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[John Nunez]

Ajai,

I agree osCommerce is a pain to alter.  I have made so many changes 
that I think it would have been easier to just re-write it.  But then 
all the modules would not work. Interchange looks good but my perl 
skills stinks.

How are the features of Mambo w/ phpshop when compared to osCommerce?

osCommerce features needed:
Top selling items, newsletters, categories and a few other.

New features needed:
Manufacturer Mini Stores (just pages listing manufacturer's products 
with a different template), backend security with Groups and tons of 
other stuff my boss will come up with midway through this project.

Thanks,
John Nunez

On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote:

> Chris Shiflett wrote:
>
>> I've never looked at any of these things, but I've heard OScommerce
>> mentioned a few times recently. It's not obvious to me what this 
>> software
>> does by visiting their site. Is it just a content management and 
>> shopping
>> cart thing, or does it have more sophisticated support for payment
>> processing and such?
>>
>> There seem to be all of these common problem spaces where someone 
>> needs to
>> write a solution that doesn't suck. I'm wondering if this is yet 
>> another
>> one.
>>
>
> Yes it is! ;-)
>
> I built a prototype site with OSC and found it to be a real hairball.
>
> And the last time I used Interchange it required Postgres and used a 
> lot of Perl.
>
> Right now, Mambo with the phpshop component is the only decent thing 
> Ive found.
>
> (Xaraya is an excellent framework too but alas they have no ecommerce 
> components yet...).
>
> -- 
> Aj.
> Systems Administrator / Developer
>
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