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Posted by Phillip Oertel on 10/24/05 19:10
hello james,
1) i have been working with php5 for almost a year now, and the biggest
project i have yet worked on (a complex intranet banking application) is
running perfectly on it; no problems. on the contrary, since the zend
engine has been rewritten to properly handle objects (as references not
copies), a huge source of confusion/errors/odd behaviour has been
removed. we have not had one "stability" or "scaling" problem with php5.
(what i *would* worry about is having to develop oo-software in php4.)
2) "Worst thing you can do is design a website in entirely flash" ->
depends on the kind of site. you certainly wouldn't do a news site 100%
flash, but for certain *application* is can make perfect sense. what we
will do is build a product configuratorin flash, not the whole site.
regards,
phillip
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running perfectly clean James Benson schrieb:
> PHP5 has yet to see the maturity and stability PHP4 offers which is why
> most applications use it.
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> Worst thing you can do is design a website in entirely flash :)
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> Phillip Oertel wrote:
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>> hi,
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>> i want to create a "shop server" application. the shop client interface
>> will be in flash (communication with php over xml, soap or amfphp), the
>> administration interface will be html. most likely it will probably be a
>> long-running application that will be extended in several steps, so we
>> need a solid foundation. we also need to get started quickly (who
>> doesn't), otherwise i would consider starting from scratch.
>>
>> i have already looked around quite a lot for a nicely adaptable
>> shop/ecommerce implementation, but haven't been very successful so far.
>> everything i found was conceived in php4 times, where OO wasn't as
>> wide-spread in the php community as it is today. some of the packages
>> are poorly documented (both in-code and separate documentation), have an
>> inconsistent coding style, are dead, are copies of oscommerce with a
>> worse interface, ...
>>
>> feature-wise the best i found was xtcommerce (oscommerce fork)
>> admin interface wise: zencart (oscommerce fork)
>> code-wise: randshop
>> non of them use php5's features, though, none are written
>> object-oriented.
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>> i have no info on the performance of these shops, although that
>> shouldn't be a prob as long as it's not desastrous (to some extend, you
>> can always scale hardware-wise).
>>
>> so i am looking for a cleanly layered application where i could swap out
>> the presentation layer. and all important shop data (products, product
>> categories, cart, etc.) should be represented as objects, so i could
>> extend them to implement required customizations.
>> it would be a big plus if the admin interface was well thought-out.
>>
>> we need quite some features like multiple languages, multiple
>> categories, discounts on certain products, payment provider integration,
>> customer newsletters, possibly administration of several slightly
>> different shops in one installation, etc.
>>
>> is there such an application or am i stuck with oscommerce and its forks?
>> i don't need it to be feature complete, as long as there is a way to
>> adapt the code without hacking the whole thing (and loosing the
>> possibility of upgrading).
>>
>> as long as the code was open, i would be happy to pay a certain amount
>> for the application.
>>
>> anyone?
>>
>> phil
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