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Hi,
i need to build an online shop.
Im considering to buy EE for a project, but i would like to see some examples of web shops done with it, and i would like to have more informaction on the shop module.

regards,
goliatone

Currently the only native shopping related module is the simple commerce module, which simplifies paypal interaction and can be tied into member level.  It’s not a full blown shopping module per se.  Depending on your needs, for a full blown shopping cart, you’d probably want to integrate EE with a dedicated commerce script.  I believe zend, oscommerce and others have been used- here’s a thread discussing some of the options folks have used.  There’s also talk of a third party module in this thread.  It really depends a bit on what you need to do. 

And I’ll check with the crew to scare up some shopping site examples using EE.

Hi Robin,
thanxs for your fast answer. I will check the links you provided me.
regards, goliatone

There is a landscape photography site that was recently posted in the ‘Site Introductions’ section of this forum.

I believe that used the Simple Commerce function.

I did www.kevinvandam.com with a combination of EE for almost the entire site, and then used Zencart for the shop area. I’m hoping eventually to use EE to do whole sites like this in the future (shopping area included), but you have to go with what is currently available!

@mdesign, cool site. How hard it is to integrate Zencart with EE?

@stinhambo, tnxs for your reply, i will check it out.

It’s pretty easy to “integrate”, in my opinion. Just drop your store in a directory that isn’t in EE, make sure it’s using the same styles/stylesheets (@include works wonders for this sort of thing) and that’s just about that. Of course you don’t get to use EE’s templating system, or global variables - or anything EE while you’re in your shop area - and you have to hard code any dynamically generated links, but it at least looks like the rest of your site and users don’t notice a difference - as long as the site is working for them!

It’s pretty easy to “integrate”, in my opinion. Just drop your store in a directory that isn’t in EE, make sure it’s using the same styles/stylesheets (@include works wonders for this sort of thing) and that’s just about that. Of course you don’t get to use EE’s templating system, or global variables - or anything EE while you’re in your shop area - and you have to hard code any dynamically generated links, but it at least looks like the rest of your site and users don’t notice a difference - as long as the site is working for them!

Sounds easy enough.
Tnxs for the reply.