What's the latest with carts?

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What's the latest with carts?

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I need a cart (PHP/MySQL compatible) for hundreds of products, to be used inside a WordPress site (I'll integrate them somehow). The owner is moving up from a WP cart plugin to something more robust.

osCommerce still the old standby http://www.oscommerce.com ?
ZenCart I looked at/dl'ed at a year ago and found it to be awkward.
Anyone tried the new-ish Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com ?

[edit] I should have added I also tried osCommerce a year ago and found it's written to be the site, rather than written to be part of the site. [/edit]
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Re: What's the latest with carts?

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Haven't looked at Magento but I agree with what you say about osCommerce, it rather becomes the site in its own right.

Be nice to have an easily integrated library of components. Who's interested in getting one together?!
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They already tried this, it was called DevNet Store. If you do a search you'll be able to find links to the code repos, etc. I don't think they finished it though.
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Yea we didn't get very far. I've always thought a web framework GEARED towards ecommerce would be much more useful than a full-blown ecommerce application, but I have yet to find something like this.
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What exact functionality do you need? Product order buttons? Cart? Checkout sequence? What admin functionality?
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arborint wrote:What exact functionality do you need? Product order buttons? Cart? Checkout sequence? What admin functionality?
Product order buttons, checkout sequence, cart, add/remove products... and for admin, everything you'd want to administrate hundreds of products: add/edit/remove products, add/edit/remove categories, add/edit/remove brands, keywords, image upload... all the things you need to run a web cart.
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intellivision wrote:... all the things you need to run a web cart.
The number of bells and whistles that some clients consider essential varies widely. One of the reasons that cart software get so bloated is that every client uses a different 30% of the features.

Shop
- product order buttons,
- cart, add/remove products
- checkout sequence
- payment processing,create order records, send emails

Admin
- add/edit/remove products,
- add/edit/remove categories,
- add/edit/remove brands, (do these contain categories?)
- keywords, (for products or everything?)
- image upload
- order processing and emailing

The above list is a very basic starting point. It is not that difficult to code if you have some support for basic CRUD pages.
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Re: What's the latest with carts?

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^^^ I know I could code it, but I like to download and modify already-written/debugged/tested software. But I agree that users use only 30% of packages like carts.
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