Dansie Shopping Cart 3.33
By Dansie Website Design

Copyright © Dec 10, 1997-2002

The ReadMe may be big, not because the Dansie Shopping Cart is difficult to set up, but because it has so many customizable options! Most likely you will only need to define 5 variables in order to initially get your cart working! Enjoy.

1. Disclaimer and legal stuff
2. Description of Contents of ZIP file
3. About Template.html
4. About lang.dat
5. How to install the Dansie Shopping Cart
6. Important rules of thumb
7. The SINGLE VARIABLE in cart.pl (for rare situations)
8. Setting HOST variables
9. Setting PERSONAL variables
10. How shipping is calculated
11. Setting SECURE SERVER variables (Real-time credit card processors)
12. Setting DATABASE variables (If you choose to use product databases)
13. Advanced Database Features

§1 DISCLAIMER AND LEGAL STUFF:

License Agreement
Use of the Dansie Shopping Cart software is subject to the terms of the license agreement. By using this software you signify that you have read the license agreement and accept its terms. Your purchase of a Dansie Shopping Cart license entitles you to one (1) working copy of the script per license. You may NOT copy, reproduce, resell, or give away copies of the script in any way shape or form without first purchasing additional licenses. You may make one back up copy should something happen to the working copy on your host. You may not make any modifications to the Dansie Shopping Cart script except as instructed in the ReadMe. The small text link and credit to http://www.dansie.net must remain in the script and appear at the bottom of the various pages of shopping cart script. Violation of this license agreement may void your license without refund, your right to technical support and subject you to legal action. Do not attempt to run the cart.pl script on a site other than which it was licensed for.

If you believe you may have received an unlicensed copy of the Dansie Shopping Cart software (the Perl script) or you have information about someone conducting piracy, please contact us at piracy@dansie.net.

If you wish to customize the appearance of your cart further, feel free to insert text and HTML tags in your lang.dat and vars.dat files.

Security Check List:

The Dansie Shopping Cart (cart.pl script) does not handle credit card numbers. The ssl.pl script can collect your customers credit card numbers for you. The Dansie Shopping Cart can be configured with varying levels of security from very high to very low. How high security is set is the responsibility of you, the merchant. If you want the ssl.pl script to collect credit card numbers for you and you have a site security certificate, then the numbers will be encrypted during their journey from your customers computer to your website. If you set SSV#10 so that the ssl.pl script will work with PGP then credit card numbers can be encrypted before they are emailed to you or written to encrypted data files on your host. If you are going to hire the services of a real-time credit card processor then you don't need to worry about using a site security certificate, the ssl.pl script or PGP. Also important are other security factors not related to the Dansie Shopping Cart such as if your website's cgi-bin directory can be browsed from a web browser via: http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/. This is especially important if you want to have the ssl.pl script write credit card numbers to a directory on your host. That directory can be password protected with .htaccess and .htpasswd files. Personal Variables that relate to security are Personal Variables #55 and #66. Database Variable #1 can also be an important variable concerning security.

Dansie Website Design will not be held responsible for any type of damage or loss of time that may occur as a result of using this script. This includes but is not limited to the corruption or loss of data on your host. (Not that we intentionally put anything in it that will cause any problems on your host, we just have to say this to cover ourselves.) Customer assumes full responsibility for any damages or loss of time that may occur.

Online technical support is available with all shopping cart purchases. This includes answers to any questions you may have about installation, the HTML forms and flat-file databases. If you purchased the Mall Version, we will provide technical support to you, however, you must provide technical support to your merchants when they have questions about HTML forms and flat-file databases. Always send the URL to the cart.pl script when you write and a brief description of your problem so we can see it and help you.
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?vars

Please read all instructions carefully. Do not attempt to set any variables in the vars.dat file until you have read the corresponding instructions for that variable in this ReadMe.

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§2 DESCRIPTION OF CONTENTS OF ZIP FILE:

cart.pl       (The cart script)
ssl.pl        (An extra script for SSL)
ReadMe.html   (Instructions)
template.html (HTML form examples)
vars.dat      (Variables)
lang.dat      (Language)
shopperid.dat (An empty file. Each shopper will be assigned a number. This file was formerly called "invoice.dat")
cart.gif      ("View Cart" image)
stuff.dat     (An example database file. The use of which is optional.)

If you have difficulty opening vars.dat or lang.dat, try renaming them to vars.txt and lang.txt. Open them with WordPad or NotePad. Before (or after) you upload them to your cgi-bin on your host, rename them back to ".dat".

The shopperid.dat file is like the cart's counter. It increments when a new person uses the cart, and not when an order is placed. Your website visitors may play with your cart without placing an order. So if you only see orders with shopper ID numbers 15, 25, 33, 38, etc, that is normal.

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§3 ABOUT TEMPLATE.HTML:

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§4 ABOUT LANG.DAT:

lang.dat is a data file that contains the language that your cart will speak. It's just a list of phrases that the cart uses. Feel free to modify lang.dat to suit your needs better. Some people have even put HTML tags in it to make radical changes to the appearance of their cart. If you are seeing a lot of HTML tags appearing in the email receipts, then set Personal Variable #57 to "text/html" (without the quotes). Would you like some custom text or HTML to appear at the top or bottom of your shopping cart pages? See lang.dat #111 and #114.
Would you like to have the cart aligned right or left? Set lang.dat #111 and #114 with some tables tags like so:
111 (footer) --></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV>
114 (header) --><DIV ALIGN=RIGHT><TABLE WIDTH=80%><TR><TD>

You may put JavaScript tags in your lang.dat variables, but make sure that you precede any single quotes with a back slash like so:
<SELECT NAME=example OnChange=\'SomeFunction()\';>

All of the submit buttons that you see in the dynamically generated pages of the cart can be converted to image buttons instead. This is for you advanced web designers who want to customize almost every detail of your site. First you would create your images. Then you would put the URL to the images in one or more of these lang.dat variables: 19, 35, 38, 41, 88, 146, 148. Also, Database Variable #15 can be substituted with an image too. The current text in the lang variables indicates what that variable is for.

There are two buttons in the cart that cannot be changed to image buttons. They are the "Same As Above" shipping/billing address copy button in lang.dat #105 and the "PRINT THIS PAGE FOR YOUR RECEIPT" button that appears at the bottom of receipt pages for Netscape browsers in lang.dat #13. These are not submit buttons but rather JavaScript buttons and need to remain that way. An image wont work for those two.

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§5 HOW TO INSTALL THE DANSIE SHOPPING CART:

If you have never uploaded a CGI Perl script to your cgi-bin before, section 6 will provide you with some helpful tips.

STEP 1:

Set the first 5 HOST VARIABLES at the top of the vars.dat file. Only the HOST VARIABLES are required to get the script running. You can set the other variables later after you get cart.pl running. Refer to the HOST VARIABLES section below in this ReadMe for detailed instructions on the HOST VARIABLES. Do not attempt to run the cart.pl script on a site other than which it was licensed for.

STEP 2:

Upload all four of these files into the SAME directory, most likely your cgi-bin. Perhaps your cgi-bin will be called "cgi-local" or "cgi" or something similar. If your host says that scripts must have the ".cgi" extension, then rename "cart.pl" to "cart.cgi". The script can work either way.

Chmod your cart.pl script 755. Chmod the shopperid.dat file 777. "chmod" is only necessary on a Unix host. If your site is hosted on a Windows NT server don't worry about "chmod".

STEP 3:

Make sure your cgi-bin's permissions are set to 755. If not then chmod your cgi-bin 755. Manually create a directory called "temp" with your FTP program inside your cgi-bin directory and chmod "temp" 777. (We formerly named this directory "carts". Either "temp" or "carts" will work fine.) The "temp" directory will be used by the cart.pl script as it's memory. It will use the "temp" directory to record shoppers cart contents. If permissions on this directory are not set as writable the cart.pl script may keep reporting, "Sorry, your cart is currently empty". Most likely you will never need to look in this directory or even concern yourself with what is in it.

STEP 4:

Point your web browser at your script like so:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?test

The script may give you further installation instructions if you forgot to do anything. If the cart tells you that you need to define a single variable at the top of the cart.pl script, then see the SINGLE VARIABLE section in this ReadMe (Section 7).

If the script is successfully installed, you will see a test item to put into the shopping cart. Put the test item into the shopping cart. If you see a display of that item in the shopping cart, then all is working fine. Now you can set all your other variables in the vars.dat file.

If your Dansie Shopping Cart is not working, or does strange things, see "Trouble Shooting" below.

STEP 5:

Refer to the Template.html for creating some of your own product forms, or the database section in this ReadMe for info on creating product databases. The use of product databases are optional.

Trouble Shooting:

If your shopping cart continually tells you that your cart is empty, manually create a directory called "temp" with your FTP program in your cgi-bin directory (same directory where your vars.dat and cart.pl script is in). Chmod "temp" 777 if your host is Unix.

If the shopper ID number never increments past "1", make sure "shopperid.dat" is in your cgi-bin and chmod "shopperid.dat" 777 (writable).

If you are hosted on a Windows NT host and the shopping cart keeps saying that it is empty, it is because the permissions on the "temp" directory is not globally writable. Contact your host and ask them to set permissions on the "temp" directory and the "shopperid.dat" file so that the cart.pl script will have permission to write and re-write to them. Go here for a diagnostic:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?write_test

If you get an Internal Server Error:

1. Read the important rules of thumb again (Section 6).
   1. Are you running/installing it on the domain that you registered the software license for?
   2. Does your host allow you to run Perl scripts?
   3. Did you upload cart.pl into a directory that your host allows you to run Perl scripts in? (Most commonly called "cgi-bin".)
   4. Did you upload cart.pl in ASCII format NOT binary?
   5. Did you chmod your cgi-bin and cart.pl script 755 (Unix only)?
2. Check your HOST variables in your vars.dat file.
3. Try changing the very first line in the cart.pl script from:
   #!/usr/bin/perl
   To:
   #!/usr/local/bin/perl
4. Email us at: cart@dansie.net. Include the exact URL to your cart.pl script and a copy of your vars.dat file and we will quickly help you figure out what's wrong.

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§6 IMPORTANT RULES OF THUMB:

HTML and FTP expert:

You must be an expert at HTML and FTP to install and enjoy the use of the Dansie Shopping Cart. You don't need to know anything about CGI or Perl. Always upload your perl scripts to your host in ASCII format. Not Binary. After uploading your script, chmod it 755 if your host is Unix. Make sure the directory that your cart.pl script is in is executable (755). Never touch the innards of the script. Only change the single variable at the top of the script if you need to. You may need to rename your script "cart.cgi" instead of "cart.pl" depending upon your host.

Always save changes to your vars.dat and lang.dat files in "plain text" only. No special mark up or encoding of any kind. Notepad always saves files as plain text, but be careful when using Wordpad that you save it as "plain text" or "text document" only. Always upload these files to your cgi-bin on your host in ASCII format and not binary.

System Paths and URLs:

This ReadMe will speak of "URLs" and "system paths". URL stand for Uniform Resource Locator. It is a website address that starts with "http" and is accessed via a web browser. A system path is a local path to a file on your hosts machine. Perl accesses files on your host's machine with system paths. System paths on Unix hosts start with a slash "/". System paths on Windows NT hosts start with a drive letter and a colon like so: "c:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/vars.dat"

URL examples:
http://www.dansie.net
http://www.dansie.net/cart.html

System path examples:
/usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin
c:/home/YourName/cgi-bin

Try to keep this in mind and not get URLs and system paths confused.

How do you know if the script is working?

Just point your web browser to it with a "test" query string and it will give you diagnostic tools if you installed it correctly. Example, type this at the top of your web browser:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?test

If you get an Internal Server Error:

1. Read the important rules of thumb again (Section 6).
   1. Are you running/installing it on the domain that you registered the software license for?
   2. Does your host allow you to run Perl scripts?
   3. Did you upload cart.pl into a directory that your host allows you to run Perl scripts in? (Most commonly called "cgi-bin".)
   4. Did you upload cart.pl in ASCII format NOT binary?
   5. Did you chmod your cgi-bin and cart.pl script 755 (Unix only)?
2. Check your HOST variables in your vars.dat file.
3. Try changing the very first line in the cart.pl script from:
   #!/usr/bin/perl
   To:
   #!/usr/local/bin/perl
4. Email us at: cart@dansie.net. Include the exact URL to your cart.pl script and a copy of your vars.dat file and we will quickly help you figure out what's wrong.

