Zen Cart (http://www.zen-cart.com) is shopping cart software that allows you to create an e-commerce store for selling your goods and services.

It is a good business practice to install and run Zen cart on your local computer.  However before you begin installing Zen Cart on your local computer, your computer must meet some hardware requirements and software requirements. It is recommended that your computer has at least 512MB RAM, and processor with at least 1 GHz.  For software requirement, it is recommended you have PHP (version 4.4x or higher), Apache web server (versions 1.3x or 2.x) and MySQL database Server (version 3.2.x or 4.x.x).

To learn about PHP, –> Click here <–

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To learn about MySQL database server, –> Click here <–

To fulfill the software requirement, it is recommended that you download one of these software package: WAMP, or XAMPP, or Uniform Server.  Below, I have further information about installing WAMP.  These software packages are advantageous because PHP, Apache web server, and MySQL database server would be pre-configured to work properly with each other. Thus, simplifies installation procedure.

The latest version of WAMP is 2.0i.
The Lehman College labroom computers  have WAMP 1.7.4 version installed.
To maintain consistency at Lehman and at your home, please install WAMP 1.7.4 by clicking here if you are have windows operating system (Mac users download here)

Note:  To see the latest updates visit WAMP log

Here is a video showing the sequence of steps  to properly install WAMP 1.7.4

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