RMBcart
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[edit] Overview
[edit] What it is
RMBcart is a project which was born out of necessity for a shopping cart for RMBstore. RMBstore naturally comes with RMBcart integrated into it, and should be considered part of RMBstore, but RMBcart can function as a standalone shopping cart and be easily integrated into any website.
RMBcart functions as a shopping cart as well as an order processing system for any website which it is integrated into. Currently, it comes with the ability to take payments with credit cards, paypal accounts, or by mail with a check. Credit card processing is done through Paypal's Website Payments Pro, but plugins can be written for other credit card processors.
RMBcart was developed using quiltedtoatee.com as a test environment, I wanted a place to develop the cart without having to first build a fake store to test it in. I already had a store website with Quilted to a Tee, so I used it as a test bed. At the time of this writing, quiltedtoatee.com has RMBcart running on their online store.
[edit] What it is not
RMBcart does not have the ability to create or manage products. It does not store a list of products nor does it force you to define your products in a certain way. Many online shopping carts are really shopping carts / product management tools. RMBcart was designed to adapt to any product management tool, but not be one. You will have to manage your own products and teach RMBcart how to deal with them. More details in the integration guide.
[edit] Using RMBcart
[edit] Download
You can obtain sources using Subversion through the richbellamy.com Subversion server. If you have Subversion installed on your machine, you can obtain the latest sources by typing this on the command line:
svn co svn://svn.richbellamy.com/rmbcart/trunk/ rmbcart
At the time of this writing Rich 08:43, 19 October 2006 (EDT), there is also one tagged release, "0.1" which is a snapshot from last night when I was satisfied for a 0.1 release. There is also a branch called "new-development". See it at http://www.richbellamy.com/repository/rmbcart/
Minor bug fixes as necessary will be committed to trunk, with a major development going on in the new-development branch. The 0.1 tag will be frozen as tags usually are.
[edit] Installation
See the integration guide: Integrating RMBcart
