Open Source Ecommerce in PHP

OpenSource Ecommerce

What are the Recent Trends?

Saidur Rahman bijonEmail :bijon_php@yahoo.comBlog: http://saidur.wordpress.comSr. Software Eng.

Agenda : OpenSource Ecommerce

Features in Ecommerce

Popular Open source Ecommerce

Look at a recent kick ass application

What are the Ecommerce Features?

Is Ecommerce differ from real life shopping?

Let’s see the Real life Shopping

Products display for customersProducts display for customersChoosing different productsChoosing different products

Price with productsPrice with products

Real life Shopping (continue..)

Choose products and add to basketChoose products and add to basketCheckout Baskets & paymentCheckout Baskets & payment

Payment ProcessPayment Process

Online Shopping like a Real life shopping

products display for customers products display for customers

Choosing products & add to basketChoosing products & add to basket

show basket items show basket items

Shopping Basket System

Online Shopping (continue..)

show basket items show basket items

Shopping Basket System

Online Shopping (continue..)

payment Options

Billing and Shipping InformationBilling and Shipping Information

CheckOut &Payment system

payment by 3rd party tools

Online Shopping (continue..)

How paypal work

Features OF Ecommerce

Site Management Product management Variety of payment and shipping modules Order Management User Management Report system Customize the Template Look and Feel

Features OF Ecommerce (Continue..)

Unlimited category hierarchy Entry product description Multiple images per product Multiple price plans product review system

Product Management Features

Features OF Ecommerce (Continue..)

SSL security support for orders Shipping to multiple addresses in one order Shopping basket Shopping Cart with tax and shipping

estimates Multiple payment gateway options

Shipping & Payment Features

Features OF Ecommerce (Continue..)

Coupon System Newsletter System

Product Promotion and marketing features

What are the options to build ecommerce?

IN-House

Open Source

Outsourced

Licensed Solution

Popular Open Source Solution

Google Trends Open Source ecommerce

Basic Features

OsCommerce ZenCartVirtumart Magento

License GPL V2GPL V2 GPL V2 GPL V2

First Release

2003 2005 2005 2007

Depend-encey

- - joomla -

Parent -osCommerce

phpShop -

Features of osCommerce

Code Base PHP4

PHP5 Compatibility Partial

Framework Used -

Database MySql

Technical Features

OsCommerce Features

Unlimited categories

Unlimited product options

Administration Panel

Multi-lingual

Coupon System

Tax Rate Management

Permission System Multiple Currencies

Shipping Modules

1 image per product

Oscommerce - Advantages

Has the most available number of contributions and modifications .

Recent security update brings it up to date with MySQL 5 and PHP 5

OsCommerce-Disadvantages

Difficulty to add advanced features such as group discount, configurable products,

custom payment module

No graphic template system meaning it is harder to modify the design

Unable to add multiple product image

Features of ZenCart

Code Base PHP4

PHP5 Compatibility Yes

Framework Used -

Database MySql

Technical Features

ZenCart Features

Unlimited categories

Unlimited product options

Fully Customizable Template system

Multi-lingual

Customer Group

Customer Reporting Tools

Permission System Multiple Currencies

Shipping Modules

Multiple image per product

ZenCart - Advantages

Overcome the short come of Oscommerce Many contributions from Oscommerce already

installed.

Nicer looking default designs pre-installed

ZenCart - Disadvantages

not possible to use Oscommerce contributions, they must be converted to Zen Cart.

Admin interface usability

Features of Virtumart

Code Base PHP4

PHP5 Compatibility Partial

Framework Used Joomla CMS framework

Database MySql

Technical Features

Virtumart Features

Unlimited categories

Unlimited product options

Easy Template Integration

Multi-lingual

SSL

Customer Reporting Tools

Tax CalculationMultiple Currencies

Shipping Modules

Multiple image per product

Virtuamart - Advantages

Easy to install .

Combine well with best cms joomla

Has the basic shopping cart features

Easy template switching

Use Joomla Component

Virtuamart-Disadvantages

Lacks a lot of high-end shopping cart features.

Not as many add-on modules available

Features of Magento

Code Base PHP5

PHP5 Compatibility YES

Framework Used Zend framework

Database MySql

Technical Features

Magento - Advantages

Out of the box it has the most features such as Google Checkout, Order editing

Has the cleanest coding of all of the shopping carts reviewed.

Has an excellent templating system making it easy to upgrade

Magento - Disvantages

Modifying the cart can sometimes take longer

the coding style has a steeper learning curve

Highly configurable system requirements

Significant cost to host the platform and get decent performance

The ‘Right’ Solution

First-No perfect Solution. Realize this early on.

Look for a product build or Product that fulfill your

objectives A provider you trust

The Recent Kick ass ecommerce

www.magentocommerce.com

Reviews on Magento

"Magento is going to win the eCommerce software war, hands down. I've never seen another ecommerce platform so well architected and well designed as Magento."Jack Aboutboul,

Features of Magento

Site Management

Multiple Websites And Stores

Administration Panel

Multi-lingual One-click Upgrades

Customer Groups

100% Customizable

Tax Rate Management

Roles And Users

Permission System Multiple Currencies

Localization

What maeks magento differ from others?

What are the main things to choose a better apartment ?

Magento Architecture -Background

OO Support

PHP5 Support

Zend Framework

MVC Design Pattern

Interface to Other CMS

Using Zend Framework, Magento was Built with below points

Flexibility

Upgradeable

Speed and Security

Portability

Magento Database Structure

Entity-Attribute-Value model.

heavily normalized

Products - EAV

Magento Site– Few Screen shot

Magento Site– Few Screen shot

Magento Site– Few Screen shot

Magento Site– Few Screen shot

Magento based site

Magento based popular site

Magento based site

Thank You

Saidur RahmanEmail : bijon_php@yahoo.com

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