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
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
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
