What would you choose between Magento , CRE and Zencart? Any Particular reasons ?
Okay so I answer my question, myself quickly after doing a lot of research
1) Magneto is awesome and more or less out of the box
2) CRE is buggy and needs a lot of patches to get things right
3) Zencart ,a lot of modules made for oscommerce, wont work with Zencart )
I think OS Commerce has way cooler templates but in terms of functionaity, Zencart gets my vote, I haven't tried the others you mentioned though
You can view the evaluation I did several months ago at: http://ipicdg.com/EC/evaluation.html. Since Magento has gotten even better.
I agree that magento looked like it had great features but i was unable to set it up in my current host 'readyhosting'. Also, in my attempt to find another host, those too could not handle magento. other than the expensive 'partners' that magento lists as host on their site, can you suggest another 'better' hosting company? i'm trying to find the best value.
I use A2 Web Hosting in a shared environment to host my Magento store. The performance is excellent! Check my website your self > http://ipicpublishing.com/magento/
Yes magento is really awesome, but a bit tricky to install.
I was able to install it successfully after a lot of tries. Check it out at http://www.123triad.us/store/
You don't need special servers or web hosting, as long as your hosting company can enable PDO and PDO MYSQL, you should be good
Rupesh Narvekar
123Triad
that is where i am stuck i can't seem to find a server that has all the requirements. my current host doesn't support pdo and pdo extensions. it seems that there are so many hosting companies out there, i can't find one that has the most value. i'd like php but also asp. i'd like mysql databases . ugh! just a bit frustrating :/
Required PHP extensions for Magento are:
+ PDO_MySQL
+ simplexml
+ mcrypt
+ hash
+ GD
+ DOM
+ iconv
+ SOAP (if Webservices API is to be used)
At 123triad site above, we had everything but PDO MySql,installed, we enabled it and recompiled.
in Addition make sure Safe_mode is off and Memory_limit is set to 32M or more
MySQL should be 4.1.20 or newer and has InnoDB storage engine.
Magento is developed based on PHP so unfortunately Windows based servers cant run them.
Rupesh
123Triad
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