The Trend on E-Commerce

The trend on the online-transaction has been progressed from its immaturity phases to the beginning phase of maturity. Over the past few years, online-business owners have improved their services in a number of ways. New technologies help consumers better evaluate products and consumers can now pick up or return merchandise purchased online. From the perspective of the buying-behavior that has been changed on the consumers, it is the right time to prepare online-store to adapt E-Commerce environments.

The Scripts for Shopping Cart Design

When we develop shopping cart, we will select one script programming of three different web programming languages that we currently provide for shopping cart design. Below is the brief description of each script programming language.

ASP Version: This programming language is dynamic and flexible. The data in a page is database-driven so that the shopping cart can easily be controlled and maintained in administration area. In other words, the contents for a web page are stored into the database using the interface provided from administration area and the contents stored in the database are retrived and viewed on the web page. The databases that can be used with this ASP script programming are MS Access and MS SQL.

PHP Version: This programming language is also dynamic and flexible. The data in a page is database-driven so that the shopping cart can also be controlled and maintained in administration area. The databases that can be used with this PHP  programming is MySQL. Unlike ASP and ASP.NET versions, PHP and MySQL database are open source, which is free version. So, the usage of database will be much more flexible and affordable than MS SQL.

If you choose ASP or ASP.NET programming with MS Access database for shopping cart design, the website could be down when the traffice volume of the website is increased. If you consider that many products are uploaded and many customers visit your web store, you'd be better to select MS SQL database. However, the cost of MS SQL will be high when the shopping cart is installed on virtual dedicated server or dedicated server. MySQL database is a free version so that the usuage of MySQL can avoid the high cost on operating and maintaining the shopping cart. However, when we design the shopping cart with MySQL database, only PHP script will be used for programming.