On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Tommy Pham <tommyhp2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:quickshiftin@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:40 AM > > To: Jack > > Cc: PHP > > Subject: Re: Shopping cart question > > > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jack <JackListMail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > > > > I'm looking to build a DB with items that are considered more of a > > > catalog on one side of a website, and then provide those same items > > > including the same images, descriptions etc. to a shopping cart. > > > > > > I don't want to re-invent all of the basic shopping cart functionality > > > and I'm not sure I want to use something like OScommerce and inject > > > the data into it at the same time as putting data into our database > > > that we are writing. > > > > > > > > > I was hoping someone out there has some suggestions, or even a cart > > > module that would allow me to easily integrate into. > > > > > > > One recommendation I can give you is to spend some time determining if > > Magento works for you. This is a conventional platform written on top of > > Zend Framework. OScommerce, and a derivative, ZenCart are ancient, and > > there are many nasty things about the programming practices, most > notably, > > the 'view' layer, which is markup intermingled with logic .. its pretty > bad. > > > > Magento is robust, and has a feature set that makes OScommerce look like > it > > shipped from the third world. That said it may be overkill as well - > just my > > 2c. > > > > -nathan > > Or look at opencart. It's based on MVC and jquery (1.3.2 ?) so you'll get > some rich UI. The DB structure is very similar to oscommerce. > I've finally had a few minutes to look around Opencart. the framework is custom, and doesn't appear to be as robust as some of the more popular ones I've come to enjoy, but there is a silver lining... I still can't say whether I'll like it or not, but after just digging around for a bit, it already feels more approachable than Magento. My hope is I can hop in and wire this up to associate its schema to a third party inventory and get order integration in place as well. I've spent a little time digging into Magento, and while it seems do-able, the completion date is no where in sight. nice tip Jack! -nathan
