[TYPO3] tt_products, poor documentations, no support

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] ernst at cron-it.de
Mon Jan 2 22:14:58 CET 2006


Ali - schrieb am 02.01.2006 21:54:

> This e-commerce website was created by Typo3:
> http://www.metabo.de/metabo/de/de/produkte/hobel/800watthobelho0882_6_00882_00.html
> .. The products menu on the right side-bar, this is what I am looking
> for.

There isn't any e-commerce functionality on that site, just a browseble
list of products and details. This doesn't seem like tt_products, it
seems like some custom-made product browser.

> I am not sure if the page was created by tt_products, but I cannot
> think of anything other shop system which can go with Typo3: The
> Webformat shop system is not much a big improvement. The under
> development extended shop system--which has many other names like
> commerce, e-commerce, etc--is not known when to be published. But, as it
> is based on tt_products, it seems to be safe for future migrations.
> Unfortunately, Typo3 doesn't have a promising links to the existing
> well-estabilished shop systems like osCommerce and zen-cart (the link to
> osCommerce seems to be dead, and again with no docs).

Integrating any of those "full-blown" shops has been tried before, but
usually wasn't very productive. Those shops are all a mixture of content
and design and haven't been developed with the aim of "being integrated"
in mind. Integrating this into TYPO3 makes little sense, you can just as
much open up a new browser window or make a IFRAME with the osCommerce
installation. I think the amount of work to be done to integrate these
in TYPO3 outweight the benefit of these integrations. Not to speak that
it potentially has to be done on every update of osCommerce.

So creating a TYPO3-shop which uses TYPO3-features (the TYPO3-page tree,
permissions, database, TypoScript, etc) seems to be the most sensible
solution, as has been done with the Forums before (chc_forum instead of
phpBB).

I haven't followed this project, but I think it just hasn't had that
much pushing yet, probably because noone wants to pay for something that
everybody is going to be using in future for free to make lots of money.
So we have to wait until some crazy freak (maybe a student??) come out
and say "OK, I'll do it" (or not even say anything, but "just do it").
Maybe you have some sponsoring potential? Try that out! Throw in some
money, and get the rats come out of their holes! :)

> nsb_cat2menu could be good option - I am going to try this, however, I
> am not sure if this is what actually people use.

I guess it is, as it has even gained a note in tt_products documentation.

Cheers,
Ernesto



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