Comments on: OSCommerce vs. Zen-Cart part II http://webpodge.com/2007/03/20/oscommerce-vs-zen-cart-part-ii/ the web publisher's utility belt Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:31:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Karen Anderson http://webpodge.com/2007/03/20/oscommerce-vs-zen-cart-part-ii/#comment-17127 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:57:22 +0000 http://webpodge.com/2007/03/20/oscommerce-vs-zen-cart-part-ii/#comment-17127 Hi I came across your note about why you chose occommerce, and you mention documentation - where can one get documentation? thanks Karen Hi

I came across your note about why you chose occommerce, and you mention documentation - where can one get documentation?

thanks
Karen

]]> by: Greg http://webpodge.com/2007/03/20/oscommerce-vs-zen-cart-part-ii/#comment-15948 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:25:22 +0000 http://webpodge.com/2007/03/20/oscommerce-vs-zen-cart-part-ii/#comment-15948 I have been using OsCommerce for about a year now. When I was choosing carts, I could not really see what made Zen Cart so much better. After getting experience with OsCommerce, the advantages of Zen Cart are more apparent. If you compare the common files between the two packages, they noticably similar, but they have some stark differences. For one, there are a lot useful of changes to the organization of the code. Zen Cart has streamlined the order.php class by moving code in from other files so that order.php handles all order function. Interaction with MySQL is handled by an object instead of tep_whatever functions. The payment modules are also better, and come pre-built to record gateway response information -though I will build it to write to a different table. I had to do a lot of modification to OsCommerce to get it to do discounts, and Zen Cart has that pre-built. The HTML in OsCommerce is a little bit archaic, which was alright for me, but I have since gotten used to using XHTML and CSS which I find to be much more powerful. In hindsight, if I would have known these things before hand, I would have used Zen Cart from the beginning. I have been using OsCommerce for about a year now. When I was choosing carts, I could not really see what made Zen Cart so much better. After getting experience with OsCommerce, the advantages of Zen Cart are more apparent. If you compare the common files between the two packages, they noticably similar, but they have some stark differences. For one, there are a lot useful of changes to the organization of the code. Zen Cart has streamlined the order.php class by moving code in from other files so that order.php handles all order function. Interaction with MySQL is handled by an object instead of tep_whatever functions. The payment modules are also better, and come pre-built to record gateway response information -though I will build it to write to a different table. I had to do a lot of modification to OsCommerce to get it to do discounts, and Zen Cart has that pre-built. The HTML in OsCommerce is a little bit archaic, which was alright for me, but I have since gotten used to using XHTML and CSS which I find to be much more powerful. In hindsight, if I would have known these things before hand, I would have used Zen Cart from the beginning.

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