RE: [PHP] Shopping cart question

> -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan Nobbe [mailto:quickshiftin@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 <JackListMail@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