Posted by Adam on 04/27/06 13:37

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:01:10 GMT, justour@opinion.com wrote:

>In article <Vfr3g.1362$Gg.1319@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
>danapub2@weavemaker.com says...
>> "Adam" <anon@nowhere.com> wrote in message
>>
>
>We took a long look at a number of so called eCommerce packages before
>we set up our site.
>
>Our conclusion was nothing written in PHP even comes close to being
>vaguely acceptable.
>
>It just isnt a suitable language for that scale of software. There are in
>fact only a handfull of eCommerce packages even worthy of the name or
>even barely suitable for the task. Mostly they were so poor in every
>respect they were a joke.
>
>Others will dissagree I've no doubt but that was our conclusion in a
>nutshell.

Out of interest - apart from plain bad coding - what were the main
drawbacks? Security?

What did you go for in the end?

Adam.

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