Hi, As you can see that this is my first post and was wondering what is the situation with yii and eccomerce?
Are there any mature solutions available?
Years past I used oscommerce/zen/CRE and recently am using opencart.
Even though I think opencart is really it, I am planning to go beyond that with more functionality for my site and would rather not try to bridge/piece together various parts like forums, mailing lists, etc …
So, I started looking for a more mature framework to either port opencart to or deal with what is available here.
Hmmm, 123k is pretty awesome for size but I’m thinking of a full blown Magneto contender.
oscommerce and zen are just too bloated and Magneto is well, based on zend for all it’s strengths and weaknesses.
I’ve open up Magneto and installed it. I was simply amazed by the sheer size, number of files, and how it was relatively slow on my development machine compared to other default installs I did for other carts.
Has the yii community already built there own solutions or is a cart just not high on priorities?
I don’t know of any e-commerce solutions based on Yii, maybe Google could give you a start. I think everyone is developing his/her own shop.
Magento is fricking slow, It has many functionalities at the expense of speed. The endless class inheritance, large xml based configs, … Though it is very good on the users side, It’s a developers nightmare … believe me. No documentation, It is very hard to develop custom solutions.
I havn’t seen a decent Yii based shopping cart, but mind you that would be quite an undertaking! If you’re looking for something more or less easy to customize and similar in programming style to Yii, I would suggest OpenCart. It’s relatively well structured and better than starting from scratch. You could also look into something like PrestaShop perhaps, but when I cracked open the code of PrestaShop I didn’t particularly like it. The downside with OpenCart is that it hasn’t got a lot of features one would want. In the end it shouldn’t be too hard to knock up a basic shopping cart in Yii, but if you want a ready-made store than you’ll need to look elsewhere atm.
Tomato, was interesting for the first 5 minutes and then realized can’t really run the backend on a laptop. Besides, having an oscommerce core.
I will not go back to oscommerce. Nothing has really changed since 2003.
As for zen, … long story. I haven’t even download anything from them since the internal beta.
I am pretty deep in opencart at the moment and the organization of the directories is great, the system is relatively snappy and 1.5 is on the way.
However, as stated above, some things are missing. Functionality wise 1.5 should put it pretty close to Magento and others.
I am looking at the framework at the moment. I do like it but it is stopped at the cart level. I’d like to go beyond that hence coming to yii. Which, I did do due diligence and just liked what I’ve been reading across the net. Having forums was also a factor.
I looked at prestashop but it’s not MVC, and is very Smarty-intensive, and I said blech after 15 minutes of looking at the code.
Agree with what others say about Magento and won’t go near it.
Downloaded OpenCart and so far it seems like the only candidate. While the code isn’t nearly so elegantly organized as it would be if done in Yii, it does at least use MVC. Looks very featureful (is that true–some folks above said OpenCart is missing a lot of features). Another big plus is the number of templates available for it.
Does anyone have first-hand experience building ecommerce web apps with OpenCart? Or with another open-source, MVC solution? I don’t believe there’s a Yii-based ecommerce solution out there yet which is robust enough for my needs.
Hi, how to install yiiShop? i follow install.txt in the docx folder, but i don’t understand step 3.) run <webapp_url>/shop/install in your Web Browser. <webapp_url> means what?
Bridging is normally just a patch to problem. You might as well run to separate directories and 2 admin panels because that is how it’s going to feel anyway. Simpler too
We are looking to build a flexible, featured ecommerce website for a client, and we are contemplating yii as the framework, after having worked with various ready-made scripts (opencart included, lacking an intelligent plugin system).
Magento is the best platform of e-commerce. Say no more. . Yii is fast. But when your e-commerce site is more bigger, are you sure you can optimize your code to help your site run faster? I think Magento is smart when it was young. .
I developed a mysql/xml based solution called xoBase, and I’ve been moving parts of that system into Yii. It has some interesting concepts for product catalogs that dovetail really well with Yii. This system is still in use by some major sites, and its time for a total rewrite. I thought Yii would be a good framework to build it on.
I need 3-4 people who can work together remotely to bring the project to a speedy head,and get it out there as an open sourced project.
One of the things it has to do is dovetail with Zurmo.