Hello there
I would like to hear your suggestions about this:
When someone comes to the point of wanting to design an online store, what is the best choice? I guess I could start from 0, doing it with mysql, php and appache. But, I just thought that may be, there is some kind of already made software for this kind of website which is easily customizable.
What I mean is: there are a lot of times when we end up doing things that were already done in the past and may be it is not worth it to devote time to that task because there is already a software which does that. For example, to make a forum, you can use SFM, or to make a blog you can use wordpress, etc. That is the kind of software that I might be asking for but this time with reference to online stores. If there is nothing, it is ok, then I will start it from 0.
Thanks for all.
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Re: online store
There are LOADS of shopping scripts available; the main ones are OSCommerce, CubeCart, ZenCart and ... one I forget the name of.
However...
None of them are much use unless you want something fairly straightforward. As soon as you need something a bit unusual or with a new feature, then the prewritten ones fall down pretty quickly. They're all written to be complete applications that are easy to install rather than as a framework to build upon. I think that's a big failing. When my company needed a new store I wrote it from scratch.
However...
None of them are much use unless you want something fairly straightforward. As soon as you need something a bit unusual or with a new feature, then the prewritten ones fall down pretty quickly. They're all written to be complete applications that are easy to install rather than as a framework to build upon. I think that's a big failing. When my company needed a new store I wrote it from scratch.
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Re: online store
I liked your reply. If there is someone who knows about some application that is like a framework for building online stores as onion2k said, I would be glad to hear.onion2k wrote:There are LOADS of shopping scripts available; the main ones are OSCommerce, CubeCart, ZenCart and ... one I forget the name of.
However...
None of them are much use unless you want something fairly straightforward. As soon as you need something a bit unusual or with a new feature, then the prewritten ones fall down pretty quickly. They're all written to be complete applications that are easy to install rather than as a framework to build upon. I think that's a big failing. When my company needed a new store I wrote it from scratch.
Another question, I have seen some offers of companies which sell this online stores for like 1700euros. They make the online store for you. I just was wondering whether they develop this kind of site from 0 or they use some kind of framework.
Thanks in advance.