Hi my friend who's studying CSS wants to make a simple t-shirt catalog website. He also wants to include e-commerece in the future. What's an easy to learn CMS--preferrably in PHP--do you guys suggest for him?
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I generally prefer to build my own admin tools but lately I have been using Joomla which is a PHP CMS. I have never done ecommerce with it myself, but I have seen a few sites that use Joomla and have nice ecommerce systems.
Josh Curren
2009-08-27 05:07:48
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I would go for Drupal as the main CMS because it's way easier to learn that Joomla.
Drupal now also features plugins(modules) which can be used to create a store (Shop Modules on Drupal), bind it to other data sources like SVN and even get it to work
Personally I have set up tons of Joomla projects and it's always difficult to get the things done easy and fast.
Joomla really is too big if you plan to have a small site.
Shaharyar
2009-08-27 05:20:51
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If you want to be prepared for the future please look at some ecommerce software. These are in general better than a CMS with ecommerce functionality.
For example look at:
OsCommerce
PHPCart
Marien
2009-08-27 07:59:57
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I recently tried out oxid eShop which I liked very much.
It's pretty basic, yet very flexible and extensible.
It's very easy to understand and comes with a nice AJAX interface.
Also it's design can be changed with an interface editor that doesn't require you to know anything about programming.
If you want to have a first look at it without installing it here's the link to the store and to its admin area. The login for the admin area is admin/admin(user/pass).
It might not be as feature-complete/professional as for example Magento which is a full-fleged shop-system, but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what your friend needs.
It also has been featured in the july's issue php|architect .
André Hoffmann
2009-08-27 08:06:41
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I could recommend OXID e-Shop. We've been a doing a number of e-Commerce sites based on it and chose it over Magento, XT-Commerce etc al.
Best things I like about OXID are speed and features. Templating is SMARTY based. We got our first sites up and running in 1-2 hours, while Magento took a full day.
Good luck!
Ashant
euroblaze
2009-11-30 02:34:49