Re: [PHP] open source bookshop

[email protected] (Tommy Pham)
Newsgroups php.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Tommy Pham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Ali Reza Sajedi
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Thanks very much for your kind feedback sofar.
>>
>> I know of many shop and cms systems written in php.
>>
>> However, what I am looking for is a system developed specifically for books.
>>
>> And, as mentioned hier such a system has its own specific requirements that
>> other generic systems do  not meet.
>>
>> Ali
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "O. Lavell" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 8:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PHP] open source bookshop
>>
>>
>>> Tommy Pham wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ali Reza Sajedi wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anybody know a good open source bookshop/bookstore system written
>>>>> in php+mysql?
>>>
>>>> Sounds like you're looking for an e-commerce solution.
>>>
>>> You mean a webshop?
>>>
>>>> Did you search for 'open source e-commerce' ?
>>>
>>> It could be that a bookshop has specific requirements that a generic
>>> webshop application can't meet.
>
> The only thing that books differ from a general webshop / e-commerce
> is ISBN and authors.  In any case, a good e-commerce solution should
> have UPC/ISBN since every product is identified by UPC/ISBN regardless
> of the industry.  So what I suggest is look for a good open source
> e-commerce solution that has most of the features you're looking for
> and just implement additional fields in the db for ISBN, authors,
> publishers (manufacturers?) and some additional php code.  It beats
> writing an e-commerce from scratch and helps you better understand
> that solution you're implementing.
>

every product = every 'physical' product (not digital :p)

>>>
>>> Sorry, Ali, I can't help you either.
>>>
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