Any experiences with X-Cart?

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Any experiences with X-Cart?

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I am looking for an e-commerce shopping cart script that is full-featured for selling both products and services and e-goods. The best I have been able to come across is http://www.x-cart.com and was wondering if any of you guys have had any experiences with this one or any others that you may or may not recommend? Price isn't really an issue, as I would rather pay for quality and functionality. Thanks for any help!
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Its so-so. Its better than oscommerce/zen. However its like some php5 code on top of php4 on top of php3 code and then smarty tied into it to boot. Don't think that because they used smarty its all cool though, its a tangled rats nest.

If you don't really plan on changing too much of the functionality then go for it But I sat here at my desk and watched a co-worker literally spend about 3 hours trying to change the terms and conditions page using their admin interface. I ended up manually changing it, Some stuff was in the database, some stuff was in obscure templates, other stuff was buried in code.
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Hey Begby... boy... thanks so much for your input on X-Cart. I have been "shopping" around for a shopping cart (pun intended) for about a week now and haven't really nailed down which one to go with. X-Cart seems to be the winner as far as features, I hear good things about Zen.. but have failed to really find out much about how it runs or how easy it is to modify.

If you had to go with a relatively full-featured shopping cart... knowing what you know... is there one out there right now that fits the bill? Would love to hear any recommendations. Thanks!
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Oscommerce is bad, zen is based on that and is just as bad. Both of them are absolute junk. The namespace is completely polluted with literally hundreds and hundreds of functions, some of which are coded differently in two places. The code is absolute spaghetti and impossible to work with. Zen and OsCommerce are seriously examples of how to take PHP and code something in the absolute worst ways possible.

Speaking of the devil we just had to disable a client's zen cart two days ago because it magically decided to stop closing db connections and crashed our db server. I don't know if it got hacked or what, but we aren't hosting it anymore.

If someone held a gun to my head and said I had to use a PHP shopping cart, I guess it would have to be x-cart as its the least worst that I have seen. Like I said, it does what it does, but don't plan on modifying it heavily, just use it out of the box and be happy with it. Oh yeah, the tech support guys are actually helpful too, which is nice. If you call them they will send you a fully functional 30 day demo.

There is an e-commerce deal for drupal that I have heard of, but I have yet to try it. Check out that too before you drop money on x-cart.
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all right, I've been trying my hardest not to spam this forum or promote this too heavily, but this thread just redeems my confidence that there is absolutely a market for DevNetStore. If you find that none these shopping cart / ecommerce solutions are up to par, please join our project. We started the project for the same reasons being stated here in this thread. It is intended to be an open source, object-oriented, modular php shopping cart / ecommerce solution. It is in pre-development right now, so it will be a while before we have even a beta product released, but I just thought you guys might be interested. It's your chance to be involved in building a shopping cart YOUR way.

There. I'm done. :oops: no more spamming.
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