try this shopping cart is because it’s the ONLY one I could find that didn’t cost a firstborn child (free if you leave their little link in at the bottom) AND is totally driven by xhtml/css layouts with NO wonky tables, which means I might actually have a chance of customizing it fairly easily. I put their test cart through the ringer, and checked source code on a bunch of pages, and — look ma, no tables! WOOHOO!

I’ve been looking for a compliant shopping cart script for awhile, and though there are others that promise full compliance “soon” I admit I got tired of waiting. I’ve got a show coming up at the end of the summer and want to launch the site then, when I can hand out flyers to 60,000 crazy people who all love vintage (my part time “fun” business.) That’s only five weeks away! If I don’t get cracking on it I won’t have the cart done and some products in it in time for Labor Day Weekend. So wish me luck getting CubeCart up and running! I’ve actually got high hopes for this one, it seems to have everything I need and then some.

I’ll keep you posted on how it goes.

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