I feel that this is one area that is completely overlooked in the CF world-- Especially since OO was introduced to CF in MX. CF would be such a great platform to develop a awesome open source shopping cart/administration system. It would be easy to modularize with add-ons components etc... Ii'll bet most of what a OS CF commerce system requires already exists in the wild, but just needs to be put together in a cohesive platform. A lot of components could actually be modeled off other systems like Magento or OsCommerce
I would be willing to dedicate financial ($$) resources and time in something like this if the community was in need and willing to participate. It is something we should all consider; When searching the web for PHP carts there are hundreds-- in the CF world there are just a meager few, and like @Dave mentioned about cw, every CF cart I have seen is procedural spaghetti at best, or not FOSS. I written some half-baked code years ago for a cart, some has been re factored into OO. But it is no way ready for prime time and was build specific for existing internal systems so it is very limited in administration ability. But it has been used on several sites for many years with no issues, so I know it can be done. I think if a open source CF commerce system was approached from the CF community mind-set it may turn into something that could be used in any framework/engine. I have seen what the CF community is capable of-- and it is nothing short of astounding, so I am 100% confident it could be done. What does everyone else think about this? Would this be something that the community could use and would participate? If I get a decent response I will set up hosting, a .org, a git repo and consult with my people about the legalese involved. I would also be willing pay some of the more prominent CFr's for consulting/code/advice on this-- as I know some peoples advice/code/talent is worth every penny. Please chime in everyone, no matter your ability's-- this is something that does not exist yet, and we as a group have the ability to make it happen. -- /Kevin Pepperman "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
