Suggestions for an e-commerce application

Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
e-commerce application.
We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet people's
needs as much as possible.
What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts such
as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like, what
features are missing, what kind of database and programming language you
like most, etc.
The software will be 100% CSS driven for more consistency, flexibility and
speed.
It would help me a lot too if you could give me examples of the best
e-commerce applications and shopping carts to date.
Also if you know of very nice e-commerce web sites, or oustanding online
stores in terms of layout and usability, I'm interested.
Thank you.

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- Make that support for MySql and PostgreSQL
- all the html has to be xhtml ofcourse

Rastin

Rastin Mehr | rmd Studio wrote:
> I like to see:
>
> - XML-RPC communication between server side and client side
> - DHTML interfaces
> - functions that receive xml and create html forms on the fly, that
> makes it easy to add modules and new interfaces to the system.
> - Ability to direct Flash interfaces to the XML_RPC and interact with it.
> - keeping all the config files as xml files not native programing
> language data structures.
> - object oriented approach, forget about procedural web scripting
> - I'd prefer PHP, and MySql of course
> - for the love of Software Engineering keep a real Graphic Designer in
> your team as well.
>
>
> you'd probably want to have a look at the http://www.mamboserver.com/ it
> has pretty nice architecture, I am more interested in their upcoming
> version 5
>
> good luck,
>
> Rastin
>
>
> Kerberos wrote:
>
>> Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
>> e-commerce application.
>> We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet
>> people's needs as much as possible.
>> What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts
>> such as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like,
>> what features are missing, what kind of database and programming
>> language you like most, etc.
>> The software will be 100% CSS driven for more consistency, flexibility
>> and speed.
>> It would help me a lot too if you could give me examples of the best
>> e-commerce applications and shopping carts to date.
>> Also if you know of very nice e-commerce web sites, or oustanding
>> online stores in terms of layout and usability, I'm interested.
>> Thank you.
>>
>

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On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:54:56 -0200, Kerberos wrote:

> Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
> e-commerce application.
> We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet people's
> needs as much as possible.
> What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts such
> as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like, what
> features are missing, what kind of database and programming language you
> like most, etc.
> The software will be 100% CSS driven for more consistency, flexibility and
> speed.
> It would help me a lot too if you could give me examples of the best
> e-commerce applications and shopping carts to date.
> Also if you know of very nice e-commerce web sites, or oustanding online
> stores in terms of layout and usability, I'm interested.
> Thank you.


You want to top OSCommerce? Build a store software that behaves like
Amazon. Good luck!


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Kerberos wrote:

> Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
> e-commerce application.
> We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet
> people's needs as much as possible.
> What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts
> such as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like,
> what features are missing, what kind of database and programming
> language you like most, etc.
> The software will be 100% CSS driven for more consistency, flexibility
> and speed.
> It would help me a lot too if you could give me examples of the best
> e-commerce applications and shopping carts to date.
> Also if you know of very nice e-commerce web sites, or oustanding
> online stores in terms of layout and usability, I'm interested.
> Thank you.

Make it work with multiple database backends. At a bare minimum you
should test and support MySQL and Postgres.

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I like to see:

- XML-RPC communication between server side and client side
- DHTML interfaces
- functions that receive xml and create html forms on the fly, that
makes it easy to add modules and new interfaces to the system.
- Ability to direct Flash interfaces to the XML_RPC and interact with it.
- keeping all the config files as xml files not native programing
language data structures.
- object oriented approach, forget about procedural web scripting
- I'd prefer PHP, and MySql of course
- for the love of Software Engineering keep a real Graphic Designer in
your team as well.


you'd probably want to have a look at the http://www.mamboserver.com/ it
has pretty nice architecture, I am more interested in their upcoming
version 5

good luck,

Rastin


Kerberos wrote:
> Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
> e-commerce application.
> We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet
> people's needs as much as possible.
> What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts
> such as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like,
> what features are missing, what kind of database and programming
> language you like most, etc.
> The software will be 100% CSS driven for more consistency, flexibility
> and speed.
> It would help me a lot too if you could give me examples of the best
> e-commerce applications and shopping carts to date.
> Also if you know of very nice e-commerce web sites, or oustanding
> online stores in terms of layout and usability, I'm interested.
> Thank you.
>

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Kerberos wrote:
> Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
> e-commerce application.
> We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet
> people's needs as much as possible.
> What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts
> such as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like,
> what features are missing, what kind of database and programming
> language you like most, etc.

Google alt.www.webmaster for most of my osCommerce comments.

The one bad thing is that if you're using Paypal or another payment service
that requires the visitor to leave your cart, the order isn't placed into the
database until AFTER the visitor returns from the cart.


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In article <196kvrnv9qh2z$.gfquqn3ajbc$.dlg@40tude.net>,
Karim <karim3411@!!yahoo!!.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 15:54:56 -0200, Kerberos wrote:
>
> > Starting January we're going to work on an open-source project of
> > e-commerce application.
> > We're going to do some research to raise ideas and to try to meet people's
> > needs as much as possible.
> > What I'd like you to do is give me your opinion about shopping carts such
> > as osCommerce, and tell me what you like, what you don't like, what
> > features are missing, what kind of database and programming language you
> > like most, etc.
> > The software will be 100% CSS driven for more consistency, flexibility and
> > speed.
> > It would help me a lot too if you could give me examples of the best
> > e-commerce applications and shopping carts to date.
> > Also if you know of very nice e-commerce web sites, or oustanding online
> > stores in terms of layout and usability, I'm interested.
> > Thank you.
>

Anything better than Miva.

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