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§7 SINGLE VARIABLE:

There are NO variables to configure in the cart.pl script unless:

$vars = "/your/system/path/to/your/data/file/vars.dat";
Or if on a Windows_NT server, something like this:
$vars =  "D:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/vars.dat";

You may have trouble opening cart.pl if "pl" is not a file extension that your computer recognizes. In Windows, right click on the cart.pl icon, and select "Open with...". Then, select a plain text reader from one of your programs such as NotePad or WordPad. That should open it for you.

$vars must be the system location and name of your vars.dat file. All other variables are located in the vars.dat file.

These URLs may yield the system path:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?env
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?path
When you send the "env" query string to your cart it will display your system's environment variables for you (provided you uploaded it in ASCII and chmoded it 755).

If you are still not sure of your system path, ask your host, they will know.

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§8 HOST VARIABLES:

When installing the Dansie Shopping Cart, remember, you most likely only need to set the first 5 Host Variables to get your cart running.

1 Full URL location to cart.pl script -->http://www.YourName.net/cgi-bin/cart.pl
This is your shopping cart's URL location and name. Full URL path not system path.

Make sure that this URL matches exactly what you have (or will have) in the ACTION attribute in the FORM tags of your HTML product forms. For example, notice these two URLs are NOT the same:
http://www.YourName.net/cgi-bin/cart.pl
http://YourName.net/cgi-bin/cart.pl

Do not attempt to run the cart.pl script on a site other than which it was licensed for.

2 Default return shopping URL -->http://www.YourName.net/store.html
This is the default "Return Shopping" URL for when people click the "Continue Shopping" button at the bottom of the shopping cart. You may specify return URLs in the HTML forms for every product that is purchased like so:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=return VALUE="http://www.dansie.net/demo.html">
You must use a full URL. A full URL begins with "http://" (or "https://" if you are using a site security certificate). Example:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="return" VALUE="http://www.YourName.com/page.html">
And NOT like this:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="return" VALUE="page.html">
See Template.html for more details. But if you don't use the "return" tag in an HTML form, this variable will be the default return shopping URL. If your website uses frames, do NOT set this to: http://www.YourName.com but rather http://www.YourName.com/main.html In other words, don't set this to the parent document on a framed website, set it to the main child page or you will get frames within frames.

3 URL to images or thumb-nail directory -->http://www.YourName.net/images
Specify a base URL for where all your product thumb nail images are located so that you only need to say:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=img VALUE="img.gif">
instead of:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=img VALUE="http://www.YourHost.com/img.gif">
in your HTML forms.
(However, your images will still work if you use a full URL in your forms. This makes Dansie Shopping Cart flexible.)

4 URL to Custom image or company logo -->http://www.YourName.net/logo.gif
Custom image for cart.pl to use that represents your business. This can be your company logo. Full URL path and name to this gif/jpg.

5 URL to wallpaper -->http://www.YourName.net/wp.jpg
This is a full URL path to some wallpaper that you may use in your shopping cart script. If you wish to use a solid background color instead, just leave this blank and set Personal Variable #15.


Note: In most cases you will never need to set Host Variables 6 through 12.

6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->
This variable is so your shopping cart can send you an email when someone places an order and also email your customer a receipt. The email will contain the products that you need to ship to them, the prices and the totals.

c:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\Blat.exe -install mail.yourhost.com youruserid@yourname.com

7 Date program path -->/bin/date
Get the location of Perl's date program on your host. Email your host and ask them if you don't know what the path is. If you don't see the date and time at the top of receipt pages, then you don't have the correct date path. If you are waiting to hear from your host about this system path, you may leave this variable blank and the cart will still work. The cart will try to see if it can grab a default system time for you. If you wish, you may run the cart with this variable blank indefinitely. If you are on a Unix host, you may adjust the time and date with switches like so:
7 Date program path -->/bin/date -u "+%d/%m/%y %T"

8 System path to shoppers data files ("temp" directory) -->
This is the system path to a directory where data files will be kept of your customers shopping cart contents. You will only need to set this variable if you want to change it's default location. Otherwise leave this variable blank. If you want to change it's default location and you are not sure what your system path is, ask your host. This is a system path to a directory that is located next to your cart.pl script in the same directory as your cart.pl script. The name of this directory is "temp".
WARNING! Make sure you keep NOTHING else in this directory, because the shopping cart goes through it and deletes old files!

Examples:
/path/to/cgi-bin/temp          (UNIX)
D:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/temp  (Windows_NT)

9 System path and name of shopperid.dat file -->
You will only need to set this variable if you want to change it's default location. Otherwise leave this variable blank. This is a system path to what is basically a count file (shopperid.dat). It will keep track of how many people have used your shopping cart and use this number as a shopper ID number. The default location of this auto generated file will be in the same directory as your cart.pl script.

Examples:
/path/to/cgi-bin/shopperid.dat         (UNIX)
D:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/shopperid.dat (Windows_NT)

10 System path and name of language File -->
This is the system path and name of your lang.dat file. You will only need to set this variable if you want to change it's default location. Otherwise you can leave this variable blank. What language do you want your cart to speak today?

/path/to/cgi-bin/lang.dat          (UNIX)
D:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/lang.dat  (Windows_NT)

11 Frames target name -->
If your site is not using frames, then leave this blank. If your site uses frames you may leave this variable blank as well. If using frames you may set this to the name of the main frame that you want the cart to appear in. In most cases, it will work if you just leave this variable blank.

12 Parent Frame URL -->
If your site is not using frames, then leave this blank. If your site uses frames then set this to the main URL of your site, like http://www.YourName.com This should be a URL to the parent document that loads all your frames. Where as Host Variable #2 is a URL to a child page like http://www.YourName.com/RightFrame.html. Note: During a Secure Online Credit Card Transaction, the cart script will make the cart frame assume the entire browser window to effectuate the lock at the top of the browser. After a credit card transaction the link at the bottom of the receipt page will return the customer to the URL defined in this variable.

If your cart is loading frames within frames when you click on the "Continue Shopping" button in the cart, check the URLs in the "return" tags of your HTML forms and make sure they are pointing to a child page and not parent document.
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=return VALUE="http://www.YourName.net/ChildPage.html">

13 merchant_passwords.dat location -->
This variable may be used if you have the Mall Version. You may leave it blank. However if you wish to change the default location of the merchant_passwords.dat file then you may do so by setting this to a system path. The default location for this file is in the same directory as the main default vars.dat file.

14 Login SSL URL -->
This variable may be used if you have the Mall Version. If you have a site security certificate and you wish to allow your hosted merchants to login via "https", then set this variable with an "https" URL to the cart.pl script. They would then be able to download credit card information in a secure manner. You only need to set this variable in the default vars.dat file in your cgi-bin. You don't need to set it in each and every one of your merchants vars.dat files.

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§9 PERSONAL VARIABLES:

1 Custom Options -->20
With every item you can have an array of custom descriptions. Such as color of shirt, size of shirt, or other attributes that might actually change the price of that item according to your specifications. These options would be in the SELECT, CHECKBOX, RADIO, TEXT and HIDDEN tags of your HTML forms. You can have as many custom descriptions of your items as you need. It is recommended for performance reasons that you keep this variable as small as possible. For example, if an item of yours that contains the largest number of custom descriptions comes to 20, then set this to 20. There is no need for the shopping cart script to search for higher variable values in this array. Default is set at 20. Example: The mens tie on the Dansie Shopping Cart website uses 3 custom name/value pairs. Size, Color, and Clip. http://www.dansie.net/demo.html If we were to use a stock number tag with the tie like this:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom4" VALUE="Stock# 0004">
Then this item would have 4 custom descriptions. For more info on this, see Template.html.

This variable also sets the maximum number of items you will be having in your "multi-items" forms. See Section 2 of Template.html for details about "multi-items" forms. For example, the Banana Split, Pineapple and Watermelon on this page http://www.dansie.net/demo.html has three items in this "multi-items" form. If you had a "multi-items" form that has 30 items in it, then set this no lower than 30. You only need to set this as high as the number of multi-items you have in any one form. Not as many items you have advertised on your entire site. So if you have 10 multi-item forms on your website and each form has 10 items in it, you would only need to set this variable as high as 10 and not 100.

2 Order details are emailed to the merchant here -->cart@dansie.net
This is where you put your email address. When someone orders something a copy of the order details will be emailed to you. This email that the cart sends you will help you fill their order. Need to send copies of the order to more than one address? Just set this variable like so:

sales@YourName.net, orders@YourName.net, dropshipper@YourName.net

Separated by either commas, spaces or both. Note: If you are using the ssl.pl script, customers credit card numbers will be emailed to the email address(s) you set in Secure Server Variable #11.

The cart can also send receipts to www.Jfax.com. This is a neat email to fax service. Just put your authorized email address in the first position of PV#2 and put your Jfax email address in any other position.

3 Data file extension-->dat
This is nothing technical. It just tells your cart script what file extension to name the data files of your customer's carts that appear in your "temp" directory. Default is dat. You could change it to txt or others, but you can just leave it alone.

4 Business name -->ABC Widget Company
This is the name of your business. Don't leave this variable blank. If you don't want your business name to appear at the top of the carts pages, then set PV#44 to 0.

5 Checks payable to -->John Doe
This is who you want your customer to make their checks and money orders payable to. Perhaps it will be the same as Business Name (#4) above.

6 Guarantee statement on receipt page -->If not completely satisfied with any item within 30 days, return in original packaging for a refund.
This one is pretty self explanatory. This statement will be displayed on the webpage after a customer has made a purchase.

7 Address name -->ABC Widget Company. Attn: John Doe
This is the name of the mailing address of your company. Why three variables for the same name you ask? (4,5 and 7). This provides flexibility. This could be exactly the same as business name (#4) above.

8 Street address -->1234 Main Street
This is your street address.

9 City, state, zip -->New York, NY 22222
This is your city, state and zip.

10 Toll free phone number for cc transactions -->1-800-555-1212
This is where you put your telephone number for Credit Card Transactions Via Telephone. If you don't have a phone number and are not going to provide this payment option for your customers, then just leave this variable empty. Example:
10 Toll free phone number for cc transactions -->

11 Website address -->www.YourName.net
This is your website address. Why again if we covered it in Host Variable #2? This variable wont be a link, just printed on the screen. You can have these two variables the same if you want. Or you may have this one say "yourname.com" instead of "http://www.yourname.com". Its up to you.

12 Allow Sales Tax -->1
The Dansie Shopping Cart can calculate sales tax (or VAT) 5 different ways:
0 = No sales tax. The cart will not calculate any sales tax.
1 = Allow sales tax on subtotal.
2 = Force sales tax on subtotal.
3 = Allow sales tax on subtotal and shipping charges.
4 = Force sales tax on subtotal and shipping charges.

If you are selling a few items that are nontaxable, then use this tag in the corresponding item's HTML form.
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom2" VALUE="#nontaxable#">
Of course, make sure the name "custom2" is not in conflict with any other custom name. See Template.html for details on "custom".

If you set this variable to either 2 or 4 then it's recommended that you keep the Sales Tax State Verification feature in PV#76 turned off.

13 Your State(s) of taxation -->California
This is the state(s) you are in where you need to collect sales tax. If you need to collect tax in more than one state define this variable like so:
13 Your State(s) of taxation -->California,Nevada,Hawaii
If you only need to collect sales tax in one state, the cart will display a checkbox. If you need to collect tax in multiple states, the cart will display a select pull-down menu. See also the sales tax state verification feature in PV#76.

If you have PV#12 set to something other than 0 (off), then don't leave this variable blank. Put something in here such as your state or province of sales taxation or VAT.

14 State sales tax rate -->7.75
This is the sales tax rate in your state. If you need to collect tax in more than one state define this variable like so:
14 State sales tax rate -->7.75,6.00,4.00
If you are collecting sales tax in multiple states, make sure the numbers here correspond in order with the states defined in #13 above.

