hi, i want to create a "shop server" application. the shop client interface will be in flash (communication with php over xml, soap or amfphp), the administration interface will be html. most likely it will probably be a long-running application that will be extended in several steps, so we need a solid foundation. we also need to get started quickly (who doesn't), otherwise i would consider starting from scratch. i have already looked around quite a lot for a nicely adaptable shop/ecommerce implementation, but haven't been very successful so far. everything i found was conceived in php4 times, where OO wasn't as wide-spread in the php community as it is today. some of the packages are poorly documented (both in-code and separate documentation), have an inconsistent coding style, are dead, are copies of oscommerce with a worse interface, ... feature-wise the best i found was xtcommerce (oscommerce fork) admin interface wise: zencart (oscommerce fork) code-wise: randshop non of them use php5's features, though, none are written object-oriented. i have no info on the performance of these shops, although that shouldn't be a prob as long as it's not desastrous (to some extend, you can always scale hardware-wise). so i am looking for a cleanly layered application where i could swap out the presentation layer. and all important shop data (products, product categories, cart, etc.) should be represented as objects, so i could extend them to implement required customizations. it would be a big plus if the admin interface was well thought-out. we need quite some features like multiple languages, multiple categories, discounts on certain products, payment provider integration, customer newsletters, possibly administration of several slightly different shops in one installation, etc. is there such an application or am i stuck with oscommerce and its forks? i don't need it to be feature complete, as long as there is a way to adapt the code without hacking the whole thing (and loosing the possibility of upgrading). as long as the code was open, i would be happy to pay a certain amount for the application. anyone? phil -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
