Zen Cart
Zen Cart is an e-commerce solution written in PHP. The program is designed to make online shopping easy for customers and simple for the shop owner to manage. Its features include built-in gift certificates and discount coupons, a template system, "register globals off"-compatibility, and many more.
| Licenses | GPL |
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Recent releases
- 01 Jan 2007 13:44
Release Notes: Two vulnerabilities related to cross site scripting (XSS) have been fixed. Officially certified for Paypal Express Checkout (only for North American Paypal accounts as of 20070101). Also includes several minor improvements and bugfixes.
- 27 Oct 2006 05:24
Release Notes: This release adds numerous bugfixes and enhancements, including some serious XSS security fixes.
- 12 Sep 2006 07:17
Release Notes: Since version 1.2, tables are no longer used in the page design, the business logic has been removed from the templates, the code is valid XHTML Transitional, support for MySQL 5 was improved, PHPMailer is used for the email system, and many new features, bugfixes, and other improvements were made. Since version 1.3.0, many important security updates were made, a long list of bugs were fixed, a new default template is used, and plugins are available for FCKeditor and TinyMCE (htmlarea is included by default).
- 02 Aug 2004 11:58
Release Notes: New features include table prefixes, context-sensitive popup help, a new database abstraction layer, expanded caching options, and additional CSS style tags for better control over display. The installer is now more user-friendly, and includes a pre-install check, auto-detection of previous versions, a database upgrade script, and the ability to upgrade table prefixes if needed. The admin area now has a statistics area and better security.
- 30 Nov 2003 03:46
No changes have been submitted for this release.
Recent comments
alternative storefront/templating
ZenMagick (freshmeat.net/projects...) is an alternative storefront module for zen-cart.
It has a simpler templating structure and even allows to use Smarty (via plugin). Other template engines would be possible, too.
The code is build on top of an object-oriented API that allows access to pretty much everything.
It implements a full MVC stack, including a validation framework, plugins, pluggable logging, database layer, caching and more.
Note: zen-cart now considers ZenMagick a fork. However, ZenMagick is installed on top of zen-cart (like any other zen-cart mod) and can't be used alone.
Re: Based on osCommerce
A Zen Cart wiki (www.zen-cart.com/wiki/) was added in november -05, for most of your documentation needs. :-)
The forums and FAQ sections are also places to look for info.
Based on osCommerce
This project is based on osCommerce. I wish they specified
that on their pages somewhere. As such, it can be confusing
trying to find documentation for it. I will say that it seems to
be easier to modify than osCommerce is.
nutz4zen
28 Nov 2003 14:36
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