竉物用品店的虧損情況

我的竉物用品店已開業了兩個多月,基本上每天的營業額平均只有二百至三百元；上手經營者說每天的營業額有六百至一千元，真是騙人。頂手前，我也觀察過二天，生意額每天有五百元多，這是因為假期前的生意會好一點，我是在重陽節決定的，所以我的觀察期是不合時機。經營至今，我有以下的了解：
1. 店鋪只有十二個長期訂貨的熟客，而散客大約有二、三十個，生客更少，真失望！
2. 月頭及月中生意會好一點，月尾生意差一點。
3. 假期前生意會好一點，但星期日、假期中及假期後生意差一點。
4. 下雨天生意會差一點。
5. Yahoo拍賣網的成效不太大，平均登十幾個一星期的廣告，花十幾元廣告費，或會做成一單生意，扣除運費，不太化萛。

這幾個月的損益狀況如下:
10Apr - 30Apr
營業額: HKD6007 貨成本: HK$3781 經常性支出: HK$4649 虧損: HK$2423

1-31 May
營業額: HK$9328 貨成本: HK$6815 經常性支出: HK$5516
非經常支出(做網站及商業登記): HK$1050 虧損: HK$4053
1-30 June
營業額: HKD9710 貨成本:HK$6896 經常性支出: HK$5767 虧損: HK$2953


幸好是小本經營，現時的財務虧損我仍可負擔，不會對我的生活有影響。

現時，我要廣闊店鋪的貨品，如正在售買傘及其它生活用品，我會在淘寶網繼續尋寶，希望能找到一些好貨。另外，我亦計劃售賣寫字樓及商鋪用的小型貨架，希望好運吧。

安裝"購物籃"功能於我的寵物用品店網站

這個月，我研究過幾個"購物籃"軟件，如'Shopsite', 'Microsoft .net的 small business suit', 及 'OScommerce'，最後，因為功能和簡易的考慮，我選了'OScommerce' 來用。現時，我已增加了"購物籃"功能於我的寵物用品店網站。

另外，我把'OScommerce'的安裝步驟在下文列出，希望對各位有用('OsCommerce' Installation Procedure is as below):

I installed a free online shop system using open source 'oscommerce' application. You can download this software coding from a Taiwan web site 'www.kmd.com.tw', and then following the following procedure to install:
1. Upload the 'catalog' folder which includes the admin folder to your document root;
2. Create your new database using the MySQL database manager in your web site (I used Bluehost as service provider, so I can use its 'Cpanel' feature to create the database;
3. Create a new MySQL user;
4. Attach your new MySQL user to your new MySQL database, and grant read/right permittion;
5. Open your web browser and go to http://yourserver/catalog/install/ and click on the Install button;
6. Enter the database server information (enter "localhost" for the first field that is asked to you)
7. Follow the rest of the steps give to you by the setup wizard
8. Now your setup should be complete, delete the /install folder from your directory (or rename its directory name);
9. Change the permissions on /includes/configure.php from 644 to 444 ((if you are still getting the warning message at the top set configure.php to 444 which is read only - this happens on some servers that have been updated for security reasons). You need to chmod it from a FTP client. If you don't want to do that, maybe your hosting company will do it for you?)
10. Set the permissions on /catalog/images directory to 777.
11. Set the permissions on /catalog/admin/images/graphs directory to 777.
12. Create the directory '/catalog/admin/backups' and set the permissions to 777.
13. To change the copyright declaration from the file './includes/modules/sts_inc/sts_footer.php'
to comment out the line -> /* $sts->template['footer_text']= FOOTER_TEXT_BODY; */
14. Disable the error message in the top of panel from the file includes/applicaiton_top.php
15. Edit the first home page message from the files:
"includes/languages/tchinese/index.php"
"includes/languages/schinese/index.php"
"includes/languages/english/index.php"
(do not delete the line "define('TEXT_MAIN','');
16. Edit the several term and condition messages from the files contact_us.php, shipping.php, conditions.php from directories: "includes/languages/tchinese/"
"includes/languages/schinese/"
"includes/languages/english/"

Solution to Several Error:
Error 1.
Error Message: "FATAL ERROR: register_globals is disabled in php.ini, please enable it!"
Solution: made the changes on php.ini --> Register_Globals=On
Error 2.
I was hanging on the New Install screen, step 2. Wasn't getting errors, would just loop back to the same screen, which was caused by using php 5.1.4,
Solution: you should use php4.x.x; or 2) made the changes on php.ini --> Long_Arrays=On.
Error 3.
Cannot re-assign $this in ../catalog/admin/includes/classes/upload.php on line 31
Solution: This problem was caused by using php5, comment out $this on line 31 of upload.php
Error 4.
Cannot display Chinese Char.
Solution: Edit 'includes/languages/tchinese.php' with line --> define('CHARSET', 'utf-8');
Edit 'php.ini' to include the line --> default charset = 'UTF-8'