Online shop rethink

Late last night I was offered a turnkey online eBook store, stocked with 200 eBooks.
It's fully automated with PayPal, and obviously uses some scripting such as PHP, because it has some automated features.
I suspect that it's database-driven because adding new products is simply a case of entering the details into an online control panel.
This is something that I had planned to do with my own store eventually, as I learned more about PHP scripting. Now it appears that it's been done for me, so I figured that it was easier to buy in the technology than to spend time writing it myself. As the price was very low, it has to be worth it.

It's a huge download (about 350Mb), so I left it downloading and went to bed. In the morning when I checked the download, it had stopped due to an error. I resumed the download and went to work. So I won't get to see it until tonight.

It was very cheap at $7, so I'm not expecting too much of it, but from its description, it sounds as if it's worth buying just so that I can see how it works.
Plus, the 200 eBooks might be useful - although I suspect they will be the same ones that everyone is selling or giving away in bundles because they've been around for a while.

In the meantime, I'm still working on The Cafetorium. Yesterday I developed a PHP script that allows me to create just one single download page that will work for all of my eBooks, instead of writing one per product. That's going to save a lot of work and will be much less prone to error.

Maybe I'll see if I can do the same for my sales pages - and my catalogue pages. There's a lot of them to write, and until my eStore Builder program is fully operational, I'll have to do those by hand.

Actually, the major chore is creating the PayPal Buy Now buttons. PayPal's web interface for creating buttons is tedious to use and you can't save your data.
I'm not keen on programs like Paylock Generator because they are easily cracked. I cracked it by hand in about an hour, and have since written an unencryptor program which will reveal all the details of a Paylocked PayPal button.

I really need to write a program that will generate real encrypted PayPal buttons. It's possible, but not easy, so it might take a while.