Sunday, July 18, 2010

Tools/Frameworks: Open Source Online Shopping Cart Solution

TomatoCart is an open source shopping cart solution developed by Wuxi Elootec Technology Co., Ltd. It is branched from osCommerce 3 as a separate project and is released under the GNU General Public License. Equipped with the web2.0 Technology Ajax and Rich Internet Applications, TomatoCart is devoted to building a landmark eCommerce solution.

Feature highlights: TomatoCart has several significant enhancements based on osCommerce 3:

  • Rich Internet Applications based administration panel
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Web Analytics (Piwik)
  • Lightweight Framework Content Management System
  • Email System

Key features to highlight that are somewhat differentiating

  • ExtJS Rich Internet Applications Framework - The TomatoCart administration site is completely rewritten based on Ext JS which is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building Rich Internet Applications. It includes many high-performance and customizable UI widgets to simplify work with web applications.
  • Multi-window Environments - Web desktop based application allows users to keep several windows open simultaneously, to enable users to work with several modules such as products, customers and orders at the same time. It mimics user experience of desktop Operating System, offering features and applications similar to a PC environment. So that users can easily start to work with TomatoCart without any difficulty

Technology Stack: TomatoCart can be installed on any server where a web server with PHP has been installed on and has access to a MySQL database server

  • Linux or Windows OS
  • PHP v5.2.0 (with MySQLi extension)
  • MySQL v4.1.13 or v5.0.7
  • Ext JS 2.2.1

TomatoCart Subversion repository is hosted at Google code.

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1 comment:

  1. In E commerce sector there is lots of competition in which the web site must be unique with price and products.

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