[thelist] x-cart any good?

[Dan McCullough]

Sorry for the rant.  But its the same discussion I have with other
client you get what you pay for if you get someone to develop your
cart or implement your cart.


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 08:53:27 -0500, Dan McCullough
<dan.mccullough at gmail.com> wrote:
> Most of these "free" carts are fine if you want to go with a cookie
> cutter or default design, the problem is if you want to get a
> customized design you run into a lot of problems with developers not
> delivering the design, and not delivering for the promised price.  We
> have a client that is on his 5 developer to implement a custom design
> into Interchange, which is a very good perl package.  Interchange is
> not that difficult its just that most of the inexpensive developers
> never learn how the software work, and then work within that
> framework.  We have has similar problems with developers working the
> designs into OSCommerce, FreeTrade and phpShop.  I ended up doing my
> own cart and stuff for her clients, but its not cheap.
> 
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:13:58 +0100, fstorr <fffrancis at fstorr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 30 Mar 2005, at 08:40, Jeroen Wijers wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe check Oscommerce too.....
> > > I know the organisation has not updated their Milestone version for a
> > > long time.... and are still busy with a new version,
> > > that should be released this year. www.oscommerce.org
> > > It is still a free, opensource descent and easy to adjust e-commerce
> > > package in php and mysql.
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Thanks for this.  I've installed a copy of OSCommerce locally but it
> > needs register_globals to be turned on to work - surely not a sensible
> > approach for an ecommerce environment?!  If it wasn't for that, I'd
> > probably go with it.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > F
> >
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