oninuva
05-30-2006, 07:51 PM
Anyone use X-Cart?
is it hard to code with? (styles, custom)
is it hard to code with? (styles, custom)
 | View Full Version : X-Cart bluedreamer 05-30-2006, 08:48 PM It's not too hard but you'll need to be familiar with html and css, plus if you want to tweak the functionality a knowledge of the Smarty templating system would help. If your happy editing html you should have no major problems except there are nearly 200 different template files if you need to do serious template changes. However in practice you can get some nice layouts by editing just a dozen or so! bear 05-30-2006, 08:56 PM 200 template files? We're running the latest gold version and it's far less than that from my experience. To make a look and feel it's basically the main template file that gets edited. It acts like a wrapper for the modular bits that make up the rest of it. A few edits on the CSS and off you go. Be warned, it needs a lot of tweaking to work properly on a server, as it has lots of queries per page and can be resource intensive. Seems to run best in tandem with eAccelator and lots of RAM. topsub 05-31-2006, 10:07 AM i used x-cart but its a pain to style. I switched to cs-cart.com its smarty template based makes it easier to style. X-cart is good but you have to learn were everything is and how it works. Cs cart i think is layed out better. bluedreamer 05-31-2006, 10:53 AM 200 template files? We're running the latest gold version and it's far less than that from my experience. To make a look and feel it's basically the main template file that gets edited. It acts like a wrapper for the modular bits that make up the rest of it. A few edits on the CSS and off you go. Lol... count them up! Mind you most of them you will probably never touch unless you are doing major layout changes or stripping out excess code :) topsub 05-31-2006, 10:55 AM ^^ thats the point. shouldn't be excess code. Cs cart puts down only what you need and use. oninuva 05-31-2006, 03:09 PM so wahts a good e-commerce thing topsub 05-31-2006, 03:10 PM its all of what you want but i have used cs-cart.com on about 4 projects and love it so far. I use to use x-cart but switched because i like cs-cart better. If you need one set up email me. bluedreamer 05-31-2006, 07:29 PM ^^ thats the point. shouldn't be excess code. Cs cart puts down only what you need and use. I have to agree with you there, I'm not really pushing customers to it any more and offering alternative carts intead - CS cart does look good, I've been keeping my eye on it. internext 05-31-2006, 10:16 PM We just started using CS-cart on one of our sites and we love it too |