RE: Shopping Mall system

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[quote="kushmit"][quote="Ajeh"]The original premis behind this version was to have one store owner with a lot of seperate stores. Each could have it's own look and feel to them, domain name, shared domain names or pointed domain names. The only stipulation was being on the same server.

They all then use 1 MySQL file.

There is a setting for a unique store name but that is just a title to appear on the orders and in email.

The current version also allowed a customer to see all their orders from all the stores and only need one login.

Everything was then run by 1 Admin.

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Hi-

I'd like to weigh in on this. What you describe is EXACTLY WHAT I NEED. I took a look at your One MySQL demo and that looks very cool. WAY COOL.

Although a lot of people are talking about a desire for more advanced features (separate billing and admin, etc.), I think it would add immediate value to a huge number of osCommerce customers if you shipped the feature set I quoted above. More advanced mall features are really a special case of ISPs. For the typical web merchant, unified admin and billing (rather than separate) is a huge benefit.

I do think that the "child" stores need to have full flexibility when it comes to user presentation, though (separate domains, separate look-and-feel, separate localization capabilities). If a customer enters through one "storefront" they should be able to go through the entire buying process without having to think about which store they are in (or without even realizing that there are other stores). It appears that your demo has these things, so the only question is when can this be rolled in to OSC (or turned into a contribution)?

Great work![/quote]

When I have the time, a few 100+ of hours, to re-write this for MS2 ... :shock: 

I will be looking into it again after I finish SEC and have it working for MS2.

Then, I have my Layout and Column control with themes finished and bundled up.

So, it's on the list of things to do.