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

[Bob Morse]

You might want to look at Magento: http://drupal.org/project/magento

Ubercart, I believe, is being rewritten for D7. So, I am hoping that 
will improve things.

On 4/25/10 10:45 AM, sebastian wrote:
> 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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