[Typo3-dev] Zencart Extension

[Gabriel Anast]

Gene--

>It was a terrible start for a new week.
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Hey, you have a wife that takes a lot of interest in you... that is a 
GOOD start to any week, despite incidentals. :) [voice of experience...]

>There were several reasons for choosing Zencart...
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thank you...

>Ian Wilson does want to move Zencart to OOP in 2.0.
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This is, perhaps, the most interesting point...

>Sixth, I like the clever way they allow new contributions to be absorbed
>into the core by enumerating the contents of selected directories. We do
>this a lot in Mambo, so the approach was easy to relate to. I hope to see
>them improve and refine this approach until it's possible to add new classes
>to expand the core on-the-fly.
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Do you have links on the discussion about this either at mambo or at 
zen-cart?

Finally, I think that Gary pointed out one of the most important 
differences (off list). That being: osCommerce does not use views 
through index.php, but actually calls any of about 50 different files to 
generate pages. Zen-Cart on the other hand solely uses index.php making 
it much easier to pass variables between it and a CMS, or other application.

--gabe