15 bgcolor -->#FFFFFF
This is the background color of the pages of your shopping cart if no wallpaper is defined in Host Variable #5.

Want to control the LINK and VLINK colors in the BODY tag of the carts dynamic pages? Set Personal Variable #15 like so:
-->#FFFFFF" LINK=#0000FF VLINK=#000099 "
Or with marginheight and marginwidth:
-->#FFFFFF" marginheight=0 marginwidth=0 "
Copy and paste this into your vars.dat file. Looks funny, but it will work.

16 Header font color -->#FF0000
This is the header font color in the shopping cart.

17 Header font face -->Times New Roman
This is the header face font in the shopping cart.

18 Header font size -->+2
This is the size of the headers in the shopping cart.

19 Standard font color -->#000000
This is the standard font color of the shopping cart.

20 Standard font face -->Times New Roman


21 Standard font size -->+1


22 Thumb-nail image borders -->2
Define the width of the borders around your thumb-nail images. Can be 0 and up.

23 Shopper's data expires -->3.0
This is the amount of days that shopping cart data files are allowed to remain on your host in the "temp" directory, before the shopping cart script deletes them. This makes Dansie Shopping Cart really intelligent and tidy, and prevents you from eventually running out of web space on your host. If you set this variable too low, your shoppers baskets could be erased before they are finished completing their order. Between 1 and 3 days are recommended settings.

3.0  = three days.
1.0  = one day.
0.5  = 12 hours.
0.08 = two hours.
0.04 = one hour.

It doesn't immediately remove the following because the sales are not yet final. The customer may decide to go back and add a couple more items to their cart before calling in their credit card number or mailing you their check.

24 Secure online cc transaction payment option -->1
If this is set to 1 then the option of Secure online credit card transaction will appear in the shopping cart. If set to 0 then it will not appear. If you are going to accept credit cards as a payment option, see Section 11 in this ReadMe for details on setting that up.

After Secure Online Credit Card Transactions, Online Check Drafts and COD orders, the customers data file is immediately erased because the order is considered final. However, with Credit Card Transaction Via Telephone and Check Or Money Order, the contents of their shopping cart are not erased as the order is not final and the customer could still choose to go back and add more items to their cart before they send you their check or call you.

25 Transaction via toll free number payment option -->1
Enables credit card transaction via toll free phone number.

26 Check or Money Order payment option -->1
Enables transaction via Check or Money Order.

The "Check or Money Order" payment option is not designed to take your customers shipping address if you set it to "1". It just gives them a custom order form that they can print out and mail to you with their check/money order. If you would like the cart script to take your customers shipping address and notify you by email when they may be placing an order via "Check or Money Order", then set this variable to "2" (Without the quotes.)

Notes: Remember, you never know if the customer is really going to order the products until you receive their check in the mail. Therefore, the contents of your customers shopping cart will not be immediately erased after they place their order. This way if your customer decides to go back and add just one more item to their cart, they wont find it empty and get frustrated.

27 Allow shipping -->1
The cart has five shipping methods you can use:

See Section 10 for detailed information on setting up shipping charges.

28 Show shipping weight with each item -->0
If you set #27 above to 0 or 2, then ignore this variable. If you set this to 1 then you will see shipping with each item on the invoices. If you set this to 0 then you will only see shipping at the bottom of each invoice. Try it either way and see which you like best. If you set this to 1, make sure you define #32 below also.

29 Shipping methods -->Standard UPS,2 day UPS,Next day UPS,Europe,Australia
If you set #27 above to 0 or 2, then ignore this variable. This is an array containing all of the shipping methods you want to offer if you are doing shipping by the weight of your items. Separate them with commas like you see here. You may define anywhere from 1 to 100 shipping locations (or more). Nice huh?

30 Initial shipping cost of first pound -->5.95,8.95,18.95,15.00,20.00
If you set #27 above to 0 or 2, then ignore this variable. These are the prices of the initial shipping costs of each item (per pound/kilo). They must correspond in order with #29 above. Set them to whatever you need to. Then, in each product's HTML form, use a tag like this:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="sh" VALUE="1">
"sh" means shipping and handling. "1" means one pound/kilo.

Do you want the cart to say something like "Call for shipping quote" and not have any numeric value appear in the SELECT pull-down menu? Then set both PV#30 and PV#31 like so:
30 Initial shipping cost of first pound -->0.00
The "0.00" will tell the cart to not show ANY number (price) in that option.

31 Shipping cost for each additional pound -->.50,.50,.50,2,3
These are the costs of each additional (pound/kilo) per unit. They must also correspond in order with the #29 and #30 above. Example: If someone selects "Standard UPS" and their order has 3 pounds (or kilos) of products in it, the cart will charge 5.95 + .50 + .50 (6.95 total.)

Do you want the cart to say something like "Call for shipping quote" and not have any numeric value appear in the SELECT pull-down menu? Then set both PV#30 and PV#31 like so:
30 Initial shipping cost of first pound -->0.00
The "0.00" will tell the cart to not show ANY number (price) in that option.

32 Type of measure of weight. lbs or kg, etc. or just "units" -->Lbs.
This concept allows your shopping cart to be very accurate about shipping costs. You may set this to lbs or kg, etc. or just "units". The shopping cart doesn't really understand what a pound or kilo is, but this word that you define here will be displayed in the shopping cart if you have #28 above set to 1. It will be there to tell your customer how many "pounds" an item weighs for S&H purposes.

33 Is your host currently resolving IP addresses? -->1
1 = yes. 0 = no.
Sometimes hosts don't resolve IP addresses and in the email that you receieve it will say something like 208.222.43.221 as the IP address. You may convert that to something like this: wt-03.aol.com But at first, just leave this at 1. Later, if you notice that all the IP addresses look like "208.222.43.221" then set this variable to 0.

34 Shipping calculated by amount of purchase: Locations -->USA,Canada,U.S. Territories
You only need to set this variable if you set #27 above to 2. These values must correspond in order with the values in #35 below. The locations above are separated by commas. The corresponding shipping costs in #35 below are separated by vertical pipe symbols "|". You may define as many locations as you wish.

35 Shipping calculated by amount of purchase: Amounts -->55,3.95,100,5|55,6.95,100,10|55,9.95,100,20
You only need to set this variable if you set #27 above to 2. #35 above contains shipping calculation information for the three corresponding locations defined in #34 above. The three sets of information are separated by "|". The purchase amounts and shipping charges are separated by commas. In the above example, "55" is the lowest purchase amount defined for USA. The next number, "3.95", is the shipping charge (for any purchase amounts under $55). The third number, "100", is the highest purchase amount defined for USA in this example. The fourth number, "5", means that $5.00 will be charged for any purchase amounts that are under $100. Any purchase amounts $100 or over, will be "free shipping" or "shipping included" in this example. In the above example shipping for USA would be calculated like so:

Order sub-totals Under $55                            - $3.95 s&h
Order sub-totals Under $100 (but greater than $54.99) - $5.00
Any order $100 and over                               - s&h is free.

Always set this variable from smallest order totals to largest (ie, 55 to 100, not 100 to 55). Any sub-total equaling or exceeding the highest defined would be considered free shipping, so define it as high as you need to. Example: 55,3.95,100,5,200,10,500,25,1000,50

If you want to use percentages instead of flat charges, set this variable like so:
100,5%,200,4%,1000,3%,1000000,2%|etc|etc

5% shipping for orders totaling $100 or less.
4% shipping for orders totaling $200 or less.
3% shipping totaling $1000 or less.
2% shipping totaling $1000000 or less.
Free shipping when subtotal is over $1000000.


Do you want the cart to say something like "Call for shipping quote" and not have any numeric value appear in the SELECT pull-down menu? Then set PV#35 like so:
35 Shipping calculated by amount of purchase: Amounts -->0.00
The "0.00" will tell the cart to not show ANY number (price) in that option.

36 Currency Symbol and decimals -->$|2|,
This variable has three fields separated by the "|" (pipe) character. The first field will be the currency symbol you want the cart to display. The second field is how many decimal places you want the cart to use with your currency. The third field is what character you want used to separate the currency every three digits. Examples:
36 Currency Symbol and decimals -->$|2|,
Which will yield: $ 9,999.99
36 Currency Symbol and decimals -->L|0|.
Which will yield: L 9.000
36 Currency Symbol and decimals -->£|2|,
Which will yield: £ 9,999.99
Note: If you have this variable set to use no decimals, then it's recommended to not use any decimals in your prices or the programs calculations may not appear correct. Also, if you use the Korean currency symbol "\" then you may need to leave Personal Variables #17 and #20 blank or the Korean browser may not display the Korean currency symbol correctly.

37 Email receipt to customer -->1
The Dansie Shopping Cart always gives your customer a printable receipt in their web browser. However, if you would like the cart to send them a receipt by email too, then set this variable to 1. If not, set it to 0.

38 Background color of various tables -->#ddFFFF
When a customer chooses "Check or Money Order" transaction, they get a printable custom order form. This form has a table where they print their shipping address. You can set the background color of this table here. If you leave it blank, the default is white. This is here in case you want to use a white font (#16) on your pages and still be able to read this table. This also sets the color in the row across the top of the shopping cart display where it says, Item: Description: Quantity: Each: Total:

39 IP addresses or cookies for shopper ID -->1
0 = IP address, browser and operating system info alone.
1 = Cookies first, but if disabled, use IP address, browser and operating system info.
2 = Cookies alone.

The recommended and most reliable way for the cart to identify your shoppers is if you set this variable to 1 AND your shoppers have cookies enabled in their browser.

40 Size of table borders when viewing shopping cart -->3
This will set the thickness of the borders in the HTML table on the page that your customers see after they put an item in the cart, or view the cart. If you set this to 0, there will be horizontal rules

between items for clarity.

41 The width of the table when viewing the shopping cart -->90%
Just like it says. If you are not sure what this does, set it to 50% and then put an item in your cart. You will see that the page seems too narrow. You may set this to pixels or percentages. Examples:
41 The width of the table when viewing the shopping cart -->85%
41 The width of the table when viewing the shopping cart -->600
41 The width of the table when viewing the shopping cart -->800

42 Online Check Draft Option -->icheck
Yes, a fourth payment option. This is related to #24, #25, #26 and #45. You have six options here.

Examples:
42 Online Check Draft Option -->0
42 Online Check Draft Option -->icheck
42 Online Check Draft Option -->http://www.dansie.net/cgi-bin/scripts/ssl.pl
42 Online Check Draft Option -->telecheck
42 Online Check Draft Option -->https://oec2.chexpedite.net/YOURID/NBDS_FromCart.asp

This variable is related to PV#50, PV#51 and PV#60.

43 Use "state" field in shipping address -->1
Europeans don't need to ask for this field in the shipping address. If you set this to 0, "state" will not appear in the shipping address forms. If you set it to 1, it will. Basically, if you expect all your customers will be outside the USA, then set this to 0, turning it off.

44 Show business name at top of all pages -->1
At the top of the pages that the shopping cart generates, you will see your business name followed by your company logo. Some customers have logos that have their business name in it and would like to suppress the display of their business name just above it. If you would like to do this, then set this variable to 0. Else, leave it at 1.

45 Cash On Delivery payment option -->9.50
A fifth payment option. This is related to #24, #25, #26 and #42. Set this to the price you want to charge your customers for shipping products to them in this manner. Set this to 0 if you do not wish to allow this payment option. If you wish to allow this payment option, but not charge anything for it, then set it to: "0.00".

46 Customer Comments -->30|4
This variable, if used, will create a TEXTAREA box where your customers enter their shipping information. You may solicit them for "Comments, questions, suggestions" or "Special shipping instructions" or a personal message if they are shipping the products to a loved one. This variable needs two numbers separated by the "|" character. The first number is the number of columns you want in the TEXTAREA. The second number is the number of rows you want in the TEXTAREA. Want to change the wording just above the TEXTAREA box? See lang.dat variable #99. If you do not wish to have this TEXTAREA box to appear in your cart, then either set this variable to 0 or leave it blank.
If you would like some default text to appear inside the TEXTAREA, then set a third field here like so:
46 Customer Comments -->60|8|What is your favorite color?<BR><BR>Favorite number?<BR><BR>Favorite rock band?<BR><BR>Favorite movie?
(Use the <BR> tag to indicate line breaks.)

