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[John Nunez]

Hi Edward,

I have been working with osCommerce for two years now and it has a huge 
array of modules but I when it comes down to configuration of the 
visuals it really lacks! I heard rumors of a re-write to use Smarty 
templates and make the entire system OOP but I have been pulling copies 
and nothing major has been done. When the re-write is complete every 
module will need to be re-written for it. So I think I will invest some 
time in Mambo since I also want to create an online magazine with 
article approval system.

Thanks,
John


On Feb 10, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Edward wrote:

> OsCommece, although very buggy  and budensome to it's databases is 
> still the
> most flexibly and fully supported open source solution I could find. 
> If one
> is even and average PHPer he can make OsCommerce beautiful, and 
> functional.
> With thousands of developers paticipating and hundreds and hundreds of
> modules and contributions being developed weekly, I strongly suggest 
> giving
> it a good honest try.
>
> www.oscommerce.com
> http://forums.oscommerce.com
> http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions
>
> -Edward
> P.S. Here is he beggings of one of mine... www.lofjbooks.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Nunez" <john at cyber-ny.com>
> To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 1:02 PM
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>
>> Ajai,
>>
>> I agree osCommerce is a pain to alter.  I have made so many changes
>> that I think it would have been easier to just re-write it.  But then
>> all the modules would not work. Interchange looks good but my perl
>> skills stinks.
>>
>> How are the features of Mambo w/ phpshop when compared to osCommerce?
>>
>> osCommerce features needed:
>> Top selling items, newsletters, categories and a few other.
>>
>> New features needed:
>> Manufacturer Mini Stores (just pages listing manufacturer's products
>> with a different template), backend security with Groups and tons of
>> other stuff my boss will come up with midway through this project.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Nunez
>>
>> On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote:
>>
>>> Chris Shiflett wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've never looked at any of these things, but I've heard OScommerce
>>>> mentioned a few times recently. It's not obvious to me what this
>>>> software
>>>> does by visiting their site. Is it just a content management and
>>>> shopping
>>>> cart thing, or does it have more sophisticated support for payment
>>>> processing and such?
>>>>
>>>> There seem to be all of these common problem spaces where someone
>>>> needs to
>>>> write a solution that doesn't suck. I'm wondering if this is yet
>>>> another
>>>> one.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes it is! ;-)
>>>
>>> I built a prototype site with OSC and found it to be a real hairball.
>>>
>>> And the last time I used Interchange it required Postgres and used a
>>> lot of Perl.
>>>
>>> Right now, Mambo with the phpshop component is the only decent thing
>>> Ive found.
>>>
>>> (Xaraya is an excellent framework too but alas they have no ecommerce
>>> components yet...).
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Aj.
>>> Systems Administrator / Developer
>>>
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