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I'm searching for a lightweight e-Commerce web-application implemented in PHP5 and using MySQL as storage db.

main requirements are:

  • as small as possible
  • Free or Open Source
  • supporting multi-language (best if utf-8 was primarily supported)
  • easy to use (don't need core to be bloated with functionality I won't use)
  • basic system for setting up prices, multi-language strings and images
  • small overhead on server
  • fast to deploy

Please don't recommend Magento as I found it a little bloated for the functionality I'm looking for.

looking forward for your tips / recommendation

+2  A: 

Try http://www.opencart.com/

Sam
opencart looks pretty solid and fast, do you have any experience with setting up more languages? (specifically i need to have product descriptions with 2 languages)
Juraj Blahunka
Adding additional languages is easy. Product descriptions are free. (The code is a mess though.)
christian studer
+2  A: 

OSCommerce is another very popular one, but i agree with the first answer also.

medoix
+3  A: 

On OpenSourceCMS you can try out 10 free php e-Commerce-applications.

Natrium
+1  A: 

Some recommendations can be found for the question What’s the best free and opensource PHP ecommerce solution? (and why?).

In my opinion if you're looking for lightweight (which is hard to define for e-comemrce), Zen Cart, OSCommerce or OpenCart would be a good bet.

Gergely Orosz
A: 

I love Magento. I blows the pants off OSCommerce in my opinion.

Minow
http://www.magentocommerce.com/
Minow
well, I specifically asked not to include Magento in answers and I gave reasons why
Juraj Blahunka
Woops! Didnt raed that part ;)
Minow
magento blows =/
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