Comments on: Magento – Open Source Ecommerce

By: wenbert

wenbert — Fri, 02 May 2008 11:06:11 +0000

I am a big fan of Zend Framework. I will be trying out Magento for freelance projects soon. I hope customization won’t be that hard.

By: vinu

vinu — Fri, 02 May 2008 02:17:00 +0000

Ivo, thanks for catching my mistake… I’ve made the correction in the post

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:03:49 +0000

Vinu: I will probably post something on Magento myself as I’ve worked with it a bit

Andrew: Yes, you’d expect with such a large community that a lot is coming, yet the community wasn’t even able to answer a few simple questions so far. So for now, I will have to wait and see if the community will actually generate some usable content.

By: Ivo

Ivo — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:26:13 +0000

Note that it is based on Zend Framework, not on Zend Platform (the application server). It does run very well on the latter though.

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:53:13 +0000

Version 1.0 was only recently on 1 April, and a few months ago Magento didn’t exist at all. They’ve come a long way incredibly quickly, and I’m sure the developer docs will catch up in time.

There are 15,000 registered members on the forums and groups, growing at about 100 per day, so the amount of community generated content is growing quickly.

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Thu, 01 May 2008 14:38:20 +0000

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By: vinu

vinu — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:58:19 +0000

Let me know how the Magento Project goes for you. Yep this project does looks much better and easier to use than osCommerce.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:20:43 +0000

I am soon starting with a Magento project for a client and have been digging into Magento for that reason. It looks like a great app that will blow osCommerce off the market, but the lack of developer docs is a big problem. I hope the upcoming php|a book will help with that