Shopping Cart recommendations

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far. The
one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned somehow.
I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers, it's terrible.
So... I don't know, if you have recommendations, they're welcome. I prefer
open-source software, and preferably with support for Brazilian Portuguese.
Thanks,

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"Kerberos" <me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far. The
one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned somehow.
I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers, it's terrible.
So... I don't know, if you have recommendations, they're welcome. I prefer
open-source software, and preferably with support for Brazilian
Portuguese.
Thanks,

I'd personally recommend hand coding.....Whichever server side scripting
language you prefer to work in.....
I've built countless shopping carts in th epast using ASP, and to be honest,
it's a lot easier than most people realise.....And it has the advantage that
the end product is 100% tailored to your needs....It's coded from the ground
up with your needs in mind....An off the shelf package will always feel
somewhat *shoehorned* to fit your needs.....

"Kerberos" <me (AT) privacy (DOT) net> wrote

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far. The
one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned somehow.
I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers, it's terrible.
So... I don't know, if you have recommendations, they're welcome. I prefer
open-source software, and preferably with support for Brazilian
Portuguese.
Thanks,

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http://www.freebsd.org

I like Dansie:

http://www.dansie.net/cgi-bin/referral.pl?id=amcy.org

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:01:25 -0200, Kerberos wrote:

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far. The
one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned somehow.
I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers, it's terrible.
So... I don't know, if you have recommendations, they're welcome. I prefer
open-source software, and preferably with support for Brazilian Portuguese.
Thanks,

Abandoned? How did you come to this conclusion? osCommerce has a community
in the thousands.


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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:01:25 -0200, Kerberos wrote:

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far. The
one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned somehow.
I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers, it's terrible.
So... I don't know, if you have recommendations, they're welcome. I prefer
open-source software, and preferably with support for Brazilian Portuguese.
Thanks,

What' missing in osCommerce that you need continuing support for?


Karim

Kerberos wrote:

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far.
The one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned
somehow.

How do you figure? Judging from the newsbytes on the left side of the homepage,
the project is still alive and kicking. If you have some questions, I'm a
longtime osC user and can probably answer them for you (email me offlist).

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A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far.
The one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned
somehow. I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers,
it's terrible. So... I don't know, if you have recommendations,
they're welcome. I prefer open-source software, and preferably with
support for Brazilian Portuguese. Thanks,

I'd personally recommend hand coding.....Whichever server side
scripting language you prefer to work in.....
I've built countless shopping carts in th epast using ASP, and to be
honest, it's a lot easier than most people realise.....And it has the
advantage that the end product is 100% tailored to your needs....It's
coded from the ground up with your needs in mind....An off the shelf
package will always feel somewhat *shoehorned* to fit your needs.....

Amen to that ... and you can do it with session cookies or db and
querystring.

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Adrienne wrote:

I'd personally recommend hand coding.....Whichever server side
scripting language you prefer to work in.....

Amen to that ... and you can do it with session cookies or db and
querystring.

Especially as ready-made solutions can impose limitations. I just downloaded
OScommerce to give it a try and failed at the first hurdle. It seems it
won't run unless register_globals is ON - which is considered a Bad Thing
from a security perspective...

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Kerberos wrote:

A customer wants me to implement a shopping cart to sell law books.
I have done a research, but didn't find a killing application so far.
The one I found best was osCommerce, but the project seems abandonned
somehow. I also found ZenCart, but it won't work with all browsers,
it's terrible.
So... I don't know, if you have recommendations, they're welcome. I
prefer open-source software, and preferably with support for Brazilian
Portuguese.
Thanks,

Hi there,
You could give cubecart a look - its pretty good, and easy to modify to
suit your own needs.
Cheers
Pete

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