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Shiva
xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/14 14:20

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Is anyone using XOOPS for e-commerce successfully?
Can we use this area to review some of the modules?
Namely: Zencart, oscommerce, bookshop
Which is better? Is bookshop worth the money?
Are they secure?
If XOOPS is not the best CMS for this then perhaps someone is using something else that they would like to recommend?

Thank you for your time.
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damaster
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/14 14:51

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Difficult to point out some exemples due to XOOPS and modules vulnerabilities.

There's some development around zendcart (JP)
Oscommerce was not fixed nor uptodated.
I got a clone of bookshop 1 year ago but
to many bugs to fix and no update either

Too bad, cubecart as changed its license.
Still Virtuemart and Community Builder to
extend joomla.

Most recent in open source is Roy's project.
He has starded a new ecommerce solution named
Magento - it's evolving and community growing
quite fast. PHP, MySQL and Smarty with a nice
User Interface, that i'm sure you will enjoy.
It's also a modular architecture and easily
extensible. It's open source - Free !

Have Fun
I like people more than machines or money. But that's me!
Lets do something good and great: Lets do open source!
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Shiva
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/14 15:49

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I am providing an ecommerce solution to a client, so the solution has to be reliable, secure and scaleable. So it's hard to know which to go for.

It would be ideal to combine it with XOOPS as I know it so well now. And combining e-commerce with a CMS in general is certainly very powerful.

I suppose an alternative would be to use subdomains: one for a shop and one for the CMS side of things. And maybe this could be improved by using openID.

Any more ideas anyone?
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Mamba
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/14 16:03

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Try Bookshop from InstantZero:

http://xoops.instant-zero.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=12
Support XOOPS => DONATE
Use 2.5.10 | Docs | Modules | Bugs
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damaster
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/15 8:25

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Only zendcart is being updated and fixed but
there's a few things to translate from japanese.

Other XOOPS "solutions" are not secure
oscommerce or bookshop have no support
and still amateurish work with critical
bugs to fix.

Magento is developed by a team of professionals
and it uses smarty has render. You can easily use
it as CMS as well. And why not bridge it with Xigg ^^

Forget OpenID. It is not a secure solution for Biz
or keep it installed with XOOPS in a restricted subdomain

Have Fun

I like people more than machines or money. But that's me!
Lets do something good and great: Lets do open source!
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hervet
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/15 8:36

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yes, it's true, I did not give support to people who threaten me personally or professionally.
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Anonymous
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/15 8:43

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Quote:
Damaster wrote:

Other XOOPS "solutions" are not secure oscommerce or bookshop have no support and still amateurish work with critical bugs to fix.


Hmmmm..... I find it difficult to believe that I-Z provide no support for bookshop.

Can you quantify the "critical bugs"?

The "amateurish to work with" seems to be your subjective view. Something more constructive as to improvements might be appreciated.

As you say, have fun.
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damaster
Re: xoops as a ecommerce solution

  • 2008/5/15 11:35

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@JAVesey

Bookshop is a 'commercial' module.
it supposes you have to pay for it,
don't you think?

And i also say there was not support
nor update for a year (so, never used in production)

As you can read above, that was confirmed by Hervet.
Fun, i bought is module helping his business
and it's me having no support but "threaten" !?
Yep, very professional indeed


Since it's also GPL, maybe i should release it to
the community, to fix it and make some improvements.

PHP is easy to learn. Even you don't have
programming skills/education it's simple to
develop and create your business.

Do you think it is inevitably associated to 'professional' and 'quality' or security?
That's also why PHP is for long considered as an amateurish language compared to C ou Java. Read more about it here!

Have Fun

I like people more than machines or money. But that's me!
Lets do something good and great: Lets do open source!

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