Technologies

To better understand this tutorial you will require to have basic knowledge of the following technologies:

• PHP (www.php.net)
  Version 4.1.0 or higher
  
  
  
  
• MySQL (www.mysql.com)
  Version 3.23.x or higher
  
  
  
  
• Smarty template engine (smarty.php.net)
  
  
  
  Smarty is powerful open source template engine. It offers comprehensive tools to separate PHP source files from HTML design templates. If you design your PHP store using Smarty, it will allow you to easily customize its look&feel in minutes.
  
  The latest version of Smarty can be downloaded from Smarty website. However, if you have already downloaded Shop-Script FREE, you do not need to download Smarty engine separately, since it is already included in the Shop-Script FREE archive.
  Smarty is distributed under the LGPL.