Posted by Jacob Wright in General, Object Oriented Programming, PHPOct 27th, 2005 | 3 Comments
We are calling for developers who would like to join in on a fun object oriented PHP 5 ecommerce project entitle ooCommerce. Please email me or leave a comment if you would like to be a developer on this project or help in any way. The project is hosted at SourceForge and currently only has downloads for the template system it will be using, Arras Template. Arras Template has a website at www.arrastemplate.org.
We (actually just myself right now) hope for this to be a good learning experience for others and are blogging about our design decisions how we are putting it together along the way....
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralOct 10th, 2005 | No Comments
ooCommerce is now an offical project of Sourceforge. You will not find much there right now, but I did add Arras to the files/downloads area. We will soon get an ooCommerce website up, possibly a wiki, and start documenting our work. An Arras website is also being set up in a similar fashion.
Posted by Jacob Wright in General, Object Oriented Programming, PHPOct 7th, 2005 | 1 Comment
We’ve broken down our system down into some general parts already. Now it’s time to make some decisions on more specific pieces of ooCommerce and break the system down into some main objects.
What’s in our Model
Well, first off, we know we need a database to store all of our store’s data. We’ll put off the database schema for now. But what we do need to decide is what database to use. And if we want to support several databases (which we do), what should we do to abstract the databases so that we use the same API no matter which database we use.
There are a few...
Posted by Jacob Wright in General, Object Oriented Programming, PHPOct 4th, 2005 | 1 Comment
So, we’re going to build ooCommerce, an ecommerce solution, an open source one. What pieces are involved? What are the major components of the system? Let’s get this organized using a top down approach.
Every ecommerce system has a few major parts in common. One is the catalog. This is where we can browse and search for the products. Then, we have the shopping cart. This is where we put the products when we want to buy them. We have our checkout, which is the process where we can purchase what is in our shopping cart. And lastly, many systems including ours will have a customer...
