Wanted: Exceptional PHP ecommerce / business script




The difference between my request and others, is I need a script with excellent technical, programmer, and designer support.

Can someone please recommend a free or pay-for script that would allow me to setup an online business, an art gallery, with various products, categories and topics. The script must be one that is easy to install, customize and use. A script that has stood the test of time, is mature and has already had the vast majority of its kinks worked out. In other words the script is well thought out, well made, easy to use, intuitive.

We are looking for an excellent ecommerce shopping cart / portal for an online store, with a wide variety or products / categories.

1. Front Page is a Blog / or News portal, for promoting new promotions, sales, specials, exhibitions etc…. spring summer, fall and winter sales, holiday sales, announcements, even the possibility of auction sales in the future. An easy to use CMS system for the front page of the site.

2. Ability to tell the ecommerce about a new promotion, then you create the promotion name, tell the promotion the directory name, it uploads all the pictures in that directory, creates a page with thumbnails, as admin you can click on any thumbnail if you are logged in as admin and change the prices, add prices or put information about the product. So if I put a whole bunch of pictures into a directory on my local computer, when I create the new promotion (SPEED adding new items), it asks me where the directory is whether on the internet or locally, and sucks them all into that new promotion page or something like that

3. Sale – you the owner of the store, can choose 10, 20, or N number of products to put on sale, and assign them to a page where they all show up as thumbnails and shows the old price with a line through it and the new sale price in red with an order button under it.


4. the ability to add or delete individual items into the store, with drop downs for the category, with the ability to add items in the drop down, or remove items from the drop down.

5. good search engine – powerful and efficient whether price color subject, misspelling search? So if someone misspells a word the site can say, did you mean such and such? Easy to find products and materials with less clicking around, so a good solid search engine.

6. Mailing List – have a double opt in mailing list? sign up box on the front page of the site, or every page of the site, people can sign up, it says thank you afterwards, and then it sends them an email with a link to confirm their sign up to the mailing list,

7. Ability to send out HTML emails to the list, and send out previews before we send out to the master mailing list, ability to send mail to custom group of people, for instance only people who checked off a certain box of category they are interested in.


8. Register - Create accounts, like mailing list, but better, only they register, can login, customize their area, some people, you know the usual register, and asks them for a simple password, which really logs them in, or it creates an account for them? Where they can now login to the web site if they need to do so. Customize what kinds of things they are interested in, maybe the site gives them boxes they can check off as to what kinds of products particular to the site they like. Maybe we have a mailing list and it doesn’t register them because maybe they only want to be on the mailing list but not register. Register allows them to customize and change mailing frequency.
9. dynamic coud, things aren’t so interlinked that if you change or fix one thing, 3 other things break.
10. over several 1000 items or just 20, ability to put sale price on items, thumbnail page has a lot of information there about the product, ability to have custom thumbnail pages for the products, so you see a page with a whole bunch of thumbnails, and then you can click on a thumbnail to see an individual item in more detail, the image is then blown up.
11. good accounting / and record keeping, and views associated with such.
12. Customer - ability of customer to search, login, order, status, track shipping
13. Owner – in house that’s us the admins of the site – we have the ability to setup promotions / sales / clearance, again , this is where we randomly select 20 items, or add 20 new items to the site, we don’t necessarily need to put them on sale, we might just be adding new items, if we do add new item, and put sale price on it, a line goes through the black price, shows a red sale price and order button.
14. products ordered or not ordered have an appraisal page or bill of sale page for admin, if lets say a product online were to be sold at the physical store, they could click on these links (appraisal) or (bill of sale) and then print these out.

Can anyone recommend a good PHP script for this, how long will it take to make, any suggestions?


The difference between my request and others, is I need a script with excellent technical, programmer, and designer support.

Wanted: Exceptional PHP ecommerce / business script The difference between my request and others, is I need a script with excellent technical, programmer, and designer support.

Can someone please recommend a free or pay-for script that would allow me to setup an online business, an art gallery, with various products, categories and topics. The script must be one that is easy to install, customize and use. A script that has stood the test of time, is mature and has already had the vast majority of its kinks worked out. In other words the script is well thought out, well made, easy to use, intuitive.

We are looking for an excellent ecommerce shopping cart / portal for an online store, with a wide variety or products / categories.

www.jshop.co.uk does all this out of the box without any code hacks, customisations or addons.

