php ecommerce/shopping cart solution(s)?

[Fred]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 11:31, Dan Jenkins wrote:
> jsf wrote:
> 
> > It's time for me to start looking for an ecommerce/shopping cart/CC
> > processing solution for my employer.  MySQL/PHP is a requirement, FOSS
> > or inexpensive is preferred...
> > 
> > I'm looking now at http://www.ext-cart.com/  and I'm going to look at
> > OSCommerce (though I heard that it's being abandoned or something
> > recently on /. ... I'll have to check...)
> > 
> > Anyway... recommnedations apprecaited.
> 
> I've recently used osCommerce (though in a supervisory capacity, not too 
> much hands on). It looks pretty good. As to it being abandoned, that's 
> news to me. From what I've seen of the active community around 
> osCommerce, that doesn't seem likely. It appears pretty complete as is. 
> There's plenty of existing templates and modules for it. Even if 
> development stopped today (and no one else picked it up), I'd be 
> comfortable using it. (Open source is wonderful that way - no need to 
> fear being orphaned.)

I currently have a heavy hitting engine for eCommerce I wrote in PHP,
called ECMS(E-Commerce Management System) and is currently serving quite
a few sites.

http://www.hydranuke.com

Contact me offline at fred at hydranuke.com, or call me at the number below
so we can discuss the details. My system is not FOSS at this point, but
we can work something out.

I am constantly upgrading its capabilities and power, and it's capable
of doing quite a bit now from handling your usual shopping carts to
doing ticket sales for venue events. I am currently working on an
extensive inventory tracking system and support for SEO. The idea is
that a small business, if it wishes, can run their entire business using
ECMS, as is one client is doing so at this moment. Tying site sales
directly into Inventory Tracking and Forecasting will be a very powerful
addition to ECMS. So it can do everything from simple "mom and pop"
shopping cart operations to serious online commerce. 

It uses PHP to filter regular old HTML with embedded tags that it
inserts content into, thus allowing full customization of the website's
look and feel. Elements it creates are designed with a view of using CSS
to control the appearance, thus adding to customization even more. Also,
it is trivial to write a driver to any merchant gateway. 

If it's not the best eCommerce system anywhere, it soon will be. I have
not decided to release it to Open Source yet, and I'm not sure if I will
ever do that, since it's become my "cash cow". But I do work out
individual deals and am very flexible.

-- 
Fred Mitchell, HydraNuke.com
E-Commerce and Hosting Solutions 
Whatever you want, we'll make it happen
(603)557-5986