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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

The major PITA I have found with osCommerce is the system of extending the
base functionality, since there are many things it does not do
out-of-the-box.

Lots of folks create great add-ons for the system, but they are not
modular--people, modify parts of the main application (php files). If you
use one add-on, not much of a problem, but if you want to use two, you have
to do a document comparison of any file they both alter, and manually merge
them. Good luck trying to use more than two. You have to go through the same
process to upgrade either add-on, or when there is an osCommerce upgrade.

After one project with osCommerce, we decided it was better to use a
commercial application.

David

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On 03/09/05 11:59 AM, "anilorac AT nc.rr.com" <anilorac AT nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Michael,
> 
> I'm checking with one of our tech analysts here at
> WebSourced/KeywordRanking.
> 
> Our clients use a lot of different carts.
> 
> I've heard ok and bad things about OSCommerce.
> 
> I'll forward Robert's recommendation in a bit.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan Smith
> 
> 
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Michael Czeiszperger michael AT czeiszperger.org
> Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:16:27 -0500
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [internetworkers] Shopping Cart Software Recommendations?
> 
> 
> I was wondering if anyone on the list had a recommendation for shopping
> cart software? I'm currently using MIVA Merchant, but since they use
> their own proprietary language its difficult to integrate with the rest
> of the site which is in PHP.  I'm looking for something with the
> following features:
> 
> Must Have:
> * Can integrate either into a PHP or JSP site
> * Can do live credit card processing
> * Either does or can be modified to do instant software purchases
> through license keys
> 
> The last time I looked at this was in 1999 and I suspect the field has
> changed quite a bit since then.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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