Start your own online store with opencart

So you want to start online store, sell a few items and make profit?



Opencart to rescue
If you haven't heard of opencart then you should learn a bit about it. It's an online eCommerce store to sell your products, accepts plenty of different payment options is pretty damn easy to setup and really make everything easy as hell through GUI.

Basically installation takes no more than 5 minutes. Create SQL database, download and extract opencart, put Upload folder files onto your host directory. Open your website root in browser and follow the instructions to setup admin login.

Sorry. PHP had to spoil the party!

The only thing that may cause trouble while installing is not having modules enabled or having wrong PHP version, other that it's all easy.

Linux! Cant use Terminal, learn it? It seems useful.

If you're on Linux server just login and install modules typing sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt for example. Or sudo apt-get install php5-curl. When going through wizard it should tell you what extensions to enable. Once installed you can enabled it by typing phpenmod Module_name.

You can also check manually what's installed that related to PHP. For instance use dpkg command with option --list and pipe the output to grep search command and search php. Like this. dpkg --list | grep php.

It's also necessary that you give certain file write permission. If you don't know how to do that, learn about linux permissions


Naoooo it's actually that easy!

Once installed you can login to admin by going to www.your_site.com/admin and start adding or deleting products, set price, quantity, payment options, create categories.


If you're setting up paypal as payment you can go to paypal developer account and get your data off there.

That's all there's to it guys. Using opencart is pretty easy as an end user.