[support] What is the best shopping module for Drupal 6?

[sebastian]

Hi Shai,

Well, I know someone already rewrote the code for one of the extentions, 
I think it was either the discount or the rules system, but his code was 
not accepted into Ubercart 2 from 1... which was totally demoralizing 
and he then left the project. I've had other developers look at the code 
and balk too, but if code releases are not being adopted, its hard to 
expect anyone to spend the time rewriting parts of it from the ground up 
[which is what needs to happen on several aspects of it, attributes are 
also poorly constructed in the database, to name one more].

Ubercart team would really have to want to address this as a fundamental 
refactoring before it would make sense for anyone to want to commit 
serious time to the project.

Don't get me wrong, if you have a simple shop, and you don't ever expect 
to need to do some serious import/export work or need some complex 
business rules for non-"normal" activities [normal as defined by what 
Ubercart can do], then you are fine and Ubercart is adequate.

I've had to do an Ubercart 1 -> 2 upgrade with a Dupal 5 -> 6 
conversion, and the client's product list of 500+ items is fundamentally 
limited. We (2 devs + myself] can't implement his needed business rules 
without rebuilding aspects of Ubercart from the ground up, and our 
client simply doesn't have the budget to fund such a massive endeavor.

Sad to hear nothing else is available for D6, I hope this will get 
addressed in the future, or that a different [more powerful/better 
architected] platform will be integrated.

Kindly,

S.

Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Sebastian,
> 
> For D6 Ubercart is the best we have in the Drupal ecosystem.
> 
> "A lot of the code for Ubercart [+ extentions and mySQL tables] is so
> horribly written..."
> 
> You can jump on board and help make it better.
> 
> Shai
> 
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:37 PM, sebastian <inforazor at gmail.com 
> <mailto:inforazor at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Does anyone know of a (dare I say it) better eCommerca application for
>     Drupal 6 than Ubercart? Ubercart just continues to suck, IMHO.
> 
>     I need a much more serious eCommerce package that actually can
>     accommodate real-world business rules and diverse situations.
> 
>     A lot of the code for Ubercart [+ extentions and mySQL tables] is so
>     horribly written...
> 
>     Yes: Ubercart is fine for a simple site that doesn't get complicated or
>     require any custom coding. If if you go beyond the trodden path:
>     beware!!
> 
>     Michel Morelli wrote:
>      > Ubercart for me.
>      >
>      > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Campbell <campbell.roy at gmail.com
>     <mailto:campbell.roy at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      >> How big is my dick??
>      >>
>      >> Is Joomla better then drupal???
>      >>
>      >> Damn that moon has the shiny shiny, much better then the
>     sun.........
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 08:54 -0400, John Mitchell wrote:
>      >>> What is the best shopping module for Drupal 6?
>      >>>
>      >>> A couple that come to mind are Ubercart and e-Commerce.
>      >>>
>      >>> Thanks,
>      >>>
>      >>> John
>      >>>
>      >>> --
>      >>> John J. Mitchell
>      >>
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