Honestly, I have been working a lot of my time in recent years with osCommerce. Everyone wants to sell things and earn big. People keep asking for a customized shopping carts and therefore, a lot of customizations, in many different ways have been done by me.
osCommerce, I say, it’s a legacy, but it’s ugly, very very ugly with the table layout codes and mixed logics and presentation layers. I understand it’s a common issue with any open source PHP software with history. but it’s really a pain when working on it.
Due to its popularity, there are many clone? or I should say "top-up" development exists for osCommerce, such as ZenCart. they are OK, but they just look like boring combinations of the original osCommerce with a lot of contributions pre-installed.
When I first looked at the demo shopping cart website, I can’t say anything but boring. I know (by looking at the generated HTML codes) they have clean up a LOT in the codes, but in term of features, its design and look and feel, it just looks like yet another osCommerce clone (or branch-off).
However, the admin section is REALLY IMPRESSIVE! it’s modern and rich. I haven’t seen this level of modification to osCommerce before. I think everyone should really go in and have a look. The admin login detail is the usual boring admin and admin. =P
Demo here and features list is here.
