Hello,
My name is Jason. I'm a cf (coldfusion) developer. I've been working with cf since version 4 (about 10 years). I also have extensive experience with both SQL server( back to version 2000) as well as with ORACLE (currently working with 10g,). Currently I work for a good company, we have several products, all of which run on coldfusion. I'm tasked with creating new modules for our existing products as well as new products, typically driven by the needs of our clients. I am also our lead db.
Though coldfusion is an good language to work with, I want to expand my skills, hopefully opening up other opportunities. I haven't worked with php since 2002 (senior in college). Anyways, I want to reacquaint myself with php. My plan is to set up a shopping cart on a server of mine at home (running ubunto). I want to find a fairly modern one, running on the most current version of php. I'm hoping to find one that takes advantages of packages and function calls, not purely spaghetti code. I've build several shopping carts in cf, so I figured this would be a great place to start to re-familiarize myself. I'd also like to find some examples that use webservices.
Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again
Jason
Curious about PHP
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Re: Curious about PHP
Open Source PHP Shopping Carts <-- Take a look.
Re: Curious about PHP
superdezign wrote:Open Source PHP Shopping Carts <-- Take a look.
Thanks, I've all ready googled "opensource php shopping carts", what I was asking for though, is one you all would recommend, that is a good example using sound php principles and hopefully classes.
Jason
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Re: Curious about PHP
Magento is probably your best bet. It's based off the Zend Framework, which is probably the defacto framework for PHP.
It'll use the latest in best practices, PHP constructs, etc but it's a complicated peice of code and quite large.
It'll use the latest in best practices, PHP constructs, etc but it's a complicated peice of code and quite large.
Re: Curious about PHP
What kind of web services are wanting to consume? PHP-to-PHP or is it something else?
Re: Curious about PHP
I'd like to use some webservices, I've created at work with coldfusion. A webservice should be able to be consumed by any language that supports the use of a webservice. I'd also like to look at an example that consumes the ups webservice for getting shipping quotes (this is one I've used within coldfusion in several projects).
Thanks
Jason
Thanks
Jason
JNettles wrote:What kind of web services are wanting to consume? PHP-to-PHP or is it something else?
Re: Curious about PHP
I was referring more to the passing of datatypes between PHP and other languages. Sometimes it gets tricky if you're passing data types in strongly typed languages to PHP and vice versa. A word of advice - keep your constructs simple and easy to pass back and forth. I run into problems all the time with old web services my predecessor wrote to send/receive language specific datatypes - which is fine when you're consuming them in the same language but becomes an exercise in keyboard-snapping frustration if you're not.