47 Required fields -->name,company,address,city,state,zip,country,phone,email,comments
If you set PV#47 like you see above, then all shipping and billing address fields will be required. If any of these words are in this variable the cart will require that your customers include that info when they submit their shipping/billing address. If you don't want to require that your customers include their phone number, then don't put that word in this variable, etc.

48 Turn off all JavaScript -->0
The Dansie Shopping Cart uses a little JavaScript to autocalc prices in the buttons and a few other minor things. The cart's JavaScript is compatible with MSIE and Netscape browsers both new and older versions except with some Mac browser versions and version 3.01 of Netscape which has a bug with JavaScript being used inside of nested tables. However, these nice features are not necessary for the cart to work. You can turn all JavaScript off if you like. Just set this variable to 1.

49 Add and redirect -->0
The Dansie Shopping Cart has the ability to add your customers items to their cart without needing to actually load a new page and view their shopping cart contents everytime. If you set this variable to 1, it will activate the "Add and Redirect" feature. Set it to 0 and the cart will show your customer their shopping cart contents everytime they put an item in it. If you set this to 2, then your customers item will be added and they will be redirected without the JavaScript popup box.

If you would like to keep this variable set to 0, but you have a few products that you would like to use this feature with, then use this tag in those HTML product forms:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=redirect VALUE="1">
or
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=redirect VALUE="2">

Make sure the URLs in your HTML FORM tags are EXACTLY the same as the URL in Host Variable #1. For example, notice how these two URLs below are NOT the same:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl
http://YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl
One is missing the "www.". If you wish to run your shopping cart without the "www." in the URL, that is fine, just make sure that Host Variable #1 is set that way too. Otherwise, when using the Add and Redirect feature, the cart will keep informing you that it is empty.

50 i-check, ValidCheck ID or Telecheck ID -->
If you have an account with i-check, ValidCheck.com or Signio/Verisign's Telecheck for Online Check Drafts, then put your account ID here. Make sure you have Personal Variable #42 set to properly too.

Currency Exchange Rate Feature:
If you are having the Dansie Shopping Cart use a currency other than US Dollars, but need to have it translated to US Dollars before sending the customer to i-Check, then set this variable like so:
00000000|.80
The first field to the left of the "|" character will be your ID with i-Check like normal. The field on the right of the "|" character will be the exchange rate. The total will be divided by the number you place here before the customer is sent to i-Check.

51 Wallpaper URL or background color on check draft table -->#808080
If you have Personal Variable #42 set to the URL to your ssl.pl script and are going to have the shopping cart collect and send you your customers bank and check info, then set this variable to the full URL path to some wallpaper that you would like to have appear in the background of the check table. Or set it to a solid background color like you see here. If you are accessing your ssl.pl script via "https" then it is recommended to access this image via "https" too.

52 Webstore discount -->subtotal|100|10
The Dansie Shopping Cart can calculate discounts for your customers based upon either the "subtotal" or the total number of "items" they are purchasing. In the above example, if you set Personal Variable #52 this way in your vars.dat file, it will subtract 10% from any orders subtotaling $100 or more. If you set this variable like this: "items|10|15", the cart will apply a 15% discount if your customer orders 10 items or more. The first field must be either "subtotal" or "items". The second and third fields can be any numerical value you like. If you do not wish to use this feature leave this variable blank. If you would like to provide more discounts at a higher subtotal or item total, then add more values to PV#52 like so:
52 Webstore discount -->subtotal|500|10|600|15|1000|20
$500 gets a 10% discount. $600 gets a 15% discount. And $1000 gets a 20% discount. Etc.
The Dansie Shopping Cart has three discount features: Webstore Discount, Coupon Discount, and Volume Discount Pricing described in section 1C of the Template.html file.

If you have the cart set to use Webstore or Coupon discounts but you want certain items to always be full price and never be discounted, then use a tag like so:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom1" VALUE="#nodiscount#">
In order to reduce confusion for your customers it is highly recommended to include another custom description tag like this:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom2" VALUE="No discounts on this item.">

53 Email Signature -->Dansie Shopping Cart|CGI Software for your webstore|http://www.dansie.net|cart@dansie.net
You can have this info appended to the bottom of email receipts that get sent to your customers. Put your name, company slogan, mailing address, website address, email address, phone number here, etc. Use the "|" to indicate where you want line breaks. If you don't wish to use a signature, then leave this blank. If you set this to "default" (without the quotes), the shopping cart will automatically put your business name (PV#4), website address (HV#2) and email address (PV#2) at the bottom of the email receipts.

54 Paper color font -->
Some people like to use a black background and a white font. However, you can't read it when you print it out on a printer. If you must use a white font, but want to use a different color on your receipt pages so your customer can read what they print out, set this to the receipt page font color and either wallpaper or background color. Example:
54 Paper color font -->#000000|#FFFFFF
Or:
54 Paper color font -->#000000|http://www.YourName.com/SpecialWallpaper.gif
If you want to use the same font colors throughout the cart and even on the receipt pages then just leave this variable blank.

55 Disable all diagnostics for security reasons -->0
The Dansie Shopping Cart has some helpful diagnostic features. Such as:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?vars
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?env
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?path
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?lang
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?write_test
If you feel that allowing your cart script to display these environment variables and system paths could be a security risk for you, then set this variable to 1. To enable all diagnostics leave this variable at 0. If you ever email us because you need any help with your shopping cart make sure this is set to 0 so we can help you. We recommend leaving this set to 0 until you feel your web store is complete. When everything is working properly and you are ready to take your web store public, then set this to 1 if you like. Note: If your vars.dat file is missing from your cgi-bin or your cart.pl script can't find it, env, path and lang will still work.

56 Meta Tags --><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
If you are going to translate your lang.dat file into a foreign language and you need the Dansie Shopping Cart to use a special meta tag, set it here. If you don't have any clue what this is about, then just ignore this variable or leave it blank. Anything you insert in this variable will appear between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags of the carts pages. You can also put CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) tags here.

For Japanese, set this with:
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=shift_jis">

57 Email Content-Type -->text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2
If you are going to translate your lang.dat file into a foreign language and you need the Dansie Shopping Cart to use a special content type in the email, set it here. If you don't have any clue what this is about, then just ignore this variable or leave it blank.

You can put HTML tags in your lang.dat file to make radical changes to the appearance of the cart. If you are seeing a lot of HTML tags appearing in the email receipts, then set Personal Variable #57 to:
57 Email Content-Type -->text/html

If you have translated the lang.dat file to Japanese, set this to:
57 Email Content-Type -->text/plain; charset=x-sjis

58 Email Content-Transfer-Encoding -->8-bit
If you are going to translate your lang.dat file into a foreign language and you need the Dansie Shopping Cart to use special encoding in the email, set it here. If you don't have any clue what this is about, then just ignore this variable or leave it blank.

59 Allow Coupon/Gift Certificate Discount -->1
Activating this feature will allow your customers to enter a coupon or gift certificate number that will give them a discount. If you do not wish to use this feature, then set this variable to 0. Set this to 1 if you want to activate this feature. If you do not wish to have the Webstore Discount (PV#52) feature to be available in conjunction with this discount feature, then set this variable to 2. This way if a customer qualifies for the Webstore Discount and enters in a coupon or gift certificate number, they will only get the discount associated with this feature and not the Webstore Discount. How it works: Create a file named "discount.dat" and put it in the same directory as your vars.dat file. This file should look like so:

abc|10%
def|15%
123|10
456|50

If a customer enters in a coupon or gift certificate number that matches a string in one of the left fields, the customer will receive the discount in the corresponding right field. Use the "|" delimiter for this file. The gift certificate numbers can be anywhere from 1 to 10 characters long made up of numbers and/or letters. You may designate the values as either percentages or flat amounts. Example: If a customer enters in "abc" they will receive a 10% discount on their order. If a customer enters in "456" they will receive a $50 discount on their order. The discount will apply on the subtotal of their order but not on their sales tax and shipping. So they will still pay for any applicable sales tax and shipping. You may have as many coupon/gift certificate numbers and values as you wish in your "discount.dat" file. The numbers don't delete themselves from the discount.dat file after use. You will need to remove them when you want them removed.
The Dansie Shopping Cart has three discount features: Webstore Discount, Coupon Discount, and Volume Discount Pricing described in section 1C of the Template.html file.

If you have the cart set to use Webstore or Coupon discounts but you want certain items to always be full price and never be discounted, then use a tag like so:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom1" VALUE="#nodiscount#">
In order to reduce confusion for your customers it is highly recommended to include another custom description tag like this:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom2" VALUE="No discounts on this item.">

60 URL to Online Check Draft image instructions -->
If you don't have PV#42 set to the full URL to your ssl.pl script, then you can ignore this variable. If you do, then set this to the full URL of an image that may be visually helpful in filling out the Online Check Draft form. Example:
60 URL to Online Check Draft image instructions -->http://www.dansie.net/images/check.gif
If you are accessing your ssl.pl script in "https" mode then it's best to access this image via "https" as well.

61 Disable truncating of quantity numbers -->0
The Dansie Shopping Cart normally truncates all quantity numbers if your customers try to type something in like "2.5" into the quantity box. However, if you would like to disable this feature, set this variable to 1. If you would like to remove the ability of your shoppers to change the quantity of their items after they place them in the basket, then set this variable to 2. The "Change" button will not be displayed then.

62 Auxiliary payment option -->
A sixth payment option. This is related to #24, #25, #26, #42 and #45. If you don't need a sixth payment option, then leave this variable blank. If you do, then type in some text here like so:
62 Auxiliary payment option -->Free on the house
lang.dat variable #83 will allow you to put some customized text on the receipt page related to this payment option.

63 Suppress custom descriptions -->0
You can set this variable to 0, 1, 2 or 3. Above it's shown being set to 0.

64 Add items to top or bottom of cart contents? -->top
After clicking on submit buttons in your HTML product forms, the item gets sent to the cart.pl script and appears on the "Your shopping cart contents:" page. You can have the Dansie Shopping Cart add your new items to either the top or the bottom of that list. Adding to the top is recommended as the shopper can quickly see their new item in their basket. If you have the cart add the new item to the bottom, they may need to scroll down to see it. You can set this variable to either "top" or "bottom".

65 Shopper ID Prefix -->
Most likely you will want to leave this variable blank. However, if you would like to append something to the beginning of your shopper ID numbers like a letter or two, then set that here. For example if a customer's shopper ID number would be 101, but you set this variable like so:
65 Shopper ID Prefix -->A
Then the customer's shopper ID number will appear like so: A101

66 Authorized HTTP_REFERER domains -->
This variable is a security device that allows you to control which domains your script will accept POSTs from when shoppers are adding items to their shopping basket. It will prevent people from saving your web pages to their computer, changing the prices in your HTML forms and submitting it from their computer. You may set it like so:
66 Authorized HTTP_REFERER URLs -->www.YourName.com,222.22.22.22
Put domain names or IP address here, but not URLs. Do not put "http://" in this variable. Do not put page names. Do not put URLs. Just domains or IP address as you see in the example above, separated by commas. The cart.pl script will compare the environment variable HTTP_REFERER with the domains you list here. If there is no match, then the item will not be added to the customers shopping cart basket. You may set as many authorized domains in this variable as you like separated by commas. If you don't wish to use this feature, you may leave this variable blank. If you are testing your HTML forms on your own computer, it is recommended to leave this variable blank or the items will never get added to your basket. If you have problems getting items to be added to your basket while using this feature, then leave this variable blank.

If one of your shoppers can't seem to add an item to their basket and they get a PV#66 security message, but it works fine for you or anyone else, it could be that the shopper is behind a firewall.

67 Display "Empty Entire Cart" Button -->0
If you set this variable to 1 then a button will appear in the main Shopping Cart Contents page that will allow your shoppers to empty their entire cart by clicking one button. lang.dat variables related to this variable are #87, 88 and 89. If you do not wish to allow this option, then leave this variable blank or set to 0.

