Hi ...
I'm looking for free php ecommerce cms now.
Can you suggest me about what cms I should be used. and tell my the reason.
thanks
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ZenCart is a product I would recommend as it has a vast array of features and is easy to use.
Oh ... and it's FREE!!
Kindness,
Dan
Daniel Elliott
2009-12-14 12:53:38
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Try Magento, it's realtively new and seems like build well. Has lots of features.
Deniss Kozlovs
2009-12-14 13:01:20
...and a poor documentation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886615/is-magento-really-opensourcePersonally i dont like magento, is too heavy and slow.
DaNieL
2009-12-14 13:19:35
I've used Magento for a client project. I concur on the documentation being very poor. I also would like to point out that custom modifications to the CMS via plugins are very cumbersome to write and their API documentation is very poorly written. Most solutions to problems I had were found on the blog of http://www.inchoo.net
cballou
2009-12-14 13:41:55
There's always the Enterprise Edition. :)
Peter Lindqvist
2009-12-14 13:44:23
It's very slow in development with cache turned off. When trying to add something you have to go through multiple layers of abstraction. It's just as bad as oscommerce but the other way around. It's heavily overengineered.
Kamil Szot
2009-12-14 15:48:41
How is multiple layers of abstraction in itself a negative trait? The modular architecture of Magento is one of it's biggest advantages in my opinion. Overengineered is shouted at magento all the time. I rarely see a well found argument as to why one should consider it overengineered though. Why is that do you think?
Peter Lindqvist
2009-12-22 10:45:34
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Magento is a relatively new but rising star at the open source ecommerce horizon. As far as i can see, its implementation is far better than zencarts and it comes with a great number of features out of the box.
The price of these features? The template system is a little overwhelmingly complex, the web service api v1 is relatively slow and the overall shop is, due to internal EAV-coding of all kind of data, really non-performant at the beginning.
Another point on the pro-side: Magento has a large community, they discuss a lot in forums (a little too often without any answers), there are a lot of community-developed extensions for all kind of tasks (payment, skins, report, analytics, media, ...)
The MYYN
2009-12-14 13:08:28
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My own recommendation is Magento. This is a personal preference and you cannot simply say that one is better than the other. But Magento has a proven track record with large retailers and they have a solid code base with an active community. Their extension system works pretty good.
Magento is however not a system for beginners, it requires an extensive knowledge about OOP and Zend Framework. For a simple shop with little knowledge about Zend Framework i'd go with ZenCart.
For CMS, use the built-in or extensions. Or you can integrate with Wordpress.
Magento has a built in CMS that has a lot of new functionality in the upcoming 1.4.0 release. And it has several extensions allowing it to be integrated with Wordpress or Drupal. If you have the guts, it makes for a good platform for integration with almost any CMS.
Virtuemart is actually an extension to Joomla, i'm not too familiar with virtuemart, but by the looks of it i suppos CMS integration will not be a problem there.
Peter Lindqvist
2009-12-14 13:27:00
It's quite interesting, but i'm mostly dealing with Magento and ZenCart.
Peter Lindqvist
2009-12-14 13:43:43
I'd like to go with ZenCart, but their last stable release was done on 2007, while osCommerce has been more frequently updated. What would you say about that?
Fh
2009-12-17 14:00:03
Technically, ZenCart is a mess. But osCommerce is even more so. But bein such a mess actually makes it easier to work with because of less constraints. The end result varies of course.
Peter Lindqvist
2009-12-17 23:13:58
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Magento is too heavy for my taste, osCommerce and ZenCart are too buggy.
I would go with one of the following:
Alix Axel
2009-12-14 13:39:11
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thanks for your explanation. I will try zendcart and magneto.
:D
adisembiring
2009-12-15 04:11:15