1.Front Page is a Blog / or News portal, for promoting new promotions, sales, specials, exhibitions etc…. spring summer, fall and winter sales, holiday sales, announcements, even the possibility of auction sales in the future. An easy to use CMS system for the front page of the site.

You can create text/image content areas to put on any page of the site, additionally you can display New products, Featured products, Top products, Bestsellers and Special offers on any page you wish.

2. Ability to tell the ecommerce about a new promotion, then you create the promotion name, tell the promotion the directory name, it uploads all the pictures in that directory, creates a page with thumbnails, as admin you can click on any thumbnail if you are logged in as admin and change the prices, add prices or put information about the product. So if I put a whole bunch of pictures into a directory on my local computer, when I create the new promotion (SPEED adding new items), it asks me where the directory is whether on the internet or locally, and sucks them all into that new promotion page or something like that

You can use the import facility to add new product data en mass.

3.Sale – you the owner of the store, can choose 10, 20, or N number of products to put on sale, and assign them to a page where they all show up as thumbnails and shows the old price with a line through it and the new sale price in red with an order button under it.

You can format how your prices display in any way you wish, formatting is basic html/css.

4. the ability to add or delete individual items into the store, with drop downs for the category, with the ability to add items in the drop down, or remove items from the drop down.

You have full control over your categories and products, not quite as you describe but it has the same features just done slightly differently - try the demo!

5. good search engine – powerful and efficient whether price color subject, misspelling search? So if someone misspells a word the site can say, did you mean such and such? Easy to find products and materials with less clicking around, so a good solid search engine.

It has an advanced search feature which allows you to search any data you wish. You could create a data field for mispellings and let the search mechanism use that as well.

6. Mailing List – have a double opt in mailing list? sign up box on the front page of the site, or every page of the site, people can sign up, it says thank you afterwards, and then it sends them an email with a link to confirm their sign up to the mailing list,

has double optin newsletter system, you can put the signup box anywhere you want.

7. Ability to send out HTML emails to the list, and send out previews before we send out to the master mailing list, ability to send mail to custom group of people, for instance only people who checked off a certain box of category they are interested in.

Does html and/or text emails

8. Register - Create accounts, like mailing list, but better, only they register, can login, customize their area, some people, you know the usual register, and asks them for a simple password, which really logs them in, or it creates an account for them? Where they can now login to the web site if they need to do so. Customize what kinds of things they are interested in, maybe the site gives them boxes they can check off as to what kinds of products particular to the site they like. Maybe we have a mailing list and it doesn’t register them because maybe they only want to be on the mailing list but not register. Register allows them to customize and change mailing frequency.

Has full customer accounts feature. Again you can customise as you want, you can create multiple mailing lists.

9.dynamic coud, things aren’t so interlinked that if you change or fix one thing, 3 other things break.

No it won't break unless you do something stupid :)

10.over several 1000 items or just 20, ability to put sale price on items, thumbnail page has a lot of information there about the product, ability to have custom thumbnail pages for the products, so you see a page with a whole bunch of thumbnails, and then you can click on a thumbnail to see an individual item in more detail, the image is then blown up.

Again you can set up your shop to display products however you want. You can also have different layouts for different categories and products - this is done by basic html/css. Products can have as many images as you want.

11. good accounting / and record keeping, and views associated with such.

Keeps optional stats, both general site stats and also category/product views and info

12.Customer - ability of customer to search, login, order, status, track shipping

Customer zone allows them to check order statues and old orders.

13.Owner – in house that’s us the admins of the site – we have the ability to setup promotions / sales / clearance, again , this is where we randomly select 20 items, or add 20 new items to the site, we don’t necessarily need to put them on sale, we might just be adding new items, if we do add new item, and put sale price on it, a line goes through the black price, shows a red sale price and order button.

As site owner you have complete control over everything :)

14. products ordered or not ordered have an appraisal page or bill of sale page for admin, if lets say a product online were to be sold at the physical store, they could click on these links (appraisal) or (bill of sale) and then print these out.

Has inbuilt order printing and editing

The difference between my request and others, is I need a script with excellent technical, programmer, and designer support.

Yes their support is excellent, the company forums are full of good advice as well :)