MiniVend, as with most powerful shopping cart programs, is all about databases.
NOTE: No other database besides MiniVend's internal one is needed. You may find that keeping your database in an
SQL manager makes it easier to integrate MiniVend with other tools. MiniVend is fully buzzword-equipped, but if you just want to maintain a spreadsheet with your product information, you can ignore the references to
SQL,
DBI,
DBD, and all of those other things and just modify the file
products.txt
appropriately.
MiniVend implements the database in GDBM, DB_File, SQL, or in-memory format. In most cases, these should operate the same when called by MiniVend's access methods.