Re: [PHP] Shopping cart question
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- 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
[PHP] Shopping cart question
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. Thanks! Jack -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
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
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 I agree, this is a cart I was going to check into because it has many more features and is probably a little more if not a lot more stable than OScommerce. I just am not sure if I want to inject everything, although I may not have a choice. Thanks!
RE: [PHP] Shopping cart question
-Original Message- 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. Regards, Tommy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Shopping cart question and FREE HOSTING OFFER
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[PHP] Shopping cart question and FREE HOSTING OFFER
Hi people, I want to setup a shopping cart for an ecom site which sells baby clothese but I dont know which to pick, Agora or OSCommerce? any help appreciated, if possible please tell me why you picked the one you pick too... ?php FREE HOSTING. ? . Reciently I have purchased a large hosting account for a project that didnt go through and now i have one website with a whole lot of space and power which is too much for just me and i want to share it... Heres the plan, I want to offer anybody who is programming in servlets or PHP free hosting, BUT 1) they will have to have a site that is pretty much devoted to programming (e.g. servlets.com, hotscripts, devshed, phpdev, etc). I am offering 5mb space (more on request), java servlets (Tomcat JSP engine), MySql database, PHP (NOT safe mode), CGI-BIN, etc, yourdomain.com or a sub domain. In return they must add my banners to their pages but on the front page it can be just a small button. Now...the banners thing might tick you off a bit but heres the idea, I am toying with the idea of having an indoor banner exchange... eg: all the sites that are being hosted by me display their banners on each others sites...NOTE: this may change in the future depending on how this little experiement goes. heres the PHPINFO page to check the installation. http://www.321go.biz/phpinfo.php NO Spam, no X matererial (not even cartoons or dirty jokes) I have only 25 account available for PHP right now If interested and you think you qualify, write to me with your details at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: 'free servlets host'. All comments appreciated. Cheers -Ryan -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] shopping cart question
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Jon Feldhammer wrote: The way I see it, there are three options for maintaining state in php I've already taken the route of keeping a random session id and putting it into a database to track a user/cart So the only variable i need to track is the session id The three options I know of then are: Did I understand correctly you are implementing your own session handling? Why not use PHP's native sessions? http://wwwphpnet/manual/en/refsessionphp search engines like these) Also, with option 1 you need to have a ?php echo ?session_id=$session_id ? type line in every href which is a pain in the ass Option 2 is great, if the user uses cookies, if not, you cannot This can be automated with --enable-trans-sid -- Mika Tuupola http://wwwappelsiininet/~tuupola/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://wwwphpnet/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://wwwphpnet/unsubphp
[PHP] shopping cart question
The way I see it, there are three options for maintaining state in php I've already taken the route of keeping a random session id and putting it into a database to track a user/cart So the only variable i need to track is the session id The three options I know of then are: 1 Putting the session id in the url 2 Putting the session id into a cookie 3 Putting the session id into a hidden input type and have every button be a form Option 3 sucks asthetically and coding wise Option 1 is somewhat ugly because now you have a big ole session id in your url (plus I don't think search engines like these) Also, with option 1 you need to have a ?php echo ?session_id=$session_id ? type line in every href which is a pain in the ass Option 2 is great, if the user uses cookies, if not, you cannot track the user at all Anyone have the perfect solution? Thanks Jon -- PHP General Mailing List (http://wwwphpnet/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://wwwphpnet/unsubphp
