Cakephp Shopping Cart

Question

I was wondering which php based carts would be the easiest to integrate with cakephp.

I heard about bakesale , but I have no information about it, be it up to the level with purple, kubekar or other carts there. This has been a long time since they updated the bakesale information (August 2008). Therefore, if someone has information on how reliable and safe bakesale is, or it is better to use other php carts, any information will be appreciated.

Answer 1

It depends on how much you want the basket to integrate with the rest of your Cakephp application.

I tried Bakesale for the online store, and I ended up dumping it for ZenCart after too many complaints from the customer. I tried bakesale because it seemed simple, but it was too easy. It does not have all the features of Magento or ZenCart. Some parts are incomplete or simply broken.

Bakesale is a great Cakephp app, but it really misses the mark as an ecommerce solution.

The development of both bakesale and phpshop seems pretty dead. I would suggest creating your cake app separately, and then creating something like store.mydomain.com using magento. There are still ways to make them talk to each other.

Answer 2

I recently released a CakePHP shopping cart plugin called Kaching, found at http://code.google.com/p/kaching-php/ . This is an intermediate point between Magento and Bakesale. I found that Magento was trying to make every store fit in the same form, and Bakesale was missing the line.

With Kaching, you create the look of your store by interacting with Kaching controllers. There is no need to create a store administration, as it is provided.

Answer 3

I heard that phpshop corresponded as a Cake application - not sure how far they are ... or why they are not writing it as a plugin!

Answer 4

Given that Magento is written in Zend, which, like CakePHP, is an MVC environment, you might be better off writing a site in Zend. I am encoded in both frameworks and they have a lot in common due to the nature of MVC, although CakePHP certainly has more functionality.

Answer 5

Plugin for CakePHP 2.0. Still under development, but already usable, it complies with coding standards and has unit tests. https://github.com/burzum/cart