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looking for a CI based PHP Storefront
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[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
I know of no already existing storefront/ecommerce solution built on CI, though I sure would like one.

One thing I can say though, is handling custom payments to gateway is way easier than it sounds. Generally I find they want XML post-backs and such, which you just use CI's curl and XML libraries for. Took ahwhile to figure it out, but once I had those tools it was just a few days to get it working.

The big advantage you have is you don't need to build payment handling for every supported feature of the gateway.

Now, if you just want a basic shop I think you might just want to...go ahead. For sorting them into sets of 12, look at the pagination class in CI. Look at Image Manipulation class for thumbnailing, File Upload for uploading photos of products if you want (you can just use FTP with naming conventions like item 1001 automatically looks for an image named 1001.jpg - one less bit of code to write)...and for handling the purchase if you want really simple just use PayPal Pro. It's not a bad thing to use someone else's cart to start with, and you can always write your own later and just keep PayPal for purchasing.

For inventory management PayPal offers "Instant Payment Notification" with a pretty easy to understand syntax, and if you are happy with PayPal's built in order notification and you don't need inventory management then hey - less for you to code!

Basic ecommerce isn't hard at all - its building a "ecommerce solution" that takes years because they are bloated with so much crap it takes months of training on them just to use a tenth of what is available.


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looking for a CI based PHP Storefront - by El Forum - 09-18-2009, 01:54 AM
looking for a CI based PHP Storefront - by El Forum - 09-18-2009, 02:02 AM
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looking for a CI based PHP Storefront - by El Forum - 09-18-2009, 02:55 AM
looking for a CI based PHP Storefront - by El Forum - 09-18-2009, 03:06 AM
looking for a CI based PHP Storefront - by El Forum - 09-18-2009, 11:23 AM
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looking for a CI based PHP Storefront - by El Forum - 09-20-2009, 03:16 PM
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