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Hi all,

So I may have found an excuse to use Code Igniter for my jewelry ecommerce site I’ve been procrastinating, forever. I’ve found most open source solutions to just completely -suck-. Sorry for lack of a better term, but that’s the truth when it comes to ecommerce and open source. There is one exception, in my opinion, and that’s Magento http://www.magentocommerce.com/—however they won’t be ready for production until Q1 of 2008.

In the meantime, I’ve found Yahoo’s small business cart quite compelling. It gives the developer the flexibility of not abiding by any lame templating schema. The developer just needs to plugin some tags that correlate items to the shopping cart. I’m thinking it’s something similar to tags in any PHP templating system such as Smarty.

I was curious if anyone has experienced Y! commerce and how it might work with code igniter? I’d love to use CI as my backend if I don’t need to write an entire shopping cart.

Cheers,

- sf

Y! Commerce is probably the best of the major 3 hosted commerce platforms.  I’ve had a little experience with YahooStores (as it was called), ProStores (yUCK!), and MonsterCommerce. 

1st. Yahoo
2nd Monster
3rd ProStores, I’ve got some MAJOR issues with ProStores and there complete lack of competence. 

I personally do not like any of the major hosted commerce platforms.  If I were to choose a platform that was hosted Yahoo would be it.  None of them allow you to run PHP, ASP, CGI, etc.. server side scripts (last time I checked).

Other options I can recommend

XCart, it’s ok, you can get it hosted if you want a hosted version.
CSCart which I really like. #1 over all choice
OSCommerce - Bloated, no security from the get go
CRELoaded, it’s OSCommerce for sale..  with a couple mods
ViArt - It’s ok for a smaller store

 
-Brad