Project of site of online sales

[Bambina]

I set up a website of selling online built with PHP & MySQL languages

This is a site like:
- A list of products in a product table (linked table to a 'type')
- Each product belongs to a type, types are listed in a table

There are plenty of gray areas in my project, for example, I do not see how to implement the system in the basket? How to organize and process orders? How to display a list of products on multiple pages? Finally what, many details like these, but I mainly refer to the process of selection and how to run a command.

[opaper]

You will need to use sessions to keep the basket. Each product type, a button "add to cart", and stores it in session the list of goods and their quantity. Rather than trying to reinvent the same thing, it is best to go on a GPL product online store. The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.

[void]

According to me, Magento is best for you:
- It's very easy to integrate
- It is very efficient (a bit less since version 1.0)

Magento is great on paper, it seemed to be one dedicated to having a proper reactivity of the shop. As the project seems small magento may be too large and difficult to take in hand.

[Katty]

I use magento. Very easy to install, the setting is in the backoffice, very easy to create any categories, products with custom attributes. In few hours, you've quickly learned the basics. In addition, you can download the version with examples of products. And the system is fully automatic update. The only thing complicated is when you want to edit the templates and you must call the API, there is not clear.

But Prestashop has a good reputation too.