Web Application Plugins?
Posted: Mon May 17, 2010 5:06 am
Recently i have been rewriting my ecommerce framework to be more flexible in terms of MySQL expansion and to generally standardise many functions.
As a resell plan, i plan on selling the framework to clients and then offering a plugin / module service similar to what Magento / osCommerce does.
I am just looking for further reading on how this can be achieved at the application level, i envision my app to work in the following way
In the admin area for the ecommerce framework, will be a plugin page, which will grab a list of available plugins via XML from my own server, by clicking on them and paying a fee through paypal / card the plugin will then be downloaded and installed automatically, the issue i have is exactly how automated can i get this, i cant see anyway to not manually add calling code but any thoughts would be excellent as ive had no luck with google.
I dont really want to look into how Magento and osCommerce do it, as in my opinion both solutions are overly complicated.
As a resell plan, i plan on selling the framework to clients and then offering a plugin / module service similar to what Magento / osCommerce does.
I am just looking for further reading on how this can be achieved at the application level, i envision my app to work in the following way
In the admin area for the ecommerce framework, will be a plugin page, which will grab a list of available plugins via XML from my own server, by clicking on them and paying a fee through paypal / card the plugin will then be downloaded and installed automatically, the issue i have is exactly how automated can i get this, i cant see anyway to not manually add calling code but any thoughts would be excellent as ive had no luck with google.
I dont really want to look into how Magento and osCommerce do it, as in my opinion both solutions are overly complicated.