68 Minimum Order -->
If you set this variable to 100 then the Dansie Shopping Cart wont let anyone place an order unless their subtotal is $100 or higher. You can set it to any number you like. If you don't wish to use this feature then leave this variable blank. If you use this feature make sure that lang.dat #18 has something like this in it:

18 -->Mimimum Order:<BR>To place an order, the subtotal must be a minimum of:

69 Order Tracking -->
The Dansie Shopping Cart can append summary information of every order to a pipe delimited "|" file called "tracking.dat". This info may be used for many purposes. You may create a program that will interpret and display this info for you. The fields of info that the cart appends are as follows:

1. Shopper ID number (coupon codes will appear here too separated by a dash "-" if used.)
2. Customer name and company name
3. Email address
4. Phone number
5. Order total (including shipping and sales tax)
6. Shipping charges
7. Shipping method
8. Products ordered (comma delimited) and custom descriptions of each item (:: delimited). The quantity of each item will also appear in parenthesis.
9. Date
10. Sales tax
11. Shipping Address
12. City
13. State
14. Zip
15. Country
16. The payment method chosen by your customer
17. Billing name and billing company name
18. Billing address
19. Billing city
20. Billing state
21. Billing zip
22. Billing country
23. Billing phone number
24. Billing email

To utilize this feature, create an empty file called "tracking.dat", upload it to the directory you want and make sure it is writable. Then set the system path to the tracking.dat file in this variable like so:
69 Order Tracking -->/path/to/cgi-bin/tracking.dat
Not sure what your system path is? Go here:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?path
Do NOT set a URL in PV#69. Set the system path.
This ReadMe will speak of "URLs" and "system paths". URL stand for Uniform Resource Locator. It is a website address that starts with "http" and is accessed via a web browser. A system path is a local path to a file on your hosts machine. Perl accesses files on your host's machine with system paths. System paths on Unix hosts start with a slash "/". System paths on Windows NT hosts start with a drive letter and a colon like so: "c:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/tracking.dat"
Try to keep this in mind and not get the two confused.

Storing credit card numbers in flat-file database format:
Near the top of the ssl.pl script, if you set the $ssl_tracking_dir variable with a system path, then the ssl.pl script will record credit card info in a flat-file database format there. Example:
$ssl_tracking_dir = "/secure/host/path/to/cgi-bin/tracking.dat";
Make sure you make this file first and set write permissions on it.
Please note that billing address info is not collected or recorded when using the Check or Money Order or COD payment options.

70 Collect Company Name in shipping and billing -->1
If you set this variable to 1 the Dansie Shopping Cart will collect your customers company name on the shipping and billing address page. If you set it to 0, then a text field that prompts for this info will not appear. Make sure that you have something like this in lang.dat #90:
90 -->Company Name:
Also, this field can be made to appear but not required. Or appear and be required. See PV#47 for details.

71 Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->
This is a 7th payment option. Other payment options are #24, #25, #26, #42, #45, #62 and #81. The Dansie Shopping Cart currently works with many different real-time credit card processors as you can see in section 11 of this ReadMe. This payment option allows you to have the cart work with more than one real-time credit card processor. How to activate this payment option:

If you need to set "Success" and "Failure" return URLs in your processors account, set them like so:
Success: http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?aux_processorSSV#6
Failure: http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?failure

Change SSV#6 above to what you have in SSV#6.

72 Email Receipt Tables -->15|26|4|10|10
This variable allows you to change the way the email receipts look, making them more compact in a table type format. To use this feature, tell the cart program the width you want each column. The columns are respectively:

The above settings are recommended for the column widths. You may set a column width to 0 (zero) and it will disable that column in the email receipts. Make sure you have lang variables #156 and #157 set in your lang.dat file. Customize them as you like. If you do not wish to use this feature, leave this variable blank. If you use a lot of HTML in your lang.dat file and your email receipts don't look right, then it's recommended to leave this variable blank.

73 Show shipping weight total on receipt pages -->1
If you have the cart calculating shipping by the weight of the items and you have PV#27 set to 1, then you can also have the cart display the total weight of all the items near the sub total on receipt pages. Just set this variable to 1 to turn it on. If you do not wish to use this feature, leave this variable blank.

74 States -->Alabama,Alaska,Arizona,etc...
If this variable is set, then a pull-down SELECT menu will appear to collect the state on the carts page that collects the shipping/billing address. If you leave this variable blank, a TEXT field will appear where your shoppers can type in their state. You can enter as many states here as you like separated by commas. They will appear in the order you list them here. One neat feature, is if you spell your state(s) in PV#13 exactly as you spell them here, then if a shopper selects that they live within a sales taxable area, the cart will display the correct state as selected instead of the first state you list here. The default list of states that comes with the vars.dat file can be modified to include Canadian provinces etc. Customize the list however you like.

75 Countries -->USA,European Economic Community,Albania,Algeria,etc...
If this variable is set, then a pull-down SELECT menu will appear to collect the country on the carts page that collects the shipping/billing address. If you leave this variable blank, a TEXT field will appear where your shoppers can type in their country. You can enter as many countries here as you like separated by commas. They will appear in the order you list them here. The default list of countries that comes with the vars.dat file can be modified to include more or fewer countries. Customize the list however you like.

76 Sales tax state verification -->1
If you set this to "1", it will activate the cart's sales tax state verification. This will do two things:

It is highly recommended to use this feature in conjunction with PV#74. If you activate this feature, but don't have PV#74 activated, then this feature may not work in all cases such as if a shopper misspells their state. PV#43 needs to be activated or this feature wont work at all.

77 System path to .htpasswd file -->
This variable has been made obsolete as you can now define a system path to numerous .htpasswd files for each product download you have listed in the passwords.dat file. See the Sell Passwords feature for details.

78 Refuse email addresses -->
You can tell the cart to refuse to accept orders with email addresses from domains or domain extensions that pose a security risk to your online business. Such as email addresses from anonymous email accounts or from foreign countries. Example:
78 Refuse email addresses -->.ru,hotmail.com,jack@bigfoot.com
In the above example, the cart wouldn't accept an order from anyone

So you may define just a domain extension, a domain, or a complete email address. Adjust lang.dat variables #162 and #163 to best convey the language you would like the cart to use when a shopper attempts to use an email address domain that you have set the cart to refuse.

79 Referral ID -->
Sign up with the Dansie Shopping Cart Referral Program and earn free Dansie Shopping Cart software licenses with referred sales. Set this variable with your referral ID like so:
79 Referral ID -->domain.com
The cart.pl script will then automatically change the text link at the bottom of the pages generated by the cart.pl script to include your referral ID.

80 Pending Order Tracking -->
The Dansie Shopping Cart can append summary information of every order to a pipe delimited "|" file called "tracking.dat". See details on this in PV#69. However, if you are using a credit card processor (PV#24), this info may not get recorded if a shopper's browser doesn't return from a credit card processor's website. PV#80 can preemptively record this information for you BEFORE the cart sends the shopper to the credit card processor's website. This info may be used for many purposes. You may create a program that will interpret and display this info for you. The fields of info that the cart appends are as follows:

1. Shopper ID number (coupon codes will appear here too separated by a dash "-" if used.)
2. Customer name and company name
3. Email address
4. Phone number
5. Order total (including shipping and sales tax)
6. Shipping charges
7. Shipping method
8. Products ordered (comma delimited) and custom descriptions of each item (:: delimited). The quantity of each item will also appear in parenthesis.
9. Date
10. Sales tax
11. Shipping Address
12. City
13. State
14. Zip
15. Country
16. The payment method chosen by your customer
17. Billing name
18. Billing address
19. Billing city
20. Billing state
21. Billing zip
22. Billing country
23. Billing phone number
24. Billing email

To utilize this feature, create an empty file called "pending.dat", upload it to the directory you want and make sure it is writable. Then set the system path to the pending.dat file in this variable like so:
80 Pending Order Tracking -->/path/to/cgi-bin/pending.dat
Not sure what your system path is? Go here:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?path
Do NOT set a URL in PV#80. Set the system path.
This ReadMe will speak of "URLs" and "system paths". URL stand for Uniform Resource Locator. It is a website address that starts with "http" and is accessed via a web browser. A system path is a local path to a file on your hosts machine. Perl accesses files on your host's machine with system paths. System paths on Unix hosts start with a slash "/". System paths on Windows NT hosts start with a drive letter and a colon like so: "c:/home/YourName/cgi-bin/pending.dat"
Try to keep this in mind and not get the two confused.

81 Second Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->
This is an 8th payment option. Other payment options are #24, #25, #26, #42, #45, #62 and #71 . The Dansie Shopping Cart currently works with many different real-time credit card processors as you can see in section 11 of this ReadMe. This payment option allows you to have the cart work simultaneously with a third real-time credit card processor. How to activate this payment option:

If you need to set "Success" and "Failure" return URLs in your processors account, set them like so:
Success: http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?aux_processor2SSV#6
Failure: http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?failure

Change SSV#6 above to what you have in SSV#6.

82 Suppress shipping/billing address in customers email receipts -->
If you set this variable with a "1" the customers shipping and billing address will not be emailed back to them in their email receipt. The merchant will always get a copy in their email receipt. If you set this to "0" or leave it blank, customers shipping and billing address will be echoed back to them in their email receipt.

83 Collect only billing address for credit card payments -->
Due to concern of possible credit card misuse, some merchants want to ship only to the credit cards billing address. Normally the cart will collect both a shipping and a billing address which allows your customers to enter both their credit card billing address and the shipping address of a loved one. If you set this variable with a "1" the cart will only collect ONE name and address from shoppers when they select a credit card payment option. This compels your shoppers to have the items shipped to the same address as their credit card billing address. If you set this variable to 0 (zero) or leave it blank, the cart will collect both a shipping and billing address from your shoppers. See also lang.dat #172 and customize as you desire. Note that although the cart will only prompt and collect your shopper's credit card billing address if this feature is activated, they could try to change the billing address in the fields while on a real-time credit card processor's website. So always compare and confirm the shipping address is the same

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§10 HOW SHIPPING IS CALCULATED:

1. By the total weight of all the items. You define the weight of each item. Set Personal Variable #27 to "1" for this method.
2. A flat fee per item. Example:
   <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=sh VALUE="3.50">
   Set Personal Variable #27 to "1" for this method. Set PV#30 and PV#31 to something like "1,1.5,2".
3. Based upon flat rates at various increments of the subtotal. See Personal Variables #34 and #35. Set Personal Variable #27 to "2" for this method.
4. Based upon percentages at various increments of the subtotal. See Personal Variables #34 and #35. Set Personal Variable #27 to "2" for this method.
5. Custom Database Shipping Tables. If your shipping company doesn't have consistent prices for each additional pound, then this is for you.
6. No shipping. You can turn off all shipping calculations in the cart and just say, "Shipping Included" somewhere on your website.

SHIPPING TYPE ONE: By the pound/kilo/unit:
(When var #27 above is set to 1)

Shipping for an item will be calculated according to the sh VALUE in the forms of your HTML pages. Example:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=sh VALUE="1"> (See Template.html)
Or by the value of the shipping field in your flat-file databases. The script will multiply the sh VALUE times the value of #31 above to determine shipping for that item. If your item is heavier, set the sh VALUE to 2,3 or 10. The denomination of the sh VALUE can be pounds, kilograms, or just hypothetical units. This denomination should be defined by #32 above. #32 will be displayed in your script if (#28) is set to 1 and also it is displayed in the email receipts that the script sends to you after orders have been placed.

Note: The first pound/kilo of the first item will not get the value of #31 but rather the value of #30. This insures that you wont charge someone 50 cents for shipping a one pound item but have to pay $5.95 yourself. Also, if your customer orders only one or two items that weigh less than one pound, the cart will charge them for a full pound. It will charge a minimum of one pound.

