[Typo3-shop] TT_shop issues discussion: Technical Diskussion

[Volker Graubaum]

Hi,

>> Prepare for the fact that someone
>> might want to have products handled outside of TYPO3 completely, aside
>> from the actual shop. This will probably enable 'real' uses (as in
>> 'huge shop').
> 
> When someone handles products outside TYPO3 he will have to import his 
> tables and every change into the TYPO3 database or there must be a 
> database connection via the DBAL to the external product database. If he 
> is inserting data from an external database using a Linux cronjob, there 
> must be a shell script for this when he uses e.g. MySQL for the TYPO3 
> shop and ORACLE for his own product system.

We are thinking about different classes for different functions.
So we have an basket class, which provides an API for adding and
deleting "products" and a classe for the checkout.

With this, we've the possibility to change the normal "product" handling
to whatever. The only point is, that "whatever" is using the basket API 
for adding products.

So we can use the shop with other databases and even with other internal 
table, e.g. digital products.

With separating the "order" function. (Order list etc.) Here we could 
also offers downloads or other things.

Greetings Volker