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Tailslide -> Magneto - Open Source shop (9/3/2007 5:32:39)

This looks really quite interesting: http://www.magentocommerce.com/

It's an open source ecommerce programme which seems to be using a standards-based approach (CSS layouts and XHTML 1.0 Strict!).

They've even got labels on the form items.

The only negative thing I've found is that the dropdown menus aren't very accessible for keyboard users (tabbing through hidden items) but still - not bad!

edit: actually some of what looks like the results of the built in WYSIWYG editor look a little shoddy... *sigh*.



womble -> RE: Magneto - Open Source shop (9/4/2007 14:43:08)

Hmmmm...still a beta though. Maybe they might have ironed out some of the shoddiness in the final version...



tinaalice -> RE: Magneto - Open Source shop (9/7/2007 12:28:19)

No cart is any good if it does not have good seo features most important being keyword file names instead of a bunch of numbers etc .... does it have any seo features... I could not find anything with a quick look. On the file names .. is the (I presume it will be a addon or plugin for it) keyword file names feature (if it has one) stable?

I've been looking for a long time for a stable, accessible, seo friendly, validating and free cart .... or even a low cost cart ditto the above.

Tina



Tailslide -> RE: Magneto - Open Source shop (9/7/2007 13:54:13)

Hi Tina

I've recently tweaked CubeCart to help make it more to my liking for a client site.

It validates (to XHTML trans - would validate to strict but for the damn Cubecart copyright having target_blank in it and I can't remove that!), and it's more accessible than it was as I've removed unnecessary tables, replaced them with lists where appropriate and added thead, tbody etc to the tables that remain.

The only inaccessible stuff is the javascript in some of the submit buttons that links the information from one page to another (not sure how to do without that) and the payment bit itself which is paypal in this case and I've got no control over their site (unfortunately!).

There is also a free SEO mod (haven't used it yet) and being in the UK you'll need the VAT mod which is around $18. The cart itself is free with their copyright.



womble -> RE: Magneto - Open Source shop (9/7/2007 15:34:34)

Is Cubecart PHP/MySQL? (can't remember offhand). If it is and you can find the PHP variable names you could pull them from one page to the next using the variables - or use a PHP session array or a cookie to store them and pull them from that (at least that's how it worked when I wrote my own simple shopping cart last year). It'd probably mean re-writing/adding in a fair bit of code though, which I'm not sure how simple that would be working within Cubecart.



Tailslide -> RE: Magneto - Open Source shop (9/8/2007 3:25:24)

Yes it's PHP/MySQL. The thing that would worry me with my limited level of expertise in PHP etc is why, if they were building a PHP/MySQL cart would they then use JS to do the button thing? Wouldn't it be better to continue to use the same technology straight through as you said - why bother adding in the JS especially if you've got a session already running? It makes me think that I've missed the whole reason for them doing it and that there's some other "good" reason for doing it. Maybe it's purely to update the cart without refreshing..?

There's stuff like: 

<a href="javascript:submitDoc('prod{PRODUCT_ID}');" class="txtButton">{BTN_BUY}</a>


There seem to be some occasions when the JS can safely be removed (which I have) but because I'm not terribly sure about the overall picture of what it does on every occasion I've left the bits I'm not 100% sure about. The designer of CC is specific that it won't run without JS - well, yet anyway!!



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