StoreFront 5.0 Manual - StoreFront Support - LaGarde, Inc.

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StoreFront 5.0 Before you can begin designing your pages, building an inventory, advertising, or processing orders, you need to add the basic components to your site that will lend it e-commerce functionality. There are three ways to create a StoreFront web: • StoreFront-enable an existing web by using the Import Wizard function of the Store Creator. This will add StoreFront files to an existing web. • Create an entirely new web using the StoreFront Web Creation Wizard. This will allow you to create a basic StoreFront web on your local machine, and will perform some of the basic configuration tasks for you, such as creating a system DSN and creating a database connection in your web (System DSNs and database connections are covered in greater detail later in this chapter). • Create an entirely new web using the StoreFront 5.0 Web Template. This will create a new web using the StoreFront files at any location you specify, live or local. This will not, however, create a DSN, establish a database connection, or perform any of the other configuration tasks of the Web Creation Wizard. The files that are added to a web during the Import Wizard or Web Creation Wizard contain the functionality that will add e-commerce capabilities to your site. If you are curious about the functions or purposes of any of the new files you see in your web, please refer to StoreFront Files and Functions, page 13, for a list of file locations and purposes. The steps you take to create a StoreFront web will vary depending on the location of the web: live or local. The database type used in the web, Access or SQL, will also affect the steps that you take. The following sections cover information pertinent to all possible development environments and configurations. Access or SQL? Users of StoreFront 5.0 XE and AE have the option to create StoreFront webs that use either an Access database or a SQL Server Database. There are distinct advantages to each database. 36
USING AN ACCESS DATABASE Access is easy to work with, easy to support, and easy to modify. Any NT or Windows 2000 host can support a connection to an Access database, and you can develop and test a store using an Access database on a local Windows NT/ 98/95/2000/ME machine running the Microsoft Personal Web Server. An Access database can support an unlimited number of products and customer records. User Guide Access has some limitations. First, an Access database generally has difficulties supporting more than 25 simultaneous database transactions. There may be any number of customers browsing your site without overloading the database, but if more than 25 perform actions that require a connection to the database, such as adding a product to their carts, checking out, or performing a product search, it will overload the database and have a detrimental effect upon the performance of your site. This database type is usually sufficient for a small to medium-sized store. USING A SQL SERVER DATABASE SQL Server is an enterprise level database application that can support an unlimited number of simultaneous connections, products, and customer records. A SQL Server database may also perform and respond significantly faster than an Access database. The additional benefits of SQL Server also require a more advanced web host. The host must be able to provide competent and professional support for SQL Server. The use of a SQL Server database requires some additional configuration tasks on your part as well. • You may encounter difficulties trying to use a SQL Server database on your local machine. We suggest that you create an Access database locally, then upload it to the host, who will upsize it into a SQL Server database (see below). • The SQL database is not included with StoreFront 5.0, but must be created using a process known as upsizing. Upsizing is the process of converting an existing Access database into a SQL Server database. There are two different methods of doing this, and we suggest that you consult with your host to determine which they prefer. If the host allows external access to the SQL Server, then you may perform the upsizing process yourself using the upsizing guide in the Knowledge Base at www.StoreFront.net. Otherwise, the host may upsize a copy of the storefront.mdb Access database for you. 37
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