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Posted by zdub on August 4, 2006, 5:46 am
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I've put together a few oscommerce sites, usually quite customized with
contributions. I now need to implement another ecommerce site and have found
oscommerce to fall a little short in some of the requirements that I need for
this site.
- Sophisticated search criteria such as can be seen at www.primewines.com. Not
easily done with oscommerce.
- It would be additionally nice to have search criteria dynamically created. If
I'm selling guns and butter, selecting the Guns category would not allow me to
select "Blue Bonnet" from the list of manufacturers. Newegg is a great example
of this, but I can't recall such a feature on off-the-shelf products.
- Ability to allow user to specify customization options for specific products
(e.g., name on a bracelet.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
- Different agreement boxes to order different products (e.g, some products
might require an over 18 checkbox; customized products would have a no refund
agreement.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
- Order editor (modify existing orders; add/delete products, modify charges,
addressee, etc.) oscommerce has a great Order Editor contribution; some
shopping carts don't have any way to modify an existing order
- Flexible discount coupons options, gift certificates.
The product should be based on Php/Linux and not Asp/Windows. I want to
purchase it and host it, rather than pay a subscription fee and/or use the
vendors host. Of course, it should be fully customizable (css, category and
product templates, etc). Search engine friendly.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
zdub
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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on August 4, 2006, 7:25 am
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zdub wrote:
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> I've put together a few oscommerce sites, usually quite customized with
> contributions. I now need to implement another ecommerce site and have found
> oscommerce to fall a little short in some of the requirements that I need for
> this site.
>
> - Sophisticated search criteria such as can be seen at www.primewines.com. Not
> easily done with oscommerce.
>
> - It would be additionally nice to have search criteria dynamically created. If
> I'm selling guns and butter, selecting the Guns category would not allow me to
> select "Blue Bonnet" from the list of manufacturers. Newegg is a great example
> of this, but I can't recall such a feature on off-the-shelf products.
>
> - Ability to allow user to specify customization options for specific products
> (e.g., name on a bracelet.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
>
> - Different agreement boxes to order different products (e.g, some products
> might require an over 18 checkbox; customized products would have a no refund
> agreement.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
>
> - Order editor (modify existing orders; add/delete products, modify charges,
> addressee, etc.) oscommerce has a great Order Editor contribution; some
> shopping carts don't have any way to modify an existing order
>
> - Flexible discount coupons options, gift certificates.
>
> The product should be based on Php/Linux and not Asp/Windows. I want to
> purchase it and host it, rather than pay a subscription fee and/or use the
> vendors host. Of course, it should be fully customizable (css, category and
> product templates, etc). Search engine friendly.
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
>
> zdub
>
>
>
Don't know of anything off the shelf which does all of that. I suspect
you'll have to roll your own to get all of those features.
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Posted by Marc Bissonnette on August 4, 2006, 9:46 am
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> zdub wrote:
>> I've put together a few oscommerce sites, usually quite customized
>> with contributions. I now need to implement another ecommerce site
>> and have found oscommerce to fall a little short in some of the
>> requirements that I need for this site.
>>
>> - Sophisticated search criteria such as can be seen at
>> www.primewines.com. Not easily done with oscommerce.
>>
>> - It would be additionally nice to have search criteria dynamically
>> created. If I'm selling guns and butter, selecting the Guns category
>> would not allow me to select "Blue Bonnet" from the list of
>> manufacturers. Newegg is a great example of this, but I can't recall
>> such a feature on off-the-shelf products.
>>
>> - Ability to allow user to specify customization options for specific
>> products (e.g., name on a bracelet.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
>>
>> - Different agreement boxes to order different products (e.g, some
>> products might require an over 18 checkbox; customized products would
>> have a no refund agreement.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
>>
>> - Order editor (modify existing orders; add/delete products, modify
>> charges, addressee, etc.) oscommerce has a great Order Editor
>> contribution; some shopping carts don't have any way to modify an
>> existing order
>>
>> - Flexible discount coupons options, gift certificates.
>>
>> The product should be based on Php/Linux and not Asp/Windows. I want
>> to purchase it and host it, rather than pay a subscription fee and/or
>> use the vendors host. Of course, it should be fully customizable
>> (css, category and product templates, etc). Search engine friendly.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
>>
>> zdub
>>
>>
>>
>
> Don't know of anything off the shelf which does all of that. I
> suspect you'll have to roll your own to get all of those features.
