Advice:- I want to build a CMS / e-commerce site

[Ardesco]

osCommerce is DANGEROUS. Do NOT use it.

Care to ellaborate monkey ?

I'm not aware of it being any more dangerous than any other e-commerce site

oh and here's a couple of URL's of people I have had do a couple of things for me in the past:

http://www.digitalvisionsdesign.com/ - American so cheap when you factor in the exchange rate, but needs a kick now and then to get it done.

http://www.media-d-zign.co.uk/ - She is quite good but hard to get hold of, try ethomas@media-d-zign.co.uk

and I did have another one but can't find it now. If I do i'll pass it on

[errorista]

Care to ellaborate monkey ?

I'm not aware of it being any more dangerous than any other e-commerce site

yep

and if there is something you dont like then fix it . . .then share it!

open source is a community

[Ardesco]

Found the other one:

http://www.babamd.co.uk/flashindex.html

[TheMonkey]

Ok oscommerce:

- relies on register_globals
- two distinct directories of apis NOT shared between admin and live sites. Upgrade nightmare.
- no separation of presentation and data tier
- incredibly large page sizes
- sql dotted everywhere randomly
- performace is beyond abysmal (3secs to gen a page!!!???)
- code quality is scarily bad
- how big???
- customization nightmare - have to hack most stuff in.
- url schema is crap
- menu falls apart regularly
- really google unfriendly
- insecure storage of payment data
- someone hacked up zencart to make it better but it can gen 600!!! sql queries a hit!!!!
- circa 1996 html
- about as user friendly as something by B&O. They practise anti-hci!!!

I could go on but that's just to start with.

Btw, I know the phrase "it's open source - you can improve it" yadda yadda. I have done - I threw it away and built something better!

**** open sourcing it though - it doesn't pay the bills.

Just to add some credentials, I was the tech arch on the team that built 2 of the top 10 by sales uk-based e-commerce sites in 2005. I shifted nearly £900m of sales through my code without a single security incident

[Cowboy Bob]

I've had a decent experience with this - http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/

You'll need a Java Servlet container available on your host, but it's not expensive to get one with Tomcat on.

[TheMonkey]

I've had a decent experience with this - http://www.opencms.org/opencms/en/

You'll need a Java Servlet container available on your host, but it's not expensive to get one with Tomcat on.

Yeah that actually is reasonable! It's a proper cms!

[errorista]

Just to add some credentials, I was the tech arch on the team that built 2 of the top 10 by sales uk-based e-commerce sites in 2005. I shifted nearly £900m of sales through my code without a single security incident

post a link then

Ive got my credit card in my hand . . . and Im gagging to buy something

[TheMonkey]

post a link then

Ive got my credit card in my hand . . . and Im gagging to buy something

No because I wouldn't want to tie my reputation to my comments on here

[errorista]

Just to add some credentials, I was the tech arch on the team that built 2 of the top 10 by sales uk-based e-commerce sites in 2005. I shifted nearly £900m of sales through my code without a single security incident

Unfortunately your credibility is not increased by this post.

I of course believe every word, but I suspect many others will smell 900m tons of bs.

[TheMonkey]

That's 900m over 3 years for 2 companies. Don't forget it's turnover, not profit!!!! Companies in question were well-known on-line computer retailer and a supermarket