http://www.zencart.com/ is from what I understand a fork of osCommerce, except they fixed it so that the business logic is seperate from the display, so it's easier to modify the look and feel. My wife has installed/configured/used both, and she prefers zen cart.
On 4/26/05, Brett Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think osCommerce is a great option for all the features it has. It has a > strong community and hundreds of plugins and does all sorts of cool stuff > you'd want it to. > > I would not recommend it, however, if you want to do something with the > visual layout other than the standard "block-oriented" style. I had *major* - > yea, nigh unto alcoholism-inducing - headaches getting it to look like the > mockups the customer gave me because they didn't follow the normal 3-column, > boxes down each side, banner on top layout (there is some flexibility there > but not nearly as much as I needed). Internally, there's a ton of > intermingling of display code with business/database logic. If that doesn't > bother you then I think it's a very good option. > > A couple of other things I noticed about osCommerce, though probably not a > big deal: when I used it (about 4-6 months ago) the affiliates plugin had a > ways to go before you could call it usable (I had to read the code to > understand anything about how it worked), although I'm not really complaining > because it's some dude doing it in his spare time. I also really wish it > would let you customize what fields each product could have. > > If you want something with a better split between domain logic and display > logic, ZenCart looks like a good way to go. It's an osCommerce spinoff by > people who seem to have had the same complaint as I did. They didn't take it > as far as I wish they would have - I'd really like an ecommerce app that > simply handed the templates a bunch of data structures and let me display > them however the heck I wanted to - but it's a large step up from osCommerce > in that respect. > > The other one I can mention is Interchange, which does so much you begin to > wonder if there shouldn't be college degrees available in it. But my minimal > experience with it leads me to believe it's, well, unwieldy. > > Brett > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' > .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
