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php shopping carts

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:21 am
by cyjetsu
I am new to php, in fact just about to start studying it. Mainly right now I am interested in developing shopping carts and forums and using and modifying existing ones. I have come across some shopping carts you can buy such as:
http://www.x-cart.com/
and
http://www.viart.com/
Are these worth buying? Or are they just WYSIWYG editors that are the equivalent of dreamweaver and frontpage for html. And you can hand-code php just as well or even better without these software packages.

I have heard lots of demand for x-cart, so would I have to buy xcart software to use xcart on client sites, or can I just use open-source scripts that are x-cart?

Re: php shopping carts

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:19 pm
by Christopher
You also might want to look at ZenCart and Magneto.

Re: php shopping carts

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:08 pm
by cyjetsu
Thanks I will check out those open source carts.

But I have noticed many companies use x-cart. Would I be able to modify and use xcart with clients without buying xcart software?

Re: php shopping carts

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:45 pm
by alfredwong
if you just start using PHP and want to learn about shopping cart. I recomment using open source and free shopping cart first. Play around and learn from it. I used oscommerce before, it have a community and support and it is free. You can try that one.

Hope this information can help you.

Re: php shopping carts

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:48 pm
by onion2k
@cyjetsu: You sound a lot like a shill advertising x-cart. For the moment I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, but if you post any more links to it on here expect to be banned for spamming.

Re: php shopping carts

Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 5:47 pm
by cyjetsu
I can assure you I am not a spammer. I posted a single link once for 2 probably rival shopping carts and asked questions about how good they are. I shall go for the open source carts since it seems like the pay ones are quite unpopular. Thanks for the info.