A solution for shopping cart

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Hi Friends ,
I am researching to find a good component (Mambo/Joomla) to bring and compatible it for Elxis

I think there are many Elxis users that they need to have a shopping cart component beside their site ...

So if you want to help us in this subject you can do any of the following subjects :

1- I am ready to support and pay for starting any project for this subject as a final GNU/GPL licensed component for Elxis (Elxis Team , Elxis Community , Others)
2- Making a bridge with a good known Shopping Cart (I am ready to pay for developing it too)
3- Help us to finding and researching a good component in order to bring and compatible with Elxis (Mambo/Joomla Components)
4- Tel us about components that you used in this subject and which component you love
5- I'm ready to work on any of above mentioned so if you interested too , you can participate in this subject too

Regards
Farhad

[Ivan Trebješanin]

count me in
I need some solution, too. However, I must say that I haven't found anything good so far.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Thank you Ivan , Could you please tell us about which matters you didn't find in which components?

[Ivan Trebješanin]

I have tested QuickCard, VirtueMart, Magneto, OScommerce... almost any thing that's free, but I didn't like any of them. OScommerce is almost good, but it's very hard to make template for it. Magneto has a good template system, but it seems a little heavy on the processor... I don't know this is very hard question.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

What about VirtueMart ?
Do you think it is better than others for this purpose?

[Ivan Trebješanin]

What about VirtueMart ?
Do you think it is better than for this purpose?

I have made it running on my localhost, but I am not ready to use it on some live site. There are too many files to be checked, so I rather use some standalone apps and show them trough a wrapper.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

If you think it will be good , I am ready to work on it ... I didn't check it

[Ivan Trebješanin]

OK, let's work together. Maybe we could create some SVN.

[rentasite]

These days i was going to take a look on these Open source  E-COMMERCE solutions. Here you go:

http://www.creloaded.com
http://www.oscommerce.com
http://www.zen-cart.com
http://www.magentocommerce.com
http://www.prestashop.com
http://cpcommerce.cpradio.org
http://www.openfreeway.org
http://www.phpshop.org
http://www.oscmax.com
http://www.osc2nuke.com
http://www.opencart.com
http://www.digistore.co.nz
http://virtuemart.net
http://www.bosscart.com
http://bakesalehq.com
http://www.mals-e.com
http://www.ubercart.org
http://www.fatfreecart.com
http://www.agoracart.com
http://www.storesprite.com

[Farhad Sakhaei]

Thank you supernet
I want that John help us to select a solution for this subject ,
So we have these 4 ways :

1- Bringing and compatible VirtueMart to Elxis
2- Create a bridge for Magento and install it beside Elxis
3- No action , Just Install Magento beside of Elxis and use it ...
4- Other undiscussed subject

I want other users to help us and give us infos about this subject and tell us their favorite requests

[CREATIVE Options]

I have to point, that I have install and use ALL most all the commerce solutions (open source and commercial spending a lot of money and time) searching the best one the last 3 years for my personal e-shop.

And I have select to setup my shop it with the Magento.

My first requirements was:
1. UTF-8
2. Secure (not only supporting SSL, but inside the core)
3. Easy change templates
4. Custom fields
5. Open box for how many pieces the customer need to buy (from 1 - 999999999 by typing the pieces)
6. Related products options

[Farhad Sakhaei]

What about writing a new component ? 
If John help us about Elxis core functions and their functionality , even if tell us that which functions do what ?
We can start to write this component and grow it every day 

[Ivan Trebješanin]

And I have select to setup my shop it with the Magento.

Tell us Sirigos, don't you have the same feeling about Magneto? I had an impression that it is slower then, eg. OScommerce.

[Farhad Sakhaei]

If we use Megneto , What about users? They should join in 2 parts? Elxis site part & shopping cart site ?
You don't need bridge ? 

I prefer VirtueMart ...

[Ivan Trebješanin]

You can use VM without visible problems, except for the user profiles, and some filemanager/eUTF implementation. It can be modified easily, but, I wonder what issues are hiding?