After frustration with installing custom designed skins for ZenCart, I was wondering which, if any, of the PHP shopping carts out there have a good templating system that makes it easy (or easier) to install custom designs?
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Magento is alright to skin, provided you know a bit about Views and also how the layout is controlled.
It's been a while since I used Magento, but from what I can remember is you define a layout in an XML file, and then there are many views in a different folder of which you can modify quite easily.
alex
2010-03-12 06:35:46
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There is a project called open cart at http://www.opencart.com/.
It has plugins and a template system so it should be fairly easy skin.
Sinan
2010-03-12 07:23:41
I have used Opencart and Avactis (see reply below) and by far found Opencart to be much better. It's less bloated and cleaner in code. Avactis seems to be a private project they're charging for and although the latest version has undergone a big revision, it still is slow as mud on some things (in my humble opinion) and has caused database timeouts on shared hosting on a few of the sites we built using it.
niggles
2010-03-12 10:54:30
Addendum: Avactis has a lot more features than Opencart and seems a lot more mature in many ways (except as I said above), but Opencart has a community base and extensions being added and incorporated into new releases.
niggles
2010-03-12 11:13:08
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I think it is Avactis shopping cart.
Various dynamic parts of Avactis storefront can be integrated into an existing website through inserting of simple Tags into static pages. All Avactis Tags are described in the Avactis Tag Library
More details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avactis
Chris
2010-03-12 10:22:41