[thelist] x-cart vs zen-cart
Hershel Robinson
hershelr at netvision.net.il
Tue Jul 5 08:46:43 CDT 2005
Based on advice from this list I chose x-cart for an e-store I recently
built. The back-end seems to be very professional with all the (and even
more) features than the average small e-store would ever need.
The front-end (produced HTML) however is, in a word, horrific. It's
1999-era HTML coding IMHO.
Customizing the front end, however, I found to be actually fairly easy.
Once I figured out how things work and found the correct files,
customizing certain parts was a snap (knowing PHP helps of course).
I am looking at building another store now and I thought to ask again
about zen-cart and people's experiences with it.
I understand the down-side to zen-cart is the lack of support
(open-source, where you pay with your sanity) whereas the upside is the
front-end code. I also imagine that the back-end code is not as mature
as x-cart, which also is a negative.
With my (very) limited knowledge of these two options, I would say
x-cart is probably overall a better choice, because when push comes to
shove, if it doesn't work, it's not worth anything. x-cart works and if
not, they have support, whereas zen-cart apparently may or may not work.
Anyone have anything more intelligent to share in comparing zen-cart vs
x-cart?
Thanks,
Hershel
More information about the thelist
mailing list