VB Driven Shopping Cart

[PALAEOLOGOS]

I have Apache 2, PHP 4.0, MySQL 3 and VB6

TASK: Build Shopping Cart using PHP to interact with a VB6 CGI (thats compatible with Apache 2).

Now I want to make a shopping cart thats driven by VB6 because its the only language I know. I am a newbie in all other areas and low-xpert in VB6.

I have essentially no idea what i should be looking for because most of my VB6 experience was with Databases and Standalone Applications. While I can see using IIS as a built in capability, my environment will not be IIS based it will be Apache 2. So I guess the first question is how do i get a VB6 CGI to work with Apache, PHP and MySQL? Something simple like a "Hello World" Example would be fine and if anyone knows how to get data from peoples browsers/forms and then send info back to browser this would also be helpful.



Thankyou in advance.

(PS if its in the wrong place, dont blame me I have no idea where to put this post )

[dee-u]

Shopping Cart in a webpage using VB, is that what you mean?

[PALAEOLOGOS]

Um, no I think is teh answer to your question. What I want is to get the engine or mechnisms for a shopping cart using VB as the guts of my program. In other words I want to make an Internet Application that uses pure VB to drive all database connections, page retrieval, re-directions etc. The pages should be PHP and they should initiate actions from the CGI VB6 applications.

A man by the name of Keith O'Brian made a BAS module called CGI4VB (sometimes refered to as VB4CGI). I have managed to get some simple interaction happening using post and get methods of forms which can be utilised by my VB6 CGI. Also he was kind enough to provide a database example, although very simple.