Dansie Shopping Cart
ReadMe Set up instructions

Dansie Shopping Cart 3.39
By Dansie Website Design
www.dansie.net
cart@dansie.net
Copyright © Dec 10, 1997-2003
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.


CONTENTS:

  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
  14. Miscellaneous features
  15. Mall Version.
  16. How to upgrade your old cart with the latest version.
  17. Tell three friends and receive a free Dansie Shopping Cart software license.


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:
  • Is Personal Variable #55 set to 1?
  • Is Personal Variable #66 set?
  • If you are using the ssl.pl script to collect credit card info, are you using a site security certificate?
  • If you are using the ssl.pl script to collect credit card info, and you have credit card info being emailed to you ( SSV#11), are you using PGP? ( SSV#10)
  • If you are using the ssl.pl script to collect credit card info, and you have the cart recording that credit card info to data files on your website ( SSV#8), is that credit card info being written to a directory that is NOT viewable with a web browser?
    • You can have the credit card info recorded to directories accessible from the web if it's protected by .htaccess and .htpasswd files and you use your website's site security certificate to download that info via "https".
  • cgi-bin browsing. Does your host have your site configured so that your cgi-bin directory cannot be browsed? Go here:
    http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/
    If you see "Forbidden" or a similar message then that is good. If you see a listing of all the files in your cgi-bin directory and can view text files by clicking on them, that's NOT good. Ask your host to fix that so that your cgi-bin directory is NOT browsable.
  • An email receipt from the shopping cart is NOT proof that you have received payment. Always check with your merchant account or credit card processor to confirm that a shoppers card has been approved prior to shipping any products. Some processors will email you a confirmation, others will also provide a way for you to login to your account and verify on their website. If a shopper places an order via the "Check or Money Order" payment option, likewise, you will want to receive and clear their check prior to shipping any products.
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:
Template.html will give you all the info you need concerning how to create HTML forms that will send your product info and prices to the shopping cart. In other words, how to feed items and prices to the shopping cart script with the use of HTML forms. You may use all the standard form tags if you wish.
SELECT and OPTION:
RADIO:   An option   Another option
CHECKBOX: An option
TEXT:
TEXTAREA:
SUBMIT:


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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.
File name:Upload format:Chmod (Unix only):
1) cart.plASCII755 (executable)
2) vars.datASCIIChmod not necessary
3) lang.datASCIIChmod not necessary
4) shopperid.datASCII777 (writable)
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)?
  3. Check your HOST variables in your vars.dat file.
  4. Try changing the very first line in the cart.pl script from:
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    To:
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl
  5. 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)?
  3. Check your HOST variables in your vars.dat file.
  4. Try changing the very first line in the cart.pl script from:
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    To:
    #!/usr/local/bin/perl
  5. 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:
  1. Your host's ENV variables don't yield the correct system paths. Therefore, the cart can't auto detect it's location. This is likely if you are using a shared domain name or cgi wrap.
  2. You want to rename or relocate the vars.dat file to a location other than default. (The default location of the vars.dat file is in the same directory as the cart.pl script.)
It's recommended to not set this variable unless the cart.pl script specifically tells you to do so. You will know when you point your browser at the cart.pl script with the test query string if you need to set this variable because it will give you a message telling you to do so.
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?test

How to configure the one variable located near the top of the cart.pl script. Example: 
$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 -->
Leave this variable blank at first. In mose cases you will never need to set it. 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.

Unix Hosts

If your host is Unix, you will most likely be able to leave this variable blank. By leaving it blank the Dansie Shopping Cart will try to automatically detect the location of your hosts sendmail program. If the Dansie Shopping Cart fails at detecting the location of your hosts sendmail program, then it will give you a message saying so when you point your browser at:
http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?test

If it fails, ask your host for the location of the sendmail program. Example:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->/usr/sbin/sendmail
Other common sendmail paths are:
/usr/bin/sendmail
/bin/sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail
Windows NT Hosts

Blat

The Dansie Shopping Cart can work with a program called Blat to send email. Ask your host what the system path to Blat is. Ask them to install Blat too if they haven't already done so.
Get Blat here: http://gepasi.dbs.aber.ac.uk/softw/Blat.html
Or: http://www.dansie.net/blat15i.zip
Example:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->C:/winnt/system32/blat.exe
Or backslashes may be necessary:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->C:\winnt\system32\blat.exe
Have your host run Blat like so to initialize it: 
c:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\Blat.exe -install mail.yourhost.com youruserid@yourname.com
If your host requires that you pass the SMTP address to blat.exe then set this variable like so:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->C:/winnt/system32/blat.exe|mail.hostname.com
The system path to blat.exe, then a "|" pipe character, then the SMTP address.

If you are using Blat and you aren't receiving any email receipts from the cart then use this test script and instructions to isolate Blat from the cart to first confirm that Blat is working.

