Cartweaver Shopping Carts

Combining the Adobe development environment with the three most popular web application development server languages in the world, Cartweaver will put you or your clients in business on the web faster that you ever thought possible.

Cartweaver ASP

Capitalize on the prevalence and wide-spread use of ASP with the Cartweaver ASP shopping cart.

Cartweaver ColdFusion

Develop a shopping cart faster and easier than you thought possible with the Cartweaver ColdFusion shopping cart.

Cartweaver PHP

One of the most popular web languages in the world now has one of the most powerful PHP shopping cart solutions.

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Which version is right for me - ASP, ColdFusion or PHP?

Cartweaver "Out-of-the-box"

If you've viewed our demos and you absolutely love everything Cartweaver offers and don't have any special customization needs for your site, which version of Cartweaver you choose is of no major significance. All three Cartweaver versions share the same functionality and look the same too.

However, if you intend to customize the code, you will need to make some considerations and determine which server language (ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP) is right for you. Whichever version you choose, Cartweaver's code is commented to help you understand the code.

With three different server models (also known as server languages) available, you may not be sure which Cartweaver is right for you. If you are already familiar with one of these server models, the choice is easy. Choose the language (ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP) you are most comfortable with. Unless you have a very compelling reason to choose otherwise, it is best to go with the language you are comfortable programming.

You may be saying now, "I'm not (very) familiar with ASP, ColdFusion, or PHP". In the sections below you will find some things to consider when making your decision.

One very important bit of advice; don't let what your current website host supports decide for you which language to learn. If a particular host doesn't support the language that looks best to you, go elsewhere; there are plenty of hosts out there to choose from that support your chosen server language.

Making the Choice...

Fortunately, no matter which one you choose, Cartweaver makes developing a shopping cart site about as easy as it can be. There are of course some things you'll have to learn, like setting up a database connection, but this is all very well explained in the documentation. What we tell people is, "You don't have to know code to use Cartweaver and develop your online store, you just need to be willing to learn a few new things along the way". Whichever one you choose, you'll find Cartweaver to be a powerful, yet easy-to-use shopping cart program.

Still not sure?

If you're still undecided and have questions please contact us.

Below you will find a little bit of information about ASP, ColdFusion, and PHP that we hope you will find helpful when making your choice to learn a server language. A link to the official documentation on each server language is also provided below for your convenience.

ASP

ASP is extremely prevalent on the web and as such it is very easy to find information and code examples online for ASP. If you have a background in VBScript programming for desktop applications, and are already working with ASP based web sites, Cartweaver ASP would be a good choice for you. If not, and you are just beginning to work with dynamic web sites PHP or ColdFusion may be more preferable.

Visit Microsoft.com to review the official ASP VBScript documentation.

ColdFusion

ColdFusion was written specifically to ease the learning curve and development time of creating dynamic web applications. It is a tag-based language like HTML rather than a script based language like ASP or PHP. For example when you see a <cfmail> tag, you can plainly see it has something to do with "mail" and easily conclude "email". Due to its tag based nature, ColdFusion code is easier to figure out what is going on. Don't let its ease of use fool you – built upon the Java platform, and with the full resources of Adobe behind it, ColdFusion is a robust, powerful platform!

Visit Adobe.com to review the official ColdFusion documentation.

PHP

PHP is very popular wide-spread. If you have some experience with script based programming languages like C++ or JavaScript you may feel more at home with PHP because PHP is also a scripting language with similar characteristics.

Visit PHP.net to review the official PHP documentation.