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[nycphp-talk] shopping cart experiences

Edward Potter ejp at well.com
Tue Feb 24 16:39:16 EST 2004


I think OScommerce is great!  Implementing my first site now for a 
large scale art based site. Hitting the road with 1/2 million $ worth 
of inventory that we have to move.

I think to date it's one of the best written PHP applications out there.

-ed


On Feb 24, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Chris Hubbard wrote:

> I've played with a couple.  I've implemented two vanilla osCommerce 
> sites.  I've implemented one highly customized osCommerce (about 1/4 
> of the app rewritten).  osCommerce is a nightmare to customize/modify. 
>  The community contributions are mostly dubious.  Sometimes the 
> contributions require other contributions to work, I've never seen 
> those dependencies documented.
>
> At this point I've written two different ecommerce packages (mostly 
> from scratch, the second based on the first).  It's faster to write 
> from scratch than it is to do the kind of tweaks to osCommerce that 
> customer usually request.
>
> As a developer, if you can, stay away from osCommerce.
> As an end user, osCommerce will probably meet your needs (60 - 80%).
>
> Chris
>
> Faber Fedor wrote:
>
>> Anyone have a recommendation on PHP based shopping carts?
>>
>> I hear osCommerce is great "out of the box" but I'm sure my client 
>> isn't
>> going to want to use that layout. Supposedly it's a bear to modify.
>>
>> I'm currently looking at FreeTrade
>> (http://share.whichever.com/index.php?SCREEN=freetrade).
>>
>> A commercial solution will be okay, but only if I get source, can
>> modify it and support is as good as FOSS support.
>>
>>
>>
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