Posted by Anguz on 03/02/05 04:02

Hi Ryan,

I've used osCommerce as a catalog before, but it's a bit of a pain to
customize. ZenCart is supposed to be easier, but I haven't tried it yet.
For the last project I did of this kind, I wrote my own catalog script
and I feel a lot more comfortable with that.

I do realize that it'll require a bit more work to add a cart to a
catalog like that in the future, though, unless you use something simple
like the cart provided by PayPal, but it's PayPal only.

Cristian


Ryan A wrote:
> Hey all,
> I have a client who has a computer store, now he wants to put all his stuff
> in one site.
> He does not want to do any selling from his site, but just list all his
> items.
>
> After looking via google and the the usual script sites, agora cart looks
> pretty good and easy to maintain, other choices X-Cart,oscommerce,phpcatalog
>
> I dont really want to build this from scratch as I am sure a lot of very
> very good solutions are already out there and i would rather use the time
> instead to either tweak the software to his particular needs/requests
>
> <request>
> for example:
> he wants a few lines and a picture(optional) of his product (eg: a HP
> printer) and when clicked on it should pop up a window with that products
> details.
> </request>
>
> or cleaning up his design, digital snaps etc
>
> I've never really worked on a site like this before so I would appreciate
> any recommendations you have towards a cart or catalog system thats has
> worked really well for you, or you heard is good or you helped develop etc
> I would like a cart/catalog that is open source (does not have to be
> free..but not expensive) so i can play with the code if need be.
> The reason i was leaning towards a cart is, if he ever decides to sell
> online, i dont want to build a whole extra piece of software to go with the
> catalog.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ryan

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