on line store solution

I've been looking for "open-source-on-line-stores-php-apache-mysql
powered solutions", and I found mainly two:

osCommerce
Zencart

I'm just beginning so I've to choose one of them to give it a try...
Which one you would opt for?

regards - julian

osCommerce very easy to install

Regards,

Niels Berkers
http://typo3.tros.nl


"julian maisano" <julianmaisanoXYZ@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've been looking for "open-source-on-line-stores-php-apache-mysql
> powered solutions", and I found mainly two:
>
> osCommerce
> Zencart
>
> I'm just beginning so I've to choose one of them to give it a try...
> Which one you would opt for?
>
> regards - julian

Go with oscommerce, i had only great experiences with it!
It's very customizable, has a lot of premade modules that are free,
and a great flexibility in dealing payments

Ovidiu


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Niels Berkers wrote:
> osCommerce very easy to install
>
> Regards,
>
> Niels Berkers
> http://typo3.tros.nl
>
>
> "julian maisano" <julianmaisanoXYZ@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:d3nkcr$gg8$1@domitilla.aioe.org...
>
>>I've been looking for "open-source-on-line-stores-php-apache-mysql
>>powered solutions", and I found mainly two:
>>
>>osCommerce
>>Zencart
>>
>>I'm just beginning so I've to choose one of them to give it a try...
>>Which one you would opt for?
>>
>>regards - julian
>
>
>
sorry to go against the flow, but I have to recommend AGAINST osC. The
code tree just seems very inefficient to me. They require
register_globas = On (Ick); there's way too much embedded HTML, and I
remember numerous redundant directories/files. The
flexibility/modulizing is a little overrated, IMO. Good, important mods
like CCGV require a Lot of work to implement. And god help you if you
want to write some custom code to drop in.

Zencart is just a fork (a somewhat-cleaner fork) of osC. Look at xCart
maybe -- I installed that once and liked the very little I did with it.
But I don't think there's a "great" out-of-the-box solution anywhere yet.

$.02

M