Topic: Shopping Cart/Database Problems!

[Stone Linton]

Has anyone gotten 'The Exchange Project" (http://theexchangeproject.org/default.php?) to work?  I'm trying to get it to run from an ibay as an online store.  It uses PHP and MySQL.  Documentation is some of the worst I've come across.

It keeps returning an "unable to connect to database server".  The installation has me create and populate a MySQL database . . . but no more info.  Anyone with any advice?

What account is used to access MySQL databases?

If no advice for this, what are some well documented and cleanly designed shopping cart/store front packages that are known to run with our beloved e-smith servers?

[arkman]

I haven't looked at the program, but it doesn't sound like you've told the software how to connect to the database. I'm assuming that from your post that you've already "constructed" the database (i.e. used something like [name].sql to create the tables either from the command line mysql> or from phpMyAdmin), if you haven't you are going to need to do that. With most (all) php/mysql apps there will be someplace to set the database connection parameters, these wil at the least be db servername, dbname, user  and password. These are usually in some file called config, or something similar, have a look in the application directory for something similar, or look in index.php and see what it is calling.

Good luck.