Store Front Question

I know how to create a Store Front using php and mysql. I know how to create a members area for my members to login into. How would I go about having my members create their own store front on the fly. Then add items to the store front and sell them. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

I would love to reply. In fact I already did, but I got a message "you didn't enter the right captcha phrase" or something. When I went back to try to enter the phrase my *entire* message had disappeared.

Maybe one of the awesome administrators or superusers can somehow get it to display?

If not then I'll just have to rewrite it *all* :/

Thanks for the reply.. I sent you a private message with my email address.. Please send me your response per email until they get the problem fixed.

I still need an answer regarding my store creation question. I have a store that I created where I can add products to it.. It operates as a normal shopping cart would..
I then have created a membership area where users can log into their own area.
From their own membership area I want members to create their own store so they can sell items on my site.
When users come to the site then can buy items from several different stores. Any direction would be great.. Thanks..

quick question, you want to have 1 catalog, where people can buy stuff from many stores, or do you want to have multiple stores, where theres a catalog for each store? and next question only relates if the second option above is picked, how are you separating the stores? subdomains or subdirectories or just passing the store name somewhere like a get variable.

it shouldn't be hard, especially if you can program a cart and catalog site, to either add users to a catalog so multiple people can add products or just limit the results of the query based on the store they are shopping from.

Thanks for the ideas.. I would think it would be easier to create the one catalog and add the store name as a different field and then query the database by the store name to get the results for each store. The user would then have access to only add products to the specific store. If I used one catalog do you think it would become to large rather than breaking it down by more than one catalog. Not sure what the limitations are on mysql. Any thoughts?