Yup, though none of his requests sound overly complex for perl/MySQL;
Just time-consuming to create. (Maybe a good part of a week of coding,
including testing, back-and-forth, etc)
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Marc Bissonnette
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Posted by Jamie on August 6, 2006, 12:59 am
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>- Sophisticated search criteria such as can be seen at www.primewines.com. Not
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>- It would be additionally nice to have search criteria dynamically created. If
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>- Ability to allow user to specify customization options for specific products
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>- Different agreement boxes to order different products (e.g, some products
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>- Order editor (modify existing orders; add/delete products, modify charges,
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>- Flexible discount coupons options, gift certificates.
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I'd add my voice to those who say just role your own. (in perl over PHP if
possible/practical)
The hardest part (and one that perhaps you can cut corners on if possible) will
be the backend stuff. Adding products, options, orders, what-not. Try to get this
as minimal as possible.
It might also serve you to keep the catalog functions distinct, IE: when seeking
out a cart, look for searching tools, online catalog tools, etc.. If you can
find such a package that isn't a shopping cart, a big part of the puzzle is
already done. (maybe a directory list package of some sort? originally designed,
for example, to list URL's, MP3's, photos or other things?)
If you have a directory that works as a catalog, you can design a system with a
base class representing a generic product and a set of classes representing the
various types of products. When you add a product to the cart, have some kind
of method to show the agreement form, but, leave it a stub method for generic
"non-agreement" products so the rest of the logic doesn't need to know about it.
Problem with pre-canned off the shelf software is that it tries to be all things
to all people. (saddly, we're seeing that happen with linux "desktop
applications"
too.)
Jamie
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Posted by nsales on August 7, 2006, 8:54 am
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zdub wrote:
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> I've put together a few oscommerce sites, usually quite customized with
> contributions. I now need to implement another ecommerce site and have found
> oscommerce to fall a little short in some of the requirements that I need for
> this site.
> - Sophisticated search criteria such as can be seen at www.primewines.com. Not
> easily done with oscommerce.
> - It would be additionally nice to have search criteria dynamically created. If
> I'm selling guns and butter, selecting the Guns category would not allow me to
> select "Blue Bonnet" from the list of manufacturers. Newegg is a great example
> of this, but I can't recall such a feature on off-the-shelf products.
> - Ability to allow user to specify customization options for specific products
> (e.g., name on a bracelet.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
> - Different agreement boxes to order different products (e.g, some products
> might require an over 18 checkbox; customized products would have a no refund
> agreement.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
> - Order editor (modify existing orders; add/delete products, modify charges,
> addressee, etc.) oscommerce has a great Order Editor contribution; some
> shopping carts don't have any way to modify an existing order
> - Flexible discount coupons options, gift certificates.
> The product should be based on Php/Linux and not Asp/Windows. I want to
> purchase it and host it, rather than pay a subscription fee and/or use the
> vendors host. Of course, it should be fully customizable (css, category and
> product templates, etc). Search engine friendly.
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
> zdub
Our EZCat shopping system can do all of the above. Take a look at
www.ezcat.com for more information.
Hope this helps,
Jon
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> contributions. I now need to implement another ecommerce site and have found
> oscommerce to fall a little short in some of the requirements that I need for
> this site.
>
> - Sophisticated search criteria such as can be seen at www.primewines.com. Not
> easily done with oscommerce.
>
> - It would be additionally nice to have search criteria dynamically created. If
> I'm selling guns and butter, selecting the Guns category would not allow me to
> select "Blue Bonnet" from the list of manufacturers. Newegg is a great example
> of this, but I can't recall such a feature on off-the-shelf products.
>
> - Ability to allow user to specify customization options for specific products
> (e.g., name on a bracelet.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
>
> - Different agreement boxes to order different products (e.g, some products
> might require an over 18 checkbox; customized products would have a no refund
> agreement.) Not easily done with oscommerce.
>
> - Order editor (modify existing orders; add/delete products, modify charges,
> addressee, etc.) oscommerce has a great Order Editor contribution; some
> shopping carts don't have any way to modify an existing order
>
> - Flexible discount coupons options, gift certificates.
>
> The product should be based on Php/Linux and not Asp/Windows. I want to
> purchase it and host it, rather than pay a subscription fee and/or use the
> vendors host. Of course, it should be fully customizable (css, category and
> product templates, etc). Search engine friendly.
>
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
>
> zdub
>
>
>