Table of Contents

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• NAME
  • Version
• DESCRIPTION
• OVERVIEW OF MINIVEND
  • The Vend Concept
  • A typical user session
  • How MiniVend Manages Sessions
  • Page Delivery
• DISTRIBUTION AND SUPPORT INFORMATION
  • Where to Download MiniVend
  • Perl
• QUICK START
  • The Catalog Directory
  • makecat -- set up a catalog from a template
  • Setting up multiple catalogs
  • If something goes wrong
• SETTING UP YOUR CATALOG
  • Start with a database
  • Features to use
  • Use the demo catalogs
  • Tree design
  • The Essentials
  • The Demo Catalog
  • A bit about "simple"
  • MML -- MiniVend Markup Language
  • HTML Hypertext links
  • Images
  • Cookies
  • Basic MiniVend Tags
  • Inserting hyperlinks
  • How to order an item
  • Accessing form values
  • Where do I go from here?
• DATABASES
  • A bit about text source files
  • MiniVend Database Operation
  • The Product Database
  • Multiple Database Tables
  • MiniVend built-in database support
  • Character usage restrictions
  • Database Attributes
  • Dictionary indexing with INDEX
  • MEMORY for memory-only databases
  • IMPORT_ONCE
  • Importing in a page
  • Exporting from a database
  • Write Control
  • Global Databases
• SQL SUPPORT
  • SQL support via DBI
  • SQL Access Methods
  • Importing from an ASCII file
• MINIVEND TAG REFERENCE
  • Tag syntax
  • DATA and FIELD
  • SET, SETI and SCRATCH
  • LOOP
  • IF
  • TAG -- the catch all
  • COMMENT
  • User-defined Tags
  • PRICE, DESCRIPTION, ACCESSORIES
  • FILE and INCLUDE
  • Banner/Ad rotation
  • Tags for summarizing shopping basket/cart
  • Item Lists
  • Embedded Perl Code
  • ASP-like Perl
• MiniVend Perl Objects
  • On-the-fly Catalog Pages
  • Special Pages
  • Checking Page HTML
• FORMS AND MINIVEND
  • Special Form Fields
  • Form Actions
  • One-click Multiple Variables
  • Checks and Selections
  • Integrated Image Maps
  • Setting Form Security
  • Stacking Variables on the Form
  • Extended Value Access and File Upload
  • Updating MiniVend database tables with a form
• THE SEARCH ENGINE
  • The Search Form
  • Glimpse
  • Fast Binary Search
  • Coordinated and joined searching
  • Specifying a text-based search with SQL-like syntax
  • Range Searching
  • One-click searches
  • Setting display options with mv_value
  • In-page searches
  • Search Profiles
  • Search Reference
  • The Results Page
  • Updating session variables after a search
  • Using a Search Cache
• THE ORDER PROCESS
  • How to set up an order link
  • How to set up an order button
  • How to set up an on-the-fly item
  • Order Groups
  • Basket display
  • Multiple Shopping Carts
  • Advanced Multi-level Order Pages
  • Simple Order Report File
  • Fully-configurable Order Reports
  • Order Receipts
  • The Order Counter
  • Customer Input Fields
• PRODUCT PRICING
  • Simple pricing
  • Price Maintenance with CommonAdjust
  • CommonAdjust Examples
  • PriceBreaks, discounts, and PriceAdjustment
  • Item Attributes
  • Product Discounts
  • Sales Tax
  • Using CyberCash
  • CyberCash 3.2
• SORTING
• SHIPPING
  • Shipping Cost Database
  • Criteria determination
  • Shipping Calculation modes
  • How shipping is calculated
  • More on UPS-style lookup
  • Geographic qualification
  • Handling charges
  • Default Shipping Mode
• USER DATABASE
