Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/24/05 18:41

James Benson wrote:
> 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 :)

no the worst thing you can do is spread FUD.
which you have just done, unless you are capable of backing up your off the cuff
remarks (about the stability of php5) with hard imperical data, which I doubt.

actually 'the worst thing you can do' is more likely to be something like
'invading a sovereign state in order to be able to subsidise your own oil-addicted,
brainwashed, selfrighteous society' than something that's anything to do with
php or the web. but then again maybe not ;-)

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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.
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>> 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, ...
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>> 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).
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> as long as the code was open, i would be happy to pay a certain amount
>> for the application.
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>> anyone?
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>> phil
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