php-general Digest 8 Nov 2010 11:29:56 - Issue 7027
Topics (messages 309367 through 309368):
Re: Shopping cart question
309367 by: Nathan Nobbe
Re: Newbie looking for a project
309368 by: Ashim Kapoor
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote:
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From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:quickshif...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 11:40 AM
To: Jack
Cc: PHP
Subject: Re: [PHP] Shopping cart question
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Jack jacklistm...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
I'm looking to build a DB with items that are considered more of a
catalog on one side of a website, and then provide those same items
including the same images, descriptions etc. to a shopping cart.
I don't want to re-invent all of the basic shopping cart functionality
and I'm not sure I want to use something like OScommerce and inject
the data into it at the same time as putting data into our database
that we are writing.
I was hoping someone out there has some suggestions, or even a cart
module that would allow me to easily integrate into.
One recommendation I can give you is to spend some time determining if
Magento works for you. This is a conventional platform written on top of
Zend Framework. OScommerce, and a derivative, ZenCart are ancient, and
there are many nasty things about the programming practices, most
notably,
the 'view' layer, which is markup intermingled with logic .. its pretty
bad.
Magento is robust, and has a feature set that makes OScommerce look like
it
shipped from the third world. That said it may be overkill as well -
just my
2c.
-nathan
Or look at opencart. It's based on MVC and jquery (1.3.2 ?) so you'll get
some rich UI. The DB structure is very similar to oscommerce.
I've finally had a few minutes to look around Opencart. the framework is
custom, and doesn't appear to be as robust as some of the more popular ones
I've come to enjoy, but there is a silver lining...
I still can't say whether I'll like it or not, but after just digging around
for a bit, it already feels more approachable than Magento. My hope is I
can hop in and wire this up to associate its schema to a third party
inventory and get order integration in place as well.
I've spent a little time digging into Magento, and while it seems do-able,
the completion date is no where in sight.
nice tip Jack!
-nathan
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Dear Tedd,
I have read one php book cover to cover, I wanted to contribute to projects
for 2 reasons:-
1. Someone would benefit from the app.
2. I would learn more by interacting with experienced people.
Writing apps on my own is fun but it's fruit is only for me to benefit
from,but yes if nothing else I should do that.
Many thanks for your time,
Ashim.
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:21 PM, tedd tedd.sperl...@gmail.com wrote:
At 3:39 PM +0530 11/7/10, Ashim Kapoor wrote:
Dear All,
I am a beginner looking for a project to contribute. Can someone tell me
some good quality projects where I would learn the most? I hope this is
the
right forum for this query.
Many thanks,
Ashim Kapoor
Hi Ashim:
When I started programming php/mysql, I purchased as many books as I could
and went through each one creating demos of everything I found.
I still read at least one book every two weeks (or so my expense statement
reads) and my demos have gotten more complex incorporating more than
php/mysql (i.e., javascript, jquery, css, etc.)
Now I have a considerable amount of demos and when I need something, I have
a great store of example to draw on.
Cheers,
tedd
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