Re: Flexible Shopping Cart (was: Shopping Carts)

Manuel Barros Reyes wrote: > I've sent a message some hours ago and committed the mistake of > including it inside of an already started thread, don't know if > someone read it. > > The details are in that thread but basically what I am looking for is > a shopping cart that has flexibility with respect to the graphical > layout of elements and their appearance as well as the ability to > extend the framework with custom functionalities. > > Don't have good experience with oscommerce because of the way the > layout is set with tables, it doesn't give much freedom and couln't > find good docs about it. Saw Zen Cart and it looks promising but have > no experience on it. > > Listen to your suggestions. > Thanks again. I would very strongly sway you against oscommerce. I wrote a theme system that is wildly popular for phpnuke and postnuke cmss (AutoTheme) and had some that wanted it for oscommerce. I moded my code for oscommerce, but it was a serious bitch. It may do as advertised, but it is tightly coded and leaves no room for additions. To do *anything* requires hacking core files, after sifting through crap code to try and figure how it works, then hack it to what you want. I once installed zencart and have never used it, but at the point where people wanted my theme system for zencart I started trying to port it. It was my lack of enthusiasm that kept it from happening, but from what I remember it was s rewrite of oscommerce of sorts but a modular system, where they coded it in such a fashion that you could add modules, not hack core code to get the functionality that you needed. Not sure how the development has progressed but my 2 cents. -Shawn