ecommerce templates

[edmondscommerce]

working on an ecommerce templates site at the moment..

oh my god its awful..:(

do yourselves a favour and don't use ecommerce templates (the PHP version anyway, can't comment on the ASP version).

I didn't choose it by the way, the client chose the system.

[mehode]

True, ecommerce templates are cheap and buggy.
This has nothing to do with the programming language.

[chalkie99]

Assume you mean a template from ecommercetemplates.com?

Why is it awful and what problems are you having?

[edmondscommerce]

i have now completed this project thankfully

it has some major design flaws and is generally coded in a haphazard and overly complicated way with html, php and javascript all intertwined to such a degree that i thought my brain was going to melt

i have never seen another system that declares functions from within if(){}else{} blocks...

and i have never seen so many global variables being used inside functions.

If that doesn't mean anything to you just trust me when I say its awful to work with.

[chalkie99]

Well, you haven't actually answered the question but, assuming it is ecommercetemplates.com, I cannot really understand why you have had problems.

It is fully featured with a good manual and good support. I am not a web designer but have managed to build a couple of sites using this software without too much trouble and so have many others.

There are some really good sites built using this system which outshine most of the OSC and Zen examples I have seen so it is a bit unfair to make the unqualified staments in your first post on the basis that you haven't been unable to understand it.

[edmondscommerce]

Hi Chalkie

yes ecommercetemplates.com

Obviously your a fan so no offence intended..

I have definitely been able to understand it. I have been involved in this system as a developer - adding custom functionality including:



Max Mind Geo Targetting
Total currency system overhaul including currency based pricing (allowing a product to have a different price in different currencies, not just a converted price).
Proper currency conversion
VAT system (including VAT number verification via external site)
Heavy customisation of the cart / checkout process
Extra languages installation
Quantity pricing + currencies


Doing all this customisation meant that I have really been into the nuts and bolts of the system and so now regard myself as pretty qualified to comment on it.