These are the complete directions: (cPanel is the name of the most popular Control Panel, provided by web site hosting companies, like hostgator.com): [ NOTE: The ONLY time cPanel has to be used is in setting up the database and giving it a user with a password. So this is a one-time thing. All db entries and changes are made via the easy, full-featured online interface of the shopping cart application. Free auction software for your web site is also available. ] Using your cPanel of your hosted site and, specifically, using the mySQL Databases facility of cPanel: make a new user (username) and password. (Write these down, so you can use them very soon.) Make an empty database in that same cPanel facility and assign the new user TO that database. (Write down the name of the database, you will need it soon.) Now go to the phpMyAdmin facility of your cPanel and double-click on the new database name. Next open the SQL tab. Now find the file, create_db_tables.txt , in the zipped up kit you downloaded -- the same kit in which you found these very directions!! Copy everything from the top of that file down to (but NOT including) "-- Insert data into the tables". Paste this into the SQL tab and click GO. Open the SQL tab again. Now Copy everything BELOW the "-- Insert data into the tables" line and Paste it in the SQL tab textarea. Click GO. Now you have an administrator with these characteristics you need to KNOW: email: first@first.cc password: firstone ---------------- Now, in the model folder, edit database.php to have the name of your new database AND _ITS_ user's username and that users password (all using things created in the very first part of step 1, above). The single quotes are needed -- so LEAVE THEM. ------------ Now, choose a NAME FOR YOUR FOLDER in your public web server root and create this folder. NOW: Change 'foldername/' to 'yourFolderName/' and 'foldername//' to 'yourFolderName//': in util/main.php (leave the single quotes). Now, in line 44 of view/sidebar.php change [foldername] to yourfolder name (no brackets)(4 places). (Also change[mydomain] to yourDomainName (no brackets) where it occurs -- just in 2 of 4 of these same places.) Edit the lines of content and browser title in view/header.php as desired . In home_view.php edit: "We have junk!" (so it reads what YOU want) Edit 'My Junk, Inc.' in view/footer.php (to your company name) You will also need to change the address for your business on the checkout/checkout_payment.php page (near the BOTTOM of that page) There are more changes you will have to do, but later. ALL ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS ARE ON a screen shot of the homepage of MY instance of the shoppingcart (in the folder you unzipped: myHomepage.jpg ). ----------- NOW. Upload (ftp) the entire contents **_within_** the folder you got when you unzipped the zipped-up kit TO the new folder you put in the root of your web site. --------- Open your new shopping cart at : http://[yourdomain]/[yourfolder] Before acting on the additional directions shown in the screenshot, myHomepage.jpg, you will FIRST need to do some admin (but DO read and study the screenshot for a couple minutes right now, at this point; shown in the screenshot is the HOME PAGE and the Featured Products for CATALOG 1 -- for these reasons all the Categories of CATALOG one appear in the sidebar (the heading "Featured Products" just got cut off)): Re: ADMIN: The address to add categories and products and do everything else you need is http://[yourdomain]/[yourfolder]/admin/ admin user email and password needed are above. **IMPORTANT NOTE** The order you put Categories in MATTERS. The first 10 categories are for CATALOG 1 , THE NEXT 10 for CATALOG 2, and so forth. (See further notes about this in the screenshot provided.) Edit line 18 of sidebar.php (in the view folder) to reflect the actual number of catalogs you have (you must have one catalog for each 10 Categories -- though there is a way to have Categories hidden, if you want less than 10 Categories in a given Catalog). Also Catalog1, Catalog2, ... can be renamed to any name you want. Again, it's line 18 of wiew/sidebar.php . *ALSO* : While Products can absolutely be added to any existing Category (whether active or not) and can be added in any order, YOU MUST KEEP TRACK OF THE ORDER PRODUCTS WERE ADDED. This is because they are auto-numbered 1,2,3,4, ... and you must know what number each product has, so you have the potential of making it a Featured Product (see next 1-sentence paragraph, below). After you have done all the things noted: edit Featured Products (by ID no.) in sets in index.php. Change shipping rates and state tax rates in model/order_db.php . --------------- IMPORTANT NEW FOOTNOTE (true for both the check/PayPal and ssl/credit card versions): A new variant of the shopping cart allows for the indication of 0, 1, or 2 variants of a given product, given the products are same-priced, otherwise identical (except for the 0-2 varying attributes), and have stock-keeping unit or SKU numbers or codes that are the same (OR starts with all the same numbers). THUS, now, for example: You could sell more than one shirt on a single display page, allowing customers to (for example) choose the color and/or logo they want. --------------- The directions for OTHER VERSION, the pay-by-check-orPayPal version is: http://mynichecomputing.org/fshopcart/directions.txt See the partial screen shop of home page (with featured items) at: http://mynichecomputing.org/fshopcart/myHomepage.jpg If you would like a paragraph (or so) more of directions, see: http://mynichecomputing.org/fshopcart/other_directions.txt Credits: Much of the php code for this shopping cart is from the many various lessons in the book: Murach's PHP and MySQL by J. Murach and R. Harris (Murach, 2010).