The primary design goals of the framework are flexibility and
security. Most merchant systems will make assumptions about the
structure of your catalog data and your customer data, or about how
your order process works. Most also impose severe restrictions on how
the programmer will interface with your electronic catalog. These are
precisely the kinds of constraints that
Apache::iNcom is designed to avoid.
Apache::iNcom provides the following
infrastructure:
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Session management
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Cart management
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Input validation
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Order management
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User management
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Easy database access
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Internationalization
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Error handling
Most of the base functionality of Apache::iNcom is
realized by using standard well-known modules such as
DBI for generic SQL database access,
HTML::Embperl for dynamic page generation,
Apache::Session for session management, mod_perl
for Apache integration, and Locale::Maketext for
localization.
Here are its assumptions:
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Data is held in a SQL database that supports transactions.
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The user interface is presented using HTML.
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Sessions are managed through cookies.
Available from CPAN. See the module manpage for more information.
