Wednesday 29 June 2011

Ecommerce website development in PHP with Open Source Solutions

Choosing Shopping Cart SoftwareIn this article we are reviewing open source PHP-based e-commerce solutions. PHP was chosen as there are many such e-commerce solutions available and are cheap to modify. By using an open source solution that you did not reinvent the wheel and find everything to build all these solutions can be tailored to your online store provides a unique look.

Statistics show that odesk.com Magento osCommerce grown much faster than in the last 2-3 years, so it's reasonable to assume that Magento is a more popular choice among those with no previous experience with e-commerce website development, while one group is forcing osCommerce, probably because they are used to the system. Google statistics show that Magento osCommerce overtaken in terms of search popularity in early 2009. Magento Company India

Magento
Magento is a modern e-commerce solution with the following advantages and disadvantages:

Advantages:
* Table-free, div-tag-based design, which is easy to customize and search engine friendly
* Based on the model-view-controller (MVC) framework Zend Framwork, which clearly separates the presentation layer and logic (code) offers
* Supported by a company and not a non-profit organization. The company owns Magento is active in fixing bugs and supporting the cart
* The system is nicely designed and looks very modern
* SEO friendly URL's for the get-go
* Advanced features such as reporting abandoned shopping cart, shipping estimator without logging in, set up multiple stores for an admin login and much more

Disadvantages:
* Magento has a lot of files and tables standard time required for a development team to learn. Adjustments may therefore take longer.
* Magento is slower and more complex
* Some estimates suggest that 2-3 Magento a higher total cost of ownership that might not be worth all the extra bells and whistles of smaller shop owners have

Magento Ecommerce Development
osCommerce has been a very long time (in Internet context), which means that a lot of knowledgeable people around to support it.

Advantages:
* A very well established community support the Software
* Simple encryption (no frames, that extra time to learn), although the structure may be a bit of a mess, which makes it easy to jump in and edit even for less experienced PHP and MySQL developers
* The simple code base makes it quick spin
* This is a simple virtual account when it comes to hosting
* There are not many standard features that make it easier for small merchants to manage
* It has a large number of contributions (add-ons) available through its long history

Disadvantages:
* Lack of standard features and intelligent functions required to install a large and serious e-commerce site running
* Old type of coding structure (not MVC framework), creating an osCommerce solution with many additional features are difficult to manage
* Uglier standard design-dependent and table layout is not as search engine friendly.

PHP programmers at Lite Breeze India to offer e-commerce website development with open source solutions such as Magento, osCommerce, Zend, etc. Magento Web Development

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