What Is It?

CubeCart is powerful XHTML & CSS valid shopping cart script that uses PHP & MySQL and that is developed by Devellion Ltd. Now used by over one million online shops, it can be used to sell everything from apples to xylophones. The latest version of CubeCart 4.2.0 was released on 20 February 2008, and it carries many more features than the previous CubeCart v3.

Who Is it For?

CubeCartv4 isn’t for the faint of heart, and it won’t work on many Web servers that don’t upgrade to PHP5. The previous version of CubeCart, however, is PHP4 friendly, which means it can be used on most Web hosts. Realizing this discrepency in hosting changes, CubeCart version 3 will continue to have maintenance releases including bug fixes and security patches. Outside this issue, CubeCart newbies can begin to utilize CubeCart immediately if they’re familiar with a 100% template-driven XHTML and CSS valid interface.

Finally, CubeCart isn’t free, so users must purchase the software and the accompanying free license to use it. Additional licenses will be provided with an added cost, and copyright removal keys also add to the final total. Users who aren’t familiar with XHTML or CSS can hire a design and programming service to get the shopping software up and running and to integrate it with any current Web presence. All users can try a free demo to see how the software works before purchase.

Features

CubeCartv3 offers unlimited capability to carry products, categories, and images per product. It also includes Spambot Flood Protection, product search, log search phrases that can be viewed in the administration control panel, customer order history and multiple unique stores with one database. Version 4 offers all this plus custom SEO-friendly URL paths, a skin selector, the ability to add or edit orders from the control panel, courier tracking URL, advanced product search, gift certificates, Firefox extension, module import capabilities, alternate checkouts, PayPal standard improvements for multiple stores using IPN (all countries) and more.

Compatibility

Users can set up CubeCart with any host as long as you have hosting supporting PHP and one MySQL database. As mentioned previously, the new version 4 requires PHP Version 5.2 or later on the server that will host CubeCart. ZendOptimizer or Ioncube will need to be installed on WIndows servers in order to run CubeCart v4. On Linux/Unix servers ZendOptimizer is not required but the hosting account must be able to load IonCube loader files.

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