Magento is a great shopping cart system. It might be hard to work with if you are not familiar with Zend Framework or OOP, but not impossible. With Magento you will never need to hack the core files. If anything in the core files that you don't like its easy to extend it. Files structure app/ core/ ----> core classes you don't touch local/ ----> your custom classes that overrides or extends core classes community/ ----> custom code from Magento community design/ default/ ----> default design and you can add more folders for your custom templates With the templates you are not limited with one template contains everything a page will have, but its based on blocks. Everything is a block even the main layout. For example you would have /design/default/checkout/cart/summary.phtml If you want to just customize the look of the cart summary then you can create /design/my_custom_design/checkout/cart/summary.phtml and in a config xml file you define the new template. Also you can choose to show the custom design in all pages or some. Thats just some of the features Hope I helped :)
MohammedBlog: http://jamandcheese-on-phptoast.com/Email: [email protected]: 012 139 5924 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [phpug] Shopping Cart recommendations > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:26:59 +1200 > > Hi all, > > Any recommendations on PHP shopping cart software that integrates with > a variety of gateways (DPS, Paypal etc)? > > I've used SilverStripe's ecommerce and payment modules in the past, > but am looking for something a bit more full featured and that I can > extend and customise without needing to hack core files (yes, I know I > can probably do this with the SS modules, but it wasn't immediately > obvious) > > Bonuses: > * real, up to date, usable documentation > * flexible templating > * active developer / user community > > Will consider paid as well as FOSS. > > I've heard good things about Magento - any opinions? > > Thanks for any pointers. > > > Paul Bennett > MoveForward - Web Development for Design Companies > http://www.moveforward.co.nz > Ph. 06 308 9722 > Mob. 027 255 8495 > > -- > NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ Find a way to cure that travel bug MSN NZ Travel http://travel.msn.co.nz/ -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]
