On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Charlene <cawroblew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The company I work for is going to be creating the catalog to a small store > (~100 items). The customized catalog will include the front end that the > shoppers will use as well as the back end data entry. > > We need shopping cart/checkout software, preferably PHP (since that is what > we will be using for our site) and uses MySQL as the database. We want to > be able to hook our customized software into the software package (ie we're > not using their data entry into the catalog). We don't want to be limited > to just one shopping cart/checkout software package and this may become a > product we use for more sites. > > We have been forced to use a few products since the clients bought the > package themselves but I'm not real happy with any of them. > I would like to recommend OpenCart (http://www.opencart.com/) it is nicely designed, it is small and simple, it is modeled after MVC pattern. It lacks documentation but the source code is very understandable and there are forums on their site where one can ask for help if in trouble. I gave it a try after giving up trying to customize Zencart which is very complicated in my opinion, although it has the benefit of a larger user base and documentation. Here you can find an example of a site I did with opencart: http://www.carolinalightgroup.com M.
