I agree some work on a symfony shop would be fantastic... The main thing (personally) I don't like about Drupal or similar solutions is that without really going through all the code, you never know whats in there, and so you're never 100% confident about its security... There are also all the other benefits you mention like testing etc having it in symfony.
Building on that, cranking out a shop in symfony may not even be the best way forward, rather than a really good manual with LOTS of example code to enable someone to easily build one themselves? That might be something the community would really want? On Jun 27, 6:20 pm, Gandalf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Just my 2 cents, from my point of view, personal, we should write a > new of store solution if: > > 1) we can make a better job than magento, magento got the rights > features, but implementation is really slow, can we do better??? > sure? see my post about sympal performance. > > As I said, my very own 2 cents. > > Pablo > > On 6/27/09, Marius Rugan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Antoine, > > > there ishttp://code.google.com/p/sfshop/ > > > i've signed up on the google group / took a peak into the code. imho still > > needs a lot of documentation and participation. > > i've test drove it 4-5 months ago but i was too keen on getting things done > > for a small project so i used a small footprint solution. (opencart) > > > for now i think it's a good candidate for not reinventing the wheel. as of > > functionalities, code quality and so on i'm not in the position to asses > > those since i didn't bump my head into whatever problems might generate. > > > On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Antoine Leclercq <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> [This thread follows the discussion started on > >>http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users/browse_thread/thread/9be... > >> of paypal plugin(s)) about an ecommerce solution for symfony. It has > >> been moved here as it was slightly off topic.] > > >> Agreed on the fact that we should not reinvent the wheel (@Lee), that's > >> whole point of symfony itself. > >> Agreed on the fact that many great ecommerce solutions already exist and > >> can be interfaced with symfony. > > >> But, AFAIK symfony offers a real plus when it comes to building complex > >> and > >> maintainable applications. Plus, when you have a development team trained > >> on > >> the framework, you want as much as possible to avoid injecting major > >> external piece of code that will bring its amount of specificity, its own > >> frame of mind / framework, and will inevitably cause you to dig on some > >> specific issues related to that very piece of code. > > >> In addition, what if one of these os ecommerce solutions was built with > >> symfony? Don't you think it would provide more? It would highly benefit > >> from > >> the framework improvements (integrated tests, security, performance, > >> customization...) and therefore its community could focus on the real > >> work. > > >> If we take the CMF example, how many open source solutions can we list? > >> 30, > >> 40, a lot more? > >> And great solutions like Joomla, XOOPS, Drupal, Plone… All of them are in > >> a > >> really mature state. > >> Then why Sympal? > >> IMHO the first answer would be that it's a real need for the community. > >> Because developers want to feel safe with their developments, to know what > >> they integrate, and finally to be able to dig in quickly whenever they > >> need > >> to fix a bug. > > >> This seems to be the same pattern with our symfony ecommerce solution > >> discussion. > > >> I would be interested in knowing how many people have developed ecommerce > >> applications with symfony. > >> RT @Thomas: How many people are willing to help to create an > >> "ecommerce-like" open source project? > > >> Regards, > > >> Antoine > >> LetsCod --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
