Shopping Carts/Commerce

Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken site
I have tried to get up and running.

I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.

Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....

Steve

steveUK no_email@everagain.com wrote:
> Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken site
> I have tried to get up and running.
>
> I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
> emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.
>
> Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....
>

X Cart?

<http://www.x-cart.com/>

Depends on the site though.

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"

steveUK wrote:
> Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken site
> I have tried to get up and running.
>
> I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
> emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.
>
> Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....

I love it. http://store.dirtylinen.com/ is a recent project of mine, a rather
heavily-modified osC installation (the client wanted a lot of custom stuff done

Very extensible, not hard at all to get support through the forums, and just in
general a well-written piece of software.

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On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 0151 -0000, "steveUK" <no_email@everagain.com>
wrote:

>Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken site
>I have tried to get up and running.
>
>I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
>emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.
>
>Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....
>
>Steve
>

www.oscommerce.com is great stuff. Go for it.

"zeebop" <yeah@um.right> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 0151 -0000, "steveUK" <no_email@everagain.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken
site
> >I have tried to get up and running.
> >
> >I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
> >emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.
> >
> >Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....
> >
> >Steve
> >
>
> www.oscommerce.com is great stuff. Go for it.

Does anybody know how it compares to Miva?

- SG

Steve Sobol wrote:

> steveUK wrote:
>> Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken
>> site I have tried to get up and running.
>>
>> I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
>> emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.
>>
>> Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....
>
> I love it. http://store.dirtylinen.com/ is a recent project of mine, a
> rather heavily-modified osC installation (the client wanted a lot of
> custom stuff done
>
> Very extensible, not hard at all to get support through the forums, and
> just in general a well-written piece of software.

Unfortunately almost all osCommerce sites look exactly the same because the
code and template are mixed up together far too much, whereas it should use
some sort of templating system where at the very least you can specify a
page header and footer to make it look nice.

I did exactly this with this site http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/ and
although it doesn't use a lot of the features of osCommerce it actually
looks nice. Took a lot of work but it was worth it. I'm not so sure I'll
use osCommerce again. The database structure is pretty good but I'm not so
sure the code behind it is all that hot.

--
Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:52:23 +1300, Chris Hope
<blackhole@electrictoolbox.com> wrote:

>Steve Sobol wrote:
>
>> steveUK wrote:
>>> Many thanks to everyone that has been advising me on this god forsaken
>>> site I have tried to get up and running.
>>>
>>> I have been advised to use the Mals Cart (Ithink)....but someone has just
>>> emailed me and recommended to use www.OsCommerce.com software.
>>>
>>> Which, in anyones opinion would be the better software....
>>
>> I love it. http://store.dirtylinen.com/ is a recent project of mine, a
>> rather heavily-modified osC installation (the client wanted a lot of
>> custom stuff done
>>
>> Very extensible, not hard at all to get support through the forums, and
>> just in general a well-written piece of software.
>
>Unfortunately almost all osCommerce sites look exactly the same because the
>code and template are mixed up together far too much, whereas it should use
>some sort of templating system where at the very least you can specify a
>page header and footer to make it look nice.
>
>I did exactly this with this site http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/ and
>although it doesn't use a lot of the features of osCommerce it actually
>looks nice. Took a lot of work but it was worth it. I'm not so sure I'll
>use osCommerce again. The database structure is pretty good but I'm not so
>sure the code behind it is all that hot.

If you want to see some OsCommerce templates, checkout here:
http://www.oscoders.biz/