RE: [PHP] Shopping Cart Solutions

Henrik Hudson <mailto:lists@rhavenn.net> on Monday, September 22, 2003 3:09 PM said: > My 2 cents. OSCommerce is great if you want to use it out of the box, > but we tried to extend it and alter some of it's functions and the > code is very obtuse and making changes in one spot can lead to > problems in others. +1 I messed around with it for a few days just trying to add two fields to the product table but it so difficult to find where all the mysql db errors were being generated I just gave up and decided to write my own cart from scratch. ;) I should clarify a little. I gave up after only trying to add two fields because the other features that I needed in a shopping cart were WAY more complicated than the two fields and I reasoned that if it was that difficult to add two fields it's going to be near impossible to add what I wanted. So I decided my time would be better spent developing my own cart (what learning experience it's been!!). I would be able to extend my own cart much more quickly and efficiently than I could anyone elses code. > Also, it tries to throw in the kitchen-sink worth > of options and if you need something slimmer or more easily > configured you might be better off starting from another codebase. +1 Chris.