  • The [userdb ...] tag
  • Setting defaults with the UserDB directive
  • User Database functions
  • Address Book
  • Accounts Book
  • Preferences
  • Carts
  • Controlling page access with UserDB
• TRACKING AND BACKEND ORDER ENTRY
  • ASCII Backup Order Tracking
  • Database Tracking
  • Custom Order Routing
• MINIVEND SECURITY
  • SSL support
  • Administrative Pages
  • Controlling access to certain pages
• INTERNATIONALIZATION
  • Setting the locale
  • MiniVend Locale Settings
  • Special Locale keys for price representation
  • Dynamic locale directive changes
  • Sorting based on Locale
  • Placing Locale information in a Database
• MINIVEND CONFIGURATION FILES
• MINIVEND.CFG
  • ActionMap
  • AddDirective
  • AdminSub
  • AllowGlobal
  • Catalog
  • CheckHTML
  • DisplayErrors
  • DomainTail
  • DumpStructure
  • Environment
  • ErrorFile
  • FormAction
  • FullUrl
  • GlobalSub
  • HammerLock
  • HouseKeeping
  • IpHead
  • IpQuad
  • Legacy
  • Locale
  • LockoutCommand
  • Mall
  • MaxServers
  • NoAbsolute
  • PIDcheck
  • PIDfile
  • SafeUntrap
  • SendMailProgram
  • SocketFile
  • SocketPerms
  • SubCatalog
  • SysLog
  • TcpHost
  • TcpMap
  • TemplateDir
  • UserTag
  • Variable
  • VarName
• CATALOG.CFG
  • Programming watch points in catalog.cfg
• Configuration Directives in catalog.cfg
  • ActionMap
  • AlwaysSecure
  • AsciiTrack
  • AutoModifier
  • Autoload
  • CommonAdjust
  • ConfigDir
  • CookieDomain
  • CookieLogin
  • Cookies
  • CreditCardAuto
  • CustomShipping
  • CyberCash
  • Database
  • DefaultShipping
  • DescriptionField
  • DisplayErrors
  • DynamicData
  • EncryptProgram
  • ErrorFile
  • ExtraSecure
  • FormAction
  • FormIgnore
  • FractionalItems
  • Glimpse
  • HTMLsuffix
  • ImageAlias
  • ImageDir
  • ImageDirInternal
  • ImageDirSecure
  • Locale
  • LocaleDatabase
  • MailOrderTo
  • NoCache
  • NoImport
  • NonTaxableField
  • OfflineDir
  • OnFly
  • OrderCounter
  • OrderLineLimit
  • OrderProfile
  • OrderReport
  • PageDir
  • PageSelectField
  • ParseVariables
  • Password
  • PGP
  • Pragma
  • PriceCommas
  • PriceDivide
  • PriceField
  • ProductDir
  • ProductFiles
  • ReadPermission and WritePermission
  • RemoteUser
  • Replace
  • Require
  • RobotLimit
  • Route
  • SalesTax
  • SalesTaxFunction
  • SaveExpire
  • ScratchDefault
  • ScratchDir
  • SearchProfile
  • SecureURL
  • SendMailProgram
  • SeparateItems
  • SessionDatabase
  • SessionDB
  • SessionExpire
  • SessionLockFile
  • SessionType
  • SpecialPage
  • SpecialPageDir
  • Static
  • StaticAll
  • StaticDepth
  • StaticDir
  • StaticFly
  • StaticPage
  • StaticPath
  • StaticPattern
  • StaticSuffix
  • Sub
  • TaxShipping
  • UpsZoneFile
  • UseModifier
  • ValuesDefault
  • Variable
  • VariableDatabase
  • VendURL
  • WideOpen
• ADMINISTERING MINIVEND
  • Starting, Stopping, and Re-starting the Servers
  • UNIX and INET modes
  • User reconfiguration
  • Making the Product Database
  • Updating Individual Records
  • Expiring Sessions
• DEBUGGING
• MANUAL INSTALLATION OF CATALOGS
  • Needed Directories
• Setup for HTTP Servers
  • UNIX-domain sockets
  • INET-domain sockets
  • Internal HTTP server
  • Setting up VLINK and TLINK
  • Compiling VLINK and TLINK
  • Manually compiling VLINK and TLINK
• AUTHOR
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS