Large Project, Need Advice!
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:24 pm
Hello, I am currently working at a business that is wanting to build a fairly complex website that will be offering thousands of different products.
The design and basic php coding are not the problem. The real question is about the content on the pages within the website.
Does anybody know of any programs or advanced php scripts that are cost effective and will easily integrate with one another to complete the following objectives
Manage 1000+ products including their information and prices
Search website - Search Engine that will search products based on keywords within product pages
Allow Checkout - Advanced shopping / checkout cart connected to a my sql database that is capable of giving estimates, calculating coupons/ coupon codes, calculating shipping, creating invoices , displaying the status of current orders, and displaying previous orders
Log these orders in an ftp database, and send an organized invoice copy to an email that will be specified.
Export archived orders so they can be opened and saved with quickbooks
We would like this website to be very similar to newegg.com
We were looking at a program called printsmith that does all of this and attaches to almost any web server, but their quote was $15,000 - $20,000 more than we are looking at spending.
There are an overwhelming amount of scripts and programs to search through to get all of these features on the same website, not to mention there are far too many features to consider building these programs from the ground up.
I would like to try to eliminate as much trial and error as possible.
If anybody knows of a good program/script that has one or more of these features, please recommend it to me, I am very open to suggestion.
Any other input would be greatly appreciated.
The design and basic php coding are not the problem. The real question is about the content on the pages within the website.
Does anybody know of any programs or advanced php scripts that are cost effective and will easily integrate with one another to complete the following objectives
Manage 1000+ products including their information and prices
Search website - Search Engine that will search products based on keywords within product pages
Allow Checkout - Advanced shopping / checkout cart connected to a my sql database that is capable of giving estimates, calculating coupons/ coupon codes, calculating shipping, creating invoices , displaying the status of current orders, and displaying previous orders
Log these orders in an ftp database, and send an organized invoice copy to an email that will be specified.
Export archived orders so they can be opened and saved with quickbooks
We would like this website to be very similar to newegg.com
We were looking at a program called printsmith that does all of this and attaches to almost any web server, but their quote was $15,000 - $20,000 more than we are looking at spending.
There are an overwhelming amount of scripts and programs to search through to get all of these features on the same website, not to mention there are far too many features to consider building these programs from the ground up.
I would like to try to eliminate as much trial and error as possible.
If anybody knows of a good program/script that has one or more of these features, please recommend it to me, I am very open to suggestion.
Any other input would be greatly appreciated.