Windmail

The Dansie Shopping Cart can also work with Windmail. If using Windmail, ask your host what the system path is and set this variable like so:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->C:/winnt/system32/windmail.exe
Or backslashes may be necessary:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->C:\winnt\system32\windmail.exe
Or maybe just:
6 Sendmail, Windmail or Blat path -->windmail.exe
Get Windmail here: http://www.geocel.com/windmail/

If your host doesn't have a system windmail program for everyone to use, upload your own:
  • Make sure your host will allow you to run executables in your cgi-bin and get their SMTP address.
  • Set your hosts SMTP address in the windmail.ini file.
  • Upload the two files "windmail.exe" and "windmail.ini" into your cgi-bin.
  • Set Host Variable #6 as "windmail.exe"
    • If you are using Windmail and you aren't receiving any email receipts from the cart then use this test script and instructions to isolate Windmail from the cart to first confirm that Windmail is working.
    Email In General

    If you are waiting to hear from your host about this system path in order to use your hosts sendmail service, you may leave this variable blank and the cart will still work (without sending email of course). You may set Secure Server Variable #8 if you would like the orders appended to a data file on your host instead.

    If you get an internal server error going to a receipt page, or you see strange text at the bottom of receipt pages, and you are not getting any email, it could mean that you don't have this path set correctly. Ask your host what it is. Leave this variable blank until you get the correct path.

    If you wish to run the cart indefinitely without sendmail and just append your orders to a data file instead, then set this variable to "off" (without the quotes). Then the cart will run without giving you the red diagnostic messages.

    SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT ssl.pl and email
    If your ssl.pl script is on a remote host and you are not receiving your customers credit card numbers via email from the ssl.pl script, then see the "SENDMAIL VARIABLES" section near the top of the ssl.pl script. Your remote host may have a different sendmail path than your local host and you will have to set that in the ssl.pl script.
    7 Date program path -->/bin/date
    Leave this variable blank. In most cases the cart is able to auto detect the date program from the server. If you attempt to set this system path and 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.

    15 Mall merchant overdue redirect URL -->http://www.YourName.com/PaymentOverdue.html
    This variable may be used if you have the     Mall Version. If one of your hosted merchants is overdue payment, you can disable their cart by simply renaming their directory or vars.dat file. Removing their login name and password from the merchant_passwords.dat file is also advised. If this variable is set with a URL and a shopper tries to use your clients cart, their browser will be redirected to the URL. You can make a custom page giving your client instructions how they can make payment and reactivate their shopping cart. 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.
    • Set this variable with a hexadecimal value such as #FFFFFF (white) or #000000 (black).
    • If you do set HV#5 with a URL to wallpaper, be sure that the hexadecimal value in PV#15 is of approximate color to your wallpaper
    • Make sure that this color CONTRASTS with the font colors you have set in HV#16 and HV#19.
    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.
    The Dansie Shopping Cart immediately removes the following types of orders after they have been placed:     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. Set this to 1 to enable it and 0 to disable it.

    26 Check or Money Order payment option -->1
    Enables transaction via Check or Money Order. Set this to 1 to enable it and 0 to disable it.

    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:
    1. Set this variable to 1 if you want the shopping cart to calculate shipping costs based upon the weight of the products they are purchasing.
    2. Set this variable to 1 if you want the shopping cart to calculate shipping costs based upon a flat fee for each item.
    3. Set this variable to 2 if you want the shopping cart to calculate shipping costs based upon the amount of the customer's purchase with flat charges a various increments. Example: 
      Under $100   - $10 s&h
$100 - $200  - $20 s&h
$200 or over - Free
    4. Set this to 2 if you want the shopping cart to calculate shipping costs based upon the amount of the customer's purchase with flat charges a various increments. Example: 
      Under $100   - 5%
$100 - $200  - 4%
$200 or over - Free
    5. Set this to 1 if you want to use Custom Database Shipping Tables.
    6. If you are going to make a "shipping included" type of statement, then set this to 0. The cart wont calculate any shipping then.
    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. Some hosts don't support resolving IP addresses and if you set this to 0, it could cause the server to not respond or respond very slowly. Keep that in mind if you decide to change this 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.

    • Set this to 0 if you want the cart to identify your customer by their IP address, browser and operating system info alone and not use cookies.
      • If you have cookies disabled in your browser, and your ISP changes your IP address while you are still connected to the internet, then the cart will not be able to re-identify you and you will get a "Shopping Cart Empty" message.
      • If you have cookies disabled in your browser, and your ISP issues you a shared IP address, and another shopper happens to have the same IP address, browser and operating system info, you may experience a "shared basket".