An example of setting up shipping by the pound/kilo/unit:

Let say that you decide that each unit (#32) is one pound and you set #32 to "lbs". You call some shipping companies and get current prices as to how much they charge for the first pound and each additional pound. Set #30 to the price for the first pound. If five day ground mail is 5.95 and 2 day air is 8.95 and overnight is 18.95, then set #30 to: (5.95,8.95,18.95); Set #31 the same way except how much you want to charge for each additional pound. eg,(.50,.75,.85);. If an item weighs 1 pound then you will put
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=sh VALUE="1">
in the HTML form in the page where it is sold. If an item weighs 2 pounds then you will put
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=sh VALUE="2">
in the HTML form in the page where it is sold. The shopping cart will multiply the sh value, times the quantity of that item purchased, times #31 (according to shipping method chosen). Then it will substitute one of the regular price values for the #30 values. Therefore:
shipping = (Initial unit cost) + ( (units-1) x price per additional unit)
OR, another way to look at it is:
shipping = (first pound price) + ( (pounds-1) x price per additional pound)

SHIPPING TYPE TWO: Flat fee per item:
(When var #27 above is set to 1)

If you want to charge just a flat shipping fee for each item, in terms of dollars (lets say $4.00), then put this in your form:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=sh VALUE="4.00">
(Or put "4.00" in the appropriate field in your database if using them.)
and set both #30 and #31 to something like this: (1,1.5,2). This way your cheapest form of shipping will be $4.00, your next shipping method would be $6.00 (4 x 1.5) and your most expensive shipping method would be $8.00 (4 x 2).

Remember, you can provide as many shipping locations as you wish and to as many states and countries as as you like. All you have to do is put more locations (or speeds such as "overnight") in #29, and more values in #30 and #31.

SHIPPING TYPE THREE: Scaled according to the subtotal with flat rates at various increments:
(When var #27 above is set to 2)

This is an easier way to set up your shipping charges, but not as accurate as by the pound/kilo. If you use this method, you will not have to use the "sh" hidden input tags in your HTML forms. Example:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="sh" VALUE="1">
(Wont be necessary in your forms.)

Example:
$5 shipping for orders totaling $100 or less.
$10 shipping for orders totaling $200 or less.
$50 shipping totaling $1000 or less.
Over $1000, free shipping.

Read PERSONAL VARIABLE #34 and #35 above for details about how to use this shipping method.

If you don't want shipping considered on some particular items, then use a tag like so in your HTML forms:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="custom1" VALUE="#noshipping#">

SHIPPING TYPE FOUR: Scaled according to the subtotal with percentage rates at various increments:
(When var #27 above is set to 2)

This is an easier way to set up your shipping charges, but not as accurate as by the pound/kilo. If you use this method, you will not have to use the "sh" hidden input tags in your HTML forms. Example:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="sh" VALUE="1">
(Wont be necessary in your forms.)

Example:
5% shipping for orders totaling $100 or less.
4% shipping for orders totaling $200 or less.
3% shipping totaling $1000 or less.
2% shipping totaling $1000000 or less.
Free shipping when subtotal is over $1000000.
You customize the increments and charges of course.
Read PERSONAL VARIABLE #34 and #35 above for details about how to use this shipping method.

SHIPPING TYPE FIVE: Custom Database Shipping Tables:
(When var #27 above is set to 1)

This method may be used in combination with Shipping Type One and Shipping Type Two. Say you have a shipping company that has an unusual pattern for each additional pound when shipping to Australia. You could set PV#29 like so:
29 Shipping methods -->Standard UPS,2 day UPS,Next day UPS,Europe,Australia
Then you could set PV#30 and #31 like so:
30 Initial shipping cost of first pound -->5.95,8.95,18.95,15.00,shipping.dat
31 Shipping cost for each additional pound -->.50,.50,.50,2,shipping.dat
Notice the fifth field separated by commas in PV#30 and #31 has "shipping.dat" in there instead of a numeric value. This tells the Dansie Shopping Cart to look for this plain text database file in the same directory that your vars.dat file is in. This "shipping.dat" file could look like so:

1|20
2|25
3|31
4|32
5|38
6|39
7|50

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§11 SECURE SERVER VARIABLES:

The Dansie Shopping Cart can either:

Compatible Real-Time Processors:

COMPATIBILITY NOTICE: The Dansie Shopping Cart is compatible with each of the real-time credit card processors listed in this section concerning basic credit card processing. The cart will POST the full total, shopper ID, customers name and billing address to the credit card processor's website for processing. The cart.pl script will issue the shopper a web page receipt if your credit card processing account is properly configured to return the shopper back to the "Return URL" after a credit card is approved. The cart does NOT work with any other services of the processors listed in this ReadMe except as specifically stated, such as, recurring billing, book transactions, authorize only transactions, etc.

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY NOTICE: In the past some online real-time credit/debit card processors have made NON-backwards compatible changes to the way their system works which caused the Dansie Shopping Cart (and other shopping cart softwares) to no longer be able to work with them. We recommend that you inquire of your processor if they intend to remain backwards compatible and encourage them to do so. Dansie Website Design will not be responsible for loss of compatibility if your processor should make some non-backwards compatible changes. If this occurs, let us know and we can try to adjust the Dansie Shopping Cart to keep up with their non-backwards compatible changes. In some cases where the processors changes were too radical, we had to remove them from our list of compatible processors below.

DUAL EMAIL RECEIPT NOTICE: The cart.pl script will email you a copy of the order details concerning the names and prices of the items that your shoppers order. The cart will pass the full total, shopper ID, customers name and billing address to the credit card processor for processing. The cart does NOT pass the details of the items your shoppers are ordering to the credit card processors. You will receive 2 emails for each credit card order. One from the cart.pl script with the order details, and a second email from your credit card processor confirming that your customer's credit card was approved. The cart inserts the shopper ID in the subject of the email for easy matching with the email receipt from the credit card processor. See Personal Variable #2 and Secure Server Variable #13 in this ReadMe for how to tell the cart which email address(es) to email the order details to.

1. 2checkout.com
2. arvicsecure.com
3. AuthorizeNet
4. Bank of America eStores
5. Cambist
6. Cardservice International and Clear Commerce
7. CubeCard
8. eProcessingNetwork (Controlled Devices)
9. eWAY
10. gochargeit.com
11. GORealtime E-Commerce Transaction Processing
12. InternetSecure
13. iTransact
14. NetBanx.com
15. PayPal
16. PayReady.net
17. PSiGate
18. SECPay
19. SecureHosting.com
20. SecurePay.com
21. securetrading.com
22. signio.com
23. Skipjack
24. Verisign
25. WorldPay

Cambist

Cambist is a real-time credit card processor and secure server. http://www.cambist.com. If using Cambist as your secure server, set all variables in this section as instructed except for SSV#10.

1. Set Secure Server Variable #1 to:
   https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll
   For QuickCommerce accounts, set SSV#1 to:
   https://secure.quickcommerce.net/gateway/transact.dll
   For TRANSACT-SECURETM posting set SSV#1 to:
   https://verify.ishopsecure.com/authorizenet/cgi_bin/verify.cgi
   For richsolutions.com, set SSV#1 to:
   https://www.richsolutions.com/Pay/WebLink.aspx
   For the other clones, set SSV#1 to the transaction posting URL they provide you.
2. Set SSV#2 with your AuthorizeNet or clone Login ID.
3. AuthorizeNet accounts login here: https://secure.authorize.net
   QuickCommerce accounts login here: https://secure.quickcommerce.net
   Or login to your clone processor.
   1. Click on "Settings".
   2. Select "Manage URLs" and click "GO".
   3. Click "Add URL".
   4. Enter the URL that you have in Host Variable #1 in the designated field. Example:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl
   5. Then check mark "Add To List Of Valid Referrers".
   6. Click "Submit URL".
   7. Enter your Return Link URL in the designated field.
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?SSV#6
      This URL needs to be exactly what you have in HV#1 plus a question mark, plus what you have in SSV#6.
      The SSV#6 at the end of the URL above is what you define in variable SSV#6 below.
   8. Checkmark "Add To List Of Valid ADC / Receipt Link URLs"
   9. If the Dansie Shopping Cart is your ONLY business using AuthorizeNet as your credit card service, set the cart as "Receipt Link Default URL."
   10. IMPORTANT NOTE If you use more than one shopping cart program or use your AuthorizeNet account for more than one online business venture (besides the Dansie Shopping Cart) - select "Not A Default URL". Using the Dansie Shopping Cart will not effect your other Default URL or any other URL's that might be existing or set already.
   11. Last, click the "Submit URL" button.
4. Special feature: If you would like transactions to be "authorization only" then set SSV#9 with "AO" (without the quotes). Example:
   9 -->AO
5. Mall Version note: Set your Return Link URL like so:
   http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?SSV#6|merchant|MerchantName
   Change SSV#6 to what you have in SSV#6 and "MerchantName" to what the merchant's name is.

Make sure your AuthorizeNet account is in TEST mode when testing it. Click on "Settings". Then select "General Merchant Settings" and click the "GO" button. Select "Test Mode", then click the "Submit" button. Test credit card number with AuthorizeNet: 5419840000000003

Note that the AuthorizeNet web page receipt will flash briefly and then automatically refresh the shopper's browser over to the cart's receipt page. That is normal. This will ensure that the shopper's browser returns to the cart to trigger the email receipts with the order details and shipping address.

eProcessingNetwork (Controlled Devices)

eProcessingNetwork (Controlled Devices) is a real-time credit card processor and secure server. http://www.eProcessingNetwork.Com http://www.ctrldvcs.com

1. Set Secure Server Variable #1 with:
   https://payflowlink.verisign.com/payflowlink.cfm
   Old Signio accounts would use:
   https://payflowlink.signio.com/paylinks.dll
2. Put your Verisign login ID in Secure Server Variable #2.
3. The "PARTNER" ID is required for all new Verisign accounts as of Feb 15th 2001. Set your partner ID in SSV#9 like so:
   -->partner=PartnerName
4. Login to your VeriSign Manager utility and set your Return Link URL.
   Logon to https://manager.verisign.com click on account info/payflow link info/look in form config section (first section of edit config screen). Set the Return Link URL like so:
   http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?SSV#6
   The SSV#6 in the URL above is what you define in variable SSV#6 below.

   If you are using the Dansie Shopping Cart Mall Version, set your Return Link URL like so:
   http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?SSV#6|merchant|MerchantName
   Change SSV#6 to what you have in SSV#6 and "MerchantName" to what the merchant's name is.

5. Set the "Return URL Method" in your Signio account to LINK instead of POST.

Details on all the Secure Server Variables:

1 URL to ssl.pl or real-time processor -->https://cambist.com/cgi-bin/icvtest.pl
Enter here the URL to your real-time credit card processor or the URL to your ssl.pl script. If you are using the ssl.pl script and you would like to have the URL start with "https" you will need to contact your web host about using a security certificate.

2 Your credit card processor username/login ID -->0001
Place your merchant ID with your real-time credit card processor here. Test ID with Cambist is 0001. Use the test ID until you get your real one. If you are using the ssl.pl script, just ignore this variable.

3 Font face -->Times New Roman
This variable only works with Cambist or the ssl.pl script. What font face do you want to be used on the secure page.

4 Font color -->#000000
This variable only works with Cambist or the ssl.pl script. What font color do you want to be used on the secure page.

5 Bgrd color -->#FFFFCC
This variable only works with Cambist or the ssl.pl script. What background color do you want to be used on the secure page. If you are using the ssl.pl script you may use wallpaper if it is local to the ssl.pl script by setting this as the full URL to your wallpaper image. Example:
https://secure.server.com/wp.jpg
Must be called via "https" otherwise the SSL wont let any images through.

6 Unique, Random ID (1-12 characters, alpha/numeric, no spaces) -->1212abc
Change this to a string that uses only letters and numbers and NO S P A C E S. This will create a unique code so the cart.pl script will know when a credit card transaction has occurred. This string could be anywhere from 1 to 12 characters in size. Be creative like "kd93DJE39" or "skDI39fC". Do NOT put one of your passwords in here. This is just random sequence of letters and numbers.

7 Post Transaction Message -->Your order will be shipped pending credit card approval.
This will be printed at the top of the page immediately after a customer makes a purchase via Secure Online Credit Card Transaction. If you are using a secure server such as Cambist that not only encrypts the numbers, but also transfers funds, you will want to say something like, "Your credit card transaction was successful." If you are using your own security certificate (not a real-time processor), and funds are not transferred immediately, you may want to say something like, "Your order will be shipped pending credit card approval."

