shopping site

hi. I need to create for someone a shopping site and I'm interested which is the best php script. I also need to create a template for the site change the colors font etc. I'veinstalled oscommerce and also found zend cart but i never tried the last one.

what do you suggest me?

Thank you

 

http://www.magentocommerce.com/ or http://www.prestashop.com/

if you want to do it right.

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

thank you. i've tried magento and it's very good but to sofisiticated for what i'm looging for. I'll try presta shop to see how it's working.

Thanks again

 

search on google for free shopping scripts you will definitely get something. Its my personal experince.

 

thanks . already done that. my problem is that i have to try them all untill I see which one is best. that's why I write on this forum.

I think presta shop is the best for what I'm looking for

 

Glad I could help. Prestashop is definitely easier to get your head around. Magento is a better option in terms of scalability and marketing. It does have a bit more of a learning curve though.

Nigel

 

Oscommerce is best

 

I keep hearing this about Magneto, although I've never tried it. I think it's a shame, I don't know why they'd go through the trouble of making such an amazing CMS and only making it usable by people who have a CS background.

 

What is a cs background? Magento is hands down the best enterprise level e-commerce system that is free and open source.

Nigel

 

go for oscommerce all the way...magento is not so good and stable too..also too much work to get it with as many modules as oscommerce

 

oscommerce is an utter trainwreck code wise, has virtually zero separation of logic bits from the design and totally blows to have to work with. To attempt to compare oscommerce to Magento is laughable at best.

Oscommerce is for noobs with no sense of branding, business models and wide range of other things.

please.....

Nigel

 

besides you might be a magento affiliate or stuff like that take a look at the trends
http://www.google.com/trends?q=oscommerce,+magento&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

and don't tell me about OSC..i've been working with it ever since it's up..and i don't do PHP..so please..it's the easiest to use and manipulate, while magento requires a tone of server requirements...let's not talk about bugs as well..when you say something or stand for make sure you have arguments..not just affiliate ideas

 

...... like I said. Magento is new. I am not an affiliate, we develop our own apps. We are talking about separating the men from the mice here. It is virtually impossible to design something proper with oscommerce.

And why do major brands use magento like http://www.homedics.com/ or any of the zillion other folks listed on their blog? You can't find many if any high end design firm using oscommerce for a reason.

I have had this conversation here way too many times to compile an 8 page list for you on why magento is a vastly superior product.


Nigel

 

have a look at this page:

http://onlinemarkhk.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html

 

cs = computer science

 

try Joomla Virtuemart

 

how about zencart, and x-cart?

 

hi. me again. thanks for all your usefull info. but now i have another question. how do i read conatct messages from back end in presta shop. i didn't find anything and i'm stack for almost 1 hour. thanks

 

I would normally build that script from scratch

 

yes. you're probably right. I've already start working. Thanks for the tip