    • Set this to 1 if you want the cart to identify your shoppers using cookies. If you set this to 1 and your customer has their cookies turned off in their browser, the Dansie Shopping Cart will automatically use your customer's IP address, browser and operating system info for identification instead.
      • If you have cookies disabled in your browser, and your ISP issues you a shared IP address, the cart can identify you by your IP address and distinguish you from other shoppers using the same IP address by your browser and operating system info.
      • If you have cookies disabled in your browser, and your ISP changes your IP address while you are still connected to the internet, then the cart will not be able to re-identify you and you will get a "Shopping Cart Empty" message.
      • If you have cookies disabled in your browser, and your ISP issues you a shared IP address, and another shopper happens to have the same IP address, browser and operating system info, you may experience a "shared basket".

    • Set this to 2 if you want the cart to only use cookies to identify your shoppers.
      • You could lose some shoppers this way who have cookies disabled, but have unique IP/browser/OS info. However, you will never have two shoppers experiencing a shared basket.
    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.
    • Disable Payment Option. If you set it to 0, the cart will not display this payment option.
    • ssl.pl. If you set it to the full URL of your ssl.pl script, the cart will collect your customers check information and email it to you. The information can be collected securely too if the URL begins with "https". For more information on how to do Online Check Drafts go to: http://www.checkman.com
    • PayByCheck.com/iCheck. If you set this to "icheck", the cart will take your customers shipping address and then send them to http://www.i-check.net (i-check.net and http://www.paybycheck.com are the same company.) to submit their check information. If you have an account with i-check and wish to set this variable to "icheck", login to your account with i-check and set your return URL like so:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?icheck1212abc
      This is the full URL to your cart, followed by a "?" then "icheck" then the unique random id that you define in Secure Server Variable #6.
      A "failure" URL would be:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?failure
      If you are using the Dansie Shopping Cart Mall Version, then make the link like so:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?icheck1212abc&merchant=MerchantName
      A "failure" URL with the mall version would be:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?failure&merchant=MerchantName
      Last put your i-check ID in Personal Variable #50.
    • ValidCheck. If you set this to "ValidCheck", the cart will take your customers shipping address and then send them to http://www.ValidCheck.com to submit their check information. If you have an account with ValidCheck.com and wish to set this variable to "ValidCheck", login to your account with ValidCheck.com and set your return URL like so:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?ValidCheck1212abc
      This is the full URL to your cart, followed by a "?" then "ValidCheck" then the unique random id that you define in Secure Server Variable #6.
      Last put your ValidCheck.com VID in Personal Variable #50.
    • Signio/Verisign Telecheck. If you set this to "telecheck", the cart will take your customers shipping address and then send them to http://www.signio.com (Verisign's Telecheck service) to submit their check information. If you have an account with Signio/Verisign and wish to set this variable to "telecheck", login to your Signio/Verisign account and set your return URL like so:
      http://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/cart.pl?check1212abc
      This is the full URL to your cart, followed by a "?" then "check" then the unique random id that you define in Secure Server Variable #6.
      Last make sure your Signio/Verisign login ID is in Personal Variable #50.
    • CHEXpedite If you set this with your full URL to CHEXpedite, then the cart will take your customers shipping/billing address and then send them to CHEXpedite for electronic check processing. Set your CHEXpedite ID in Personal Variable #50.
    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) the prices 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
    25. Customer comments, if any. Original line breaks are replaced with a "." character.
    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:
    • Set the URL to the real-time processors processing script in this variable followed by a pipe character then your login ID. For example:
      71 Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->https://secure.hurstlinks.net/~cubecard/checkout.php|YourLoginID
      Or:
      71 Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->https://www.paypal.com/xclick/|Your@Email.com Or:
      71 Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->https://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/ssl.pl
    • Be sure you have lang.dat #154 in your lang.dat file. Adjust it to say whatever you like. Examples:
      154 -->AT&T Payment Option
      154 -->CubeCard
      154 -->PayPal
    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:
    • Item name
    • Description of item
    • Quantity
    • Each price
    • Item total
    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.

    If, when using this feature, the text in lang.dat #156 doesn't appear to be spaced out properly, see that you leave PV#57 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
    • With an email address from Russia (.ru),
    • with an email address from "hotmail.com",
    • and would prevent specifically "jack@bigfoot.com" from ordering.
    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) the prices 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
    25. Customer comments, if any. Original line breaks are replaced with a "." character.
    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:
    • Set the URL to the real-time processors processing script in this variable followed by a pipe character then your login ID. For example:
      81 Second Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->https://www.paypal.com/xclick/|Your@Email.com
      Or:
      81 Second Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->https://www.SomeProcessor.com/process.cgi|9876543
      Or:
      81 Second Auxiliary Real-Time Credit Card Processor Payment Option -->https://www.YourName.com/cgi-bin/ssl.pl
    • Be sure you have lang.dat #165 in your lang.dat file. Adjust it to say whatever you like. Examples:
      165 -->PayPal
      165 -->SomeProcessor.com
    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:

    The Dansie Shopping Cart can currently calculate shipping six different ways:
    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,