On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Skip Evans <skip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >> Why spend ages reinventing the wheel? >> > i whole heartedly agree. > I've come across so many clients using third party carts who have been > unhappy with the final results. I hear so often "It does eighty percent of > what we need, but we do things like this [insert idiosyncratic business > practice here]." > thats why a lot of the modern incarnations have embraced the concept of modularization, eg. plugins / skins etc. etc. just look back a os-commerce / zen-cart; the notion of skins they had was horrific, basically since the ui was intertwined w/ logic, skins were tied to revs of the application - ouch! the community has matured a lot since then from what i gather. > And then getting a third party cart to do what they wanted was often either > incredibly frustrating/time consuming, or often just not doable. > i think in most cases, anymore, youre mainly looking at ramp-up time on how to use / customize / extend an existing third party system. while that can be sucky, you should really weigh the trade-off between that and getting beaten over the head w/ requests to develop the most common place look-and-feel customization crap / features. ive started to lean towards the former in my personal career, having come from zealous devotion to the later in my initial years in the industry. > Yes, writing a cart takes time, but I've found I can whip them out pretty > easily, and I have a lot of code I reuse all the time. I pretty much have a > complete basic cart stored away, but I intentionally keep its functionality > to a minimum so that I can expand on it to their specifications. > ok, well, when your custom cart has all the features of magento / [your fav e-commerce platform here] let me know. ill have finished up the proprietary plugins that make my site unique and have forgotten pretty much everything about silly crap id never want to write - like custom look at feel, crm, reports etc etc. o and also, when you have as many users / devs hitting your codebase as some of the popular platforms, im interested in hearing about that as well, lol. -nathan