8 System path to append orders to a data file? -->
If you would like the orders appended to a data file, then set this to the system path and name of a data file you want them appended to. You can then retrieve the orders with your FTP program. Example:
8 Email orders or append to a data file? -->/cart/host/path/to/orders.dat
If you are using the ssl.pl script and it's located on a different host than your cart.pl script, then you will need to define this like so:
8 Email orders or append to a data file? -->/ssl/secure/host/path/to/orders.dat|/cart/host/path/to/orders.dat
First put the system path on the secure server, followed by the "|" character, then the path to a data file on the host where your cart.pl script is located. (ssl.pl version 2.09+)
If you would like the ssl.pl script to record the credit card data to data files, but you don't want the cart.pl script to record the order details to data files, then set SSV#8 like so:
8 Email orders or append to a data file? -->/ssl/secure/host/path/to/orders.dat|off
Notice the "off" on the right side of the "|" pipe delimiter.

As an option, instead of having the orders appended to one file, they can be created in multiple files like so: orders1.dat, orders2.dat, orders3.dat. Where each new order placed will create a new file. The number following "orders" will be the customers shopper ID number. To utilize this feature, specify a system path in SSV#8 to a directory rather than a system path to a file. Example:
8 Email orders or append to a data file? -->/cart/host/path/to/orders
Make sure you create this directory and that permissions on it are set as writable (777 on Unix).

System Path to "orders.dat"
You can get your system paths like so:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?path
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?env
https://YourSecureHost.com/cgi-bin/ssl.pl?path
https://YourSecureHost.com/cgi-bin/ssl.pl?env
Make sure PV#55 is set to 0.

Making sure "orders.dat" is writable
If the directories where you want orders.dat appended to are not writable, then you will need to create an empty file manually on your computer ("orders.dat"), upload it to the directory where you want it and chmod it 777 so it will be writable. Otherwise the scripts wont be able to write to your "orders.dat" file and you will be wondering why it's not appending.

Emailing orders and appending

If you have SSV#8 and SSV#11 blank, yet you are using the ssl.pl script, the credit card numbers will be emailed to the first email address you have listed in PV#2. The other email addresses listed in PV#2 will get a copy of the order details, but not the email with the credit card number in it.

9 ssl.pl accepts these card types -->visa,mastercard,amex,novus,dinersclub,carteblanche,delta,switch,solo,visadebit, barclaysconnect
Tell your ssl.pl script which card types to accept and which not to accept. Current card types it can accept are the ones you see listed above. Spell them exactly as you see listed here. The ssl.pl script currently does some error checking to make sure that the credit card number appears valid with the first four card types listed here. However, with the last seven card types, there is no error checking. If you would like the ssl.pl script to accept some rare credit cards, near the top of the ssl.pl script you can set "lang" variable #18 and #19 to the card name and then put "dinersclub" or "carteblanche" in SSV#9 to activate it. Flexible huh?

You may also find that this variable is sometimes utilized to pass special information to some of the real-time processors listed in section 11 of the ReadMe. In those cases, this variable will have nothing to do with the card types that your real-time processor accepts. SSV#9 is used to pass special information to another script that collects credit card info. Whether that script be a real-time processor or the ssl.pl script is not important. This variable was first designed to pass special info to the ssl.pl script. When other credit card processors required a few pieces of extra information, we enabled this variable to be used to pass extra information to credit card processors as well.

10 PGP PgpProg|PgpTempDir|PgpUserId|Version -->
The Dansie Shopping Cart now works with PGP 2.6.2, 2.6.3ia, 5.0, 6.5.2 and gpg1.0 and gpg1.0.6 on both Unix and Windows NT hosts. Some PGP sites:
http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html
http://www.pgpi.org/

You may have the ssl.pl script work with PGP to encrypt the credit card numbers before they are emailed to you.

NOTICE: It is NOT our responsibility to install and configure PGP on your website. We provide the PGP test script so you can isolate and confirm that PGP is working and properly configured before attempting to get the ssl.pl script to work with PGP. If you cannot get PGP to work with this small test script, then do not attempt to get PGP to work with the ssl.pl script. We guarantee that the ssl.pl script will work with the versions of PGP listed above only AFTER you have first confirmed and demonstrated that PGP is properly installed and configured by the use of the PGP test script. You may even download and utilize this PGP test script prior to purchasing a Dansie Shopping Cart software license.

First, set the cart aside, download and use this test script to confirm that PGP/GPG is working.

After you have confirmed that PGP is working, set four pieces of information in Secure Server Variable #10 (all separated by the "|" symbol).

You may need to set the $ENV{'PGPPATH'} or $ENV{'GNUPGHOME'} variable near the top of the ssl.pl script.

Windows NT example:
10 PGP PgpProg|PgpTempDir|PgpUserId|Version -->d:\pgppath\pgp.exe|c:/temp|yourname@host.com|2.6.2
Unix example:
10 PGP PgpProg|PgpTempDir|PgpUserId|Version -->/bin/pgpe|/|Smith|5.0

Put exactly "2.6.2", "2.6.3ia", "5.0", "6.5.2", "gpg1.0" or "gpg1.0.6" (if you use GPG) in the fourth field. Nothing else. Make sure your PGP config file is set correctly too.

If you have Secure Server Variable #8 set to a system path so as to have the credit card numbers appended to a datafile and you have this variable set too, then the credit card numbers will be appended to the datafile in an encrypted manner. If SSV#8 is blank, then the credit card numbers will be emailed to the email addresses set in SSV#11. If SSV#11 is blank, then the credit card info will be emailed to the first email address in Personal Variable #2.
Works on Unix hosts with standard sendmail and on Windows NT running either Windmail or Blat as the sendmail program.

11 Credit card numbers are emailed here -->
If you are using the ssl.pl script, this is where you put your email address. When someone orders something via Secure Online Credit Card Transaction, the ssl.pl script can email their credit card number to you. If you leave this variable blank and SSV#8 is blank too, then the credit card numbers will be emailed to the first email address you have in PV#2. If you leave this variable blank and SSV#8 is set, then the credit card numbers wont be emailed to you. Only appended to a datafile. Need to send copies of the order to more than one address? Just set this variable like so:

sales@YourName.net, orders@YourName.net

Separated by either commas, spaces or both.

12 Remain in frames while in SSL -->0
When the cart.pl script passes the customer to the ssl.pl script or a real-time credit card processor, it will remove all frames if your site is a framed website. This is to effectuate the SSL lock at the top of the browser. If you have a framed website and wish to remain in frames while collecting your customers credit card info, then set this variable to 1. Otherwise set it to 0 or leave it blank.

13 Pending Order Notice -->your@email.com
If a shopper places an order via Secure Online Credit Card Transaction, the cart will email the order details to the email address(es) that you have set in Personal Variable #2. However, sometimes for some reason or another, the shoppers browser doesn't always make it back to the cart.pl script after their credit card is approved. If you set an email address in this variable then you will receive a copy of what they ordered BEFORE they go to the credit card processor to submit their number. So just in case their browser gets hung up at the real-time processors site, you will still have a copy of the order details. Make sure you have some language like so in the following lang.dat variables:
152 -->Pending Order Notice
153 -->This is a Pending Order Notice. The customer has not submitted their credit card number yet. Wait for order confirmation from the credit card processor.

Never rely upon a receipt from the cart as proof that a customers credit card has been approved. It's merely a list of items with a grand total and a shipping address. Always check with your processor or merchant account to see if a customers card has been approved.

14 "https" URL to company logo for ssl.pl script -->
You may set this variable to an "https" URL to your company logo if you are using the ssl.pl script. If your ssl.pl script is being ran via "https" and you set the URL in this variable with only "http" your browser may give you a security warning message that not all information is secure. The information it's referring to is your logo which is being called via "http". So make sure this URL is "https" and that you have a site security certificate for the website in which this logo is hosted. The cart.pl script will pass this URL to the ssl.pl script so your "https" logo will appear on the ssl.pl script's page. This feature works with cart.pl version 3.25+ and ssl.pl version 3.04+. To set the URL to your company logo for appearance at the top of the cart.pl script's pages, see Host Variable #4.

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§12 DATABASE VARIABLES:

You only need to assign these if you are using flat-file databases with the Dansie Shopping Cart, or if you want to start using some flat-file databases.

The advantages of flat-file databases is that they allow you to update prices, and keep track of your products from simple data files, rather than editing the forms in your HTML documents. Also, you can take advantage of Dansie Shopping Cart's database search engine. (See section 4 in Template.html for details.) Some disadvantages, though, are that your product pages will look a little more cookie cut with a flat-file database than they do if you use HTML forms.

We have provided a sample, ready-to-go database so you can see how easy they are to work with. Just upload the stuff.dat file that came in the zip package to the same directory that your vars.dat file is in. Then point your browser here:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?db=stuff.dat

1 System path to location of database files -->
System path to the directory that keeps your database files. The default location that the cart.pl script will look for your database files is in the same directory that your vars.dat file is in. You will only need to set this variable if you want to change it's default location. If you leave this variable blank, it will default to the same system path that your vars.dat file is in. This is the directory that you give the cart.pl script permission to read database files from. So for security reasons it's suggested to set it to a different directory that you don't have anything in except your database files. Example:
-->/system/path/to/cgi-bin/databases
You could make a subdirectory inside your cgi-bin called "databases" and put all your database files there like "stuff.dat". How do you know what your system path is? Use the cart's ?path diagnostic feature.

2 Full URL of the image of the Dansie Shopping Cart -->http://www.YourName.net/cart.gif
Full URL of the "View Shopping Cart" or "Checkout" image in which your customer will click in order to view their cart contents.

3 Flat-file database field delimiter -->|
This variable will hold the character that is used to separate the fields in your database. If your database looks like this:
Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|$10.00|1||
then set the separator like you see above. If your databases look like this:
Books:0002:The Boy Scout Handbook:Author, Bill Hillcourt:$10.00:1::
then set the separator like so:
3 Flat-file databases delimiter -->:
You may use the TAB character for your delimiter too like so:
3 Flat-file databases delimiter -->tab


4 Flat-file databases options delimiter -->^
This variable will hold the character that is used to separate the options in the fields of the lines of your database. If your options fields look like this:
OPTIONS^Paperback $15.00^Hard Cover $20.00
then set the options separator like you see above. If your databases look like this:
OPTIONS:Paperback $15.00:Hard Cover $20.00
then set the options separator like so:
4 Flat-file databases options delimiter -->:
Remember, the options separator and the field separator must be different from each other, and these two characters must not be used anywhere else in your database.

5 Alignment of four columns in database displays -->center|center|left|center
The Dansie Shopping Cart has up to four columns that you can activate in your database displays. They are in order, Item, Image, Description and Price. You can turn them on with DBV#8, 9, 10 and 12. If you have all four columns turned on, then you can control the alignment of text inside them like so:
-->center|center|left|right
If, for example, you aren't using the thumbnail column, then you will need to set this variable like so:
-->center||left|center
Values you can define are left, right and center.

6 Position of category in your data files -->1
You need to tell the script what position your fields are in within your current database files. If your category fields are positioned at the beginning of each line, then set this to 1. If your databases do not use categories, then set this to 0. In the stuff.dat file the categories are in field position #1 so we set this variable with a 1.

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

8 Position of the name of the item -->3

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

9 Position of description of the item -->4

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

11 Position of the shipping weight/value of the item -->6

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

12 Position of the name of the thumb-nail image of the item -->7

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg

Or tell it where a larger image is to link to as well using the double colon sub-delimiter "::":
||||||http://www.dansie.net/images/purse.jpg::purse_large.jpg|||||| When the thumbnail image in the database display is clicked on, it will show the shopper the larger image. See more details here.

13 Positions of additional fields of info -->8,9,10,11,12,13
Use this to designate in what fields positions your OPTIONS (explained further below) are located. Also, use this if your flat-file database contains any additional descriptive fields of information that you would want carried over to the shopping cart. State their positions. You may include as many as you need.

Books|0002|The Boy Scout Handbook|Author: Bill Hillcourt|10.00|1|boyscout_large.jpg|blah|blah|blah
Clothing|1001|Purse|Black Leather purse with leather straps.|20.00|1|purse_large.jpg|blah|blah|blah

14 Optional no-image statement -->No image
Optional statement to make for items that do not yet have thumb-nail images available for them. This will appear in the image column for an item if an item lacks a thumbnail image when most other items do have a thumbnail. If you don't want your pages to say anything, just leave this blank.

