Day: March 1, 2004

Looking for eCommerce solutions on PHP backed by MySQL and Apache. Turns out there are a lot of them!

• phPay, written by Germans with Apache and MySQL. Looks pretty good… it tracks sessions…
  • features
  • Demo Site
  • admin demo site. It claims to have stock-tracking (inventory), which is essential, but I don’t see it!

• ZenCart is a very large system… It looks a little busy and I’m not sure how much I’d have to strip it down. It doesn’t look like there is any inventory admin screens either.
  • showcase of live sites
  • sourceforge page

• osCommerce is also very large…
  They claim to have “product statistics” (which may be inventory) but the admin demo is not online.
  • SourceForge page
  • feature list
  • live stores using osCommerce

• phpShop is a little more spartan- here is their SourceForge page. They have themes and “addons” but I can’t seem to find an online demo.

I just saw Debbie Harry on “I Love the 70’s” on VH1… She looks good, but not when you compare to her pictures in her prime (1979).

I mean obviously… she was super hot. You know what would be a cool look for her? Sort of a scary goth supervillain thing, like Angelica Huston’s “evil queen” character in Captiain EO. Yeah ok, maybe I’m on crack, but it would still be cool. Fading celebrities make great zany supervillains. Like the Liptons Tea commercial where Bruce Willis is an action hero fighting… The Jeffersons! Awesome.