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Shopping carts: Your take

  • Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • Hello Rocketthem-ers. Our company is looking into renovating our website and shopping application.
      We are looking into two options
      • asp.net shopping cart
      • or php shopping cart
      Please share your experience. Opensource of paid is fine (preferably under $1000). Added features like CRM, Inventory tracking, etc.. would be really good. And ease of skinning and language switching as well.
      Thankyou.
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    Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
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    Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • Virtuemart, hands down.

      virtuemart.net/

      there are honestly too many advantages to list.
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    Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • There's only one problem with Virtuemart... and this is the most crucial factor in a webshop IMO:

      It's ugly and difficult to skin. (no flames please people.. i said difficult, not impossible)

      if Virtuemart doesn't work for you, try OSCommerce. OSC looks better and is much easier to skin, but isn't as powerful as Virtuemart.
    • Say no to Internet Explorer 6.
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  • Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • Virtuemart 1.1 is EASY to skin. It has a template system, having files name *.tpl.php and the templates are pretty much the same as joomla templates. Here is some code from a file called minicart.tpl.php from vm 1.1 that is the template file for your shopping cart module.
      <?php defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
       
      if($empty_cart) { ?>
      &nbsp; &nbsp; 
      &nbsp; &nbsp; <div align="right">
      &nbsp; &nbsp; <?php if(!$vmMinicart) { ?>
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href='index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.cart' target='_blank'>
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="<?php echo $mm_action_url ?>../templates/temp_softener/images/Shoppingcarts/Cart_1_Green.png" alt="Shopping Cart" width="32" border="0" ></a>
      <div class="cartmsg">
      &nbsp; &nbsp; <?php } echo $VM_LANG->_PHPSHOP_EMPTY_CART ?>
      </div>
      &nbsp; &nbsp; </div>
      <?php } 
      else {
      &nbsp; &nbsp; // Loop through each row and build the table
      &nbsp; &nbsp; foreach( $minicart as $cart ) {
      &nbsp;            
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; foreach( $cart as $attr => $val ) {
                     // Using this we make all the variables available in the template
                     // translated example: $this->set( 'product_name', $product_name );
                     $this->set( $attr, $val );
                }
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; if(!$vmMinicart) { // Build Minicart
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; ?> 
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <?php echo $cart['attributes'];
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; }
      &nbsp; &nbsp; }
      }
      if(!$vmMinicart) { ?>
      <div align="right">
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href='index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.cart&product_id=1' target='_blank'>
      &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="<?php echo $mm_action_url ?>../templates/temp_softener/images/Shoppingcarts/Cart_1_Green-Full.png" alt="Shopping Cart" width="32" border="0" ></a>
      </div>
      <?php } ?>
      <div class="cartmsg2">
      <?php echo $total_products ?>
      </div>
      <?php if (!$empty_cart && !$vmMinicart) { ?>
      &nbsp; &nbsp; <?php echo $show_cart ?>
      <?php } ?>

      I've done a lot of modification to it, and it's been just as easy as joomla templates. I also saw a post on here somewhere that rockethteme will most likely be making virtuemart templates also. So hopefully vm 1.1 is released soon!:)

      Sad thing is, I was using 1.1 and had all my looks set up just right because of how easy it is with the new template system, but later realized, as I was testing out actually buying an item through my shop, that the functionality of it is DEFINITELY still in beta. So I had to drop back down to vm 1.0.10, and am having a tough time trying to get my cart to look like it did in 1.1 without that template file:(

      Anyways, my 2 cents,
      David Henderson
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    Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • Yup William is correct. Andy will release Virtuemart theme packs after the next version is release.
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  • Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • Thanks guys. Tried VM before and it puts me off because of its look. And the support is not that great either.
      Anyways, have any one tried a .net shop?
  • Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
  • Re: Shopping carts: Your take

    Posted 18 years 4 weeks ago
    • As for the support not being great on virtuemart, have you tried using their forum? I have never had any issue with getting answers there. I'd say rockettheme and virtuemarts forums are 2 of the best I've ever used as far as intelligent answers and speed of response goes. The developers there at VM are constantly monitoring the forums for new posts, gregdev and maccallf (mark) always answer any questions I post on the forums there within a day. So if you haven't tried VM lately, gve it another try, and DEFINITELY as soon as vm 1.1 has a final release, virtuemart will be the the ecommerce solution to be using!

      Thanks,
      David Henderson

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