15 What do you want the order buttons to say --> Click To Order
What do you want the order buttons to say inside database displays if someone enters with no JavaScript on? Normally the price will be in the button, but if a browser doesn't have JavaScripting on they will just see these words. (ORDER, PURCHASE, BUY NOW, etc...). This also acts as the default button width for Netscape browsers. So put some extra spaces on either side like you see above.
Also, you set this variable with a URL to a jpg or gif image, you will see that image used as the submit button. Example:
-->http://www.YourName.com/images/order.gif

16 URL to jpg or gif of a "home" image -->home.gif
This is the name or full URL to an image that will show up at the bottom of your flat-file database displays. If you don't specify the full URL, the cart will use Host Variable #3 as the images location. This image will be linked to your "home" page. (Host Variable #2). If you leave this blank, the word "Home" will appear at the bottom of your database displays instead.

17 Items per page -->10
This will limit the number of items your database displays will put on a page. If you have 500 computers for sale in one database, it could take 5 minutes for that page to load, right? This will limit it and also provide "jump links" to the rest of the items. 11-20 21-30 31-40 etc. Nice huh?

18 Uniform Width and Height of images -->100,100
You can have the cart make the sizes of your thumb-nail images uniform by setting this variable to the width and height. If you leave it blank, the cart will display your images actual height and width. If you just define the width and not the height, your images will maintain their proportion. Example:
-->100
If you define both, they may lose their proportion and appear stretched. This variable controls both the thumbnails as they appear in database displays and in the cart's contents page.

19 Company logo displayed at top of database pages? -->1
Want your company logo to show at the top of database display pages? Set this to 1. Don't want it up there? Set this to 0.

20 Align select pull-down menus (left, right or center) -->center
If you are using any of the Database Options you may determine if they are aligned on the right side of the page, left side or center. Set this variable to one of those three.

21 Select pull-down menus (across or stack) -->across
If you are using any of the Database Options and you have more than one option with each item, you may determine if those options are across on the same line, or if they stack on top of each other. Set this to either "across" or "stack".

22 Navigation Bar -->navigation.txt
You may insert some text and HTML along the left side, top or bottom of the pages in database displays. Just put some text and HTML in a file, drop it in your cgi-bin (same directory where your vars.dat file is in) and then put the name of that file in Database Variable #22. Example navigation.txt files are here.

23 Optional return shopping URL -->
After you place an item into the shopping cart from a flat-file database display, if you click the "Continue Shopping" button at the bottom of the cart, it will take you back to the exact page you came from in the database. If you would like to have the shopping cart take you to a different page instead, then specify the URL to that page here. It may be the same as Host Variable #2 if you like. Or you may also use the "return" variable in a search form like so:
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=return VALUE="http://www.dansie.net/search_form_source.html">
The use of the return variable will override any URL you put in DBV#23.

24 Position of Navigation Bar (top, bottom or left) -->left
You may have your navigation bar in DB#22 appear on the top, bottom or left side of your database displays. You may set this variable to either "top", "bottom" or "left".

25 Database Version (2.0 or 3.0) -->3.0
To take advantage of the powerful 3.0 database search engine features, this variable will need to be set to 3.0. If you wish to continue to use the old 2.0 search format, then leave this blank or set it to 2.0. See section 4 in the Template.html file for full details on using the Dansie Shopping Cart database search engine.

26 Show all links to items or just next (all or next) -->all
If you have DBV#25 above set to 3.0 then you can use this feature. If this variable is set to "all" then large database displays will show jump links to many other sets of items at the bottom of the display pages. If you set this to "next" then you will only see two links at the bottom of database display pages that will say "Next 20 Items" and "Previous 20 Items".

27 Navigation Bar #2 -->navigation2.txt
This variable allows you to insert some more text and HTML at the bottom of your database displays. It can work in conjunction with DBV#22. If you have DBV#22 set to start a TABLE you will may need this file to close that TABLE for it to render the database display properly. This navigation2.txt file will always appear at the bottom of the database displays. If you have DBV#24 set so that your first navigation.txt file is displayed bottom, then it will appear right on top of this one.

28 Database Purchase Button Location (top or bottom) -->bottom
You can decide if you want the purchase button to appear near the top of the far right column in the database displays, or near the bottom. If you are trying to conserve space and make each row as short as possible, I would recommend setting this to "top". If you have some custom "OPTIONS" in your database, then setting this to "bottom" may work nicer.

29 Restrict keyword search to these field positions -->
By default, if you leave this variable blank, the Dansie Shopping Cart's database search engine will automatically search all field positions of your database for a keyword match. If info in the custom description fields of your database (or other fields) are causing irrelevant search results, you can restrict the field positions it will search. For example, if you want the search engine to only look in the item name and first custom description fields, then set this variable like so:
29 Restrict keyword search to these field positions -->3,4
That is, if DBV#8 and DBV#9 are set to 3 and 4 respectively. If the search engine can't seem to find any items in your database, it could be because you have this variable set with incorrect field positions. Make this variable blank, then run another test search.

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§13 ADVANCED DATABASE FEATURES:

See Template.html section 4 for full instructions on how to access and search your databases. An online demo of the database search engine is here also: http://www.dansie.net/demo.html

DATABASE OPTIONS:

Your databases may have "pull-down menus" or <SELECT> tags. This is very easy to set up with your flat-file databases. In a field of your database that is designated as one of the additional custom description fields (#13 above), you may create a pull-down menu by using the following syntax:
OPTIONS^Red^Blue^Green

The word "OPTIONS" will signal to the shopping cart that you want a <SELECT> pull-down menu with options. The following sub-fields (red, blue, green) will be the options in the pull-down menu. Make sure that OPTIONS is capitalized and that the separation caracter "^" (which is options separator, #4) is not the same as the main field separation character (#3).

You may change the actual price of the item by using a "$" in the options like so:
OPTIONS^Small $10^Medium $20^Large $30

If you set Personal Variable #36 (currency symbol) to something other than "$", such as "L", then be sure to use that symbol insead. Example:
OPTIONS^Small L10^Medium L20^Large L30

You may add to the current price by placing plus signs before your currency symbol like so:
OPTIONS^Red +$3^Blue +$5^Green +$10

Here is a more detailed example of an entire line (item) of a database file:
Shirts|1001|Men's T-Shirt|100% Cotton|10|.5|shirt.gif|OPTIONS^Small $10^Medium $20^Large $30|OPTIONS^Red +$3^Blue +$5^Green +$10
Key:
category|stock#|ItemName|description|price|shipping(lbs)|image|pull-down menus|pull-down menus

Do you want your <SELECT> menus larger than one line? (In other words <SELECT SIZE=3>) This is how you do it:
OPTIONS3^Red^Blue^Green

Any number immediately following "OPTIONS" will set the SIZE of the SELECT pull-down menu.

Do you want your databases to display checkboxes?
CHECKBOX^With tote bag +$5.00|CHECKBOX^Bag of tees +$2.00
Use + signs with checkboxes if you want to add to the current price.

Do you want to use text fields in your databases so your customers can give you some input?
TEXT^Name to be embroidered on shirt^10-20
The first field tells the cart that you want it to display a TEXT field. The second field is your statement to be printed on the page of the database display. The third field sets the SIZE and MAXLENGTH attributes of the text field.

Do you want to use TEXTAREA fields in your databases so your customers can give you some more input?
TEXTAREA^Name, address, city, state and zip:^30-4
The first field tells the cart to display a TEXTAREA. The second field is your statement to be printed on the page of the database display. The third field sets the COLS and ROWS attributes of the TEXTAREA box.

Do you want a QUANTITY text field in your databases so your customers can enter quantity?
QUANTITY^How many days?^3-3-1
The first field tells the cart script to make a TEXT box for quantity. The second field is your statement to be printed on the page of the database display next to this TEXT box. The third field sets the SIZE and MAXLENGTH attributes of the text box and the default quantity.

Miscellaneous Database Tips:

Want to use Volume Discount Pricing with your databases? Put this format in your price fields:
10.00:1:9.00:10:8.00:20
This means, $10 each for 1 (or more), $9 each for 10 (or more) and $8 each for 20 (or more). Always use the ":" character to separate the sub-fields of your volume discount pricing. Make sure your list is in order from smallest quantity (1) to largest quantity. See Template.html section 1C for information on how to use volume discount pricing with standard HTML forms.

You can add keywords to the items in your databases so the search engine can find the item better, without the keywords appearing in the database's product displays. Use HTML comment tags in your fields like so:
|<!-- these are some key words -->|
The search engine will find the keywords and display the products, but the search words wont display on the web page.

If an item in your database is nontaxable, you can put this in one of your custom description fields and the cart wont calculate sales tax on that item.
|#nontaxable#|

If an item in your database should always be charged full price, even when a webstore or coupon discount is invoked, you can put this in one of your custom description fields and the cart will always charge full price for that item.
|#nodiscount#|

You can have links appear in your database by inserting some <A HREF> tags in the custom description fields of your database like so:
|<A HREF=http://www.YourName.com/Details.html>Click for details</A>|
Or extra images too:
|<IMG SRC=http://www.YourName.com/Image.gif>|
Pop-up windows can be used to with a little JavaScript too.

Would you like to link your thumbnail images to larger images? Normally, you would tell the cart program where your thumbnail is like so: ||||||http://www.dansie.net/images/purse.jpg|||||| Putting the URL to the thumbnail image in the field position defined by Database Variable #12. But, if you want the cart program to automatically link to a larger image that you have made, just add a double colon delimiter "::" followed by the name or full URL of the larger image. Example: ||||||http://www.dansie.net/images/purse.jpg::purse_large.jpg|||||| Remember, you only need to put the name of the image as long as the image is located in the directory defined by Host Variable #3.

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§14 MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES:

Referral Tracking

You can now track if your customers arrived at your web store, from your friends website. It works like this: Instead of other website owners linking to your site like this:
http://www.YourName.com
They would link to your site like this:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?referrer=Buddy&url=http://www.YourName.com
Notice the query string:
?referrer=Buddy&url=http://www.YourName.com
"referrer" would be their identity that you know your partner/referrer by, and the "url" would be where you want the cart to redirect that customer to after they arrive at your site. Most likely, your main page. What this does is it prepares a data file in your "temp" directory with the shopper ID number like so: Buddy - 1000 Where "Buddy" is the referrer's name (you could use numbers too) and 1000 is the customer's actual shopper ID number. So, if you have a customer whose shopper ID number is just "1000", then you know that they came directly to your site from a search engine or so. If their shopper ID number is "Buddy - 1000", then you know that your partner/referrer "Buddy" was responsible for sending business your way. Now you DO NOT need to look in the "temp" directory. Just look at the top of the email receipts next to the shopper ID number. That's where the referral ID will appear.

If you omit the "url=http://www.YourName.com" part of the query string, people will be redirected to the URL you specified in Host Variable #2.

Another way to pass a referrer's name to the cart is right inside an HTML product form like so:
<INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="referrer" VALUE="Buddy">
If you pass that tag to the cart in an HTML form, it will make sure that the referrer's name is next to the shopper ID number in the email receipt.

Using the Dansie Shopping Cart Mall Version? Have people link to your site like this:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?referrer=Buddy&url=http://www.YourName.com&merchant=fred
Or:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?referrer=Buddy&merchant=fred
(Without the "url=http://www.YourName.com")

The URL you use here must match exactly what you have in Host Variable #1.

Sell Passwords

The Dansie Shopping Cart can automatically email your customer unique, random passwords or other sensitive information after "Secure Online Credit Card Transactions" and "Online Check Drafts" depending upon designated items they purchase with the cart. The sensitive information can be emailed to your customer automatically after their credit card is approved. The cart can append their email address and password to an .htpasswd file on your server granting them access to a specific directory. As of cart.pl version 3.26 the cart can automatically remove their email address and password from the .htpasswd file after the number of days that you designate.

# 20020320|20020420|John Smith|SuperWuper Widget
john@JohnsDomain.net:aansZQFmBavGI

Mens Tie|10
Gift Basket|20
SuperWuper Widget|1

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