Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D wrote: > What do the rest of you use when building online shops?
I'm doing quite a bit of work now with osCommerce on GNU/Linux (more enquiries welcome). There's a version 3 in public beta IIRC, which I've not yet tested and it's usually good to be conservative with live sites. I did a OSC/ZenCart/CRELoaded comparison a while ago which I'll put on work's web site when I get a round tuit (and I'm being far too conservative in updating work's web site...), but the long and short of it is: I'd use CRELoaded for a new deployment today, but watch for OSC3. osCommerce 2's innards are a bit untidy, but the main problem is that most live sites have several contributions installed, usually undocumented, each of them written in a different style, often invading each other's changes and doing slightly incompatible things. It would make your software engineering lecturer scream about cohesion and coupling and cry into their beer. My first act when taking on a site is to try to reconstruct the Changelog and figure out what's in it. I've yet to find two sites the same... viva diversity. Mostly they work, but I'm hoping 3 will be much better. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
