Comments on: Some thoughts about Zen-Cart http://www.glenstark.net/2009/05/some-thoughts-about-zen-cart Let's talk about the fundamental interconnectedness of all things... Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carlos Kosloff http://www.glenstark.net/2009/05/some-thoughts-about-zen-cart/comment-page-1#comment-4406 Carlos Kosloff Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:51:07 +0000 http://www.glenstark.net/?p=75#comment-4406 Glen, I encourage you to contact the ZenMagick programmer, and follow up with your pledge to help out. He has been handed a huge task, and is unsure on how to proceed. He needs help: participation, involvement with the project, help with development,etc. He is quite certain that he wants to develop ZenMagick as a distributed environment, not as the pseudo-propietary software of 4 epitomes. I am very much aware of what is going on with Zen Cart, and I doubt that version 2.0 will ever see the light. Now, there are grave consequences to this because version 1.3.8a is not compatible with PHP 5.3, so all websites based on it, included those based on ZenMagick, will soon break. Please help to bring about an e-commerce open source solution that will work with new technologies. It is not something that only one person can do, so help him, and take ownership and pride in being a part of the ZenMagick team Thanks. Glen,
I encourage you to contact the ZenMagick programmer, and follow up with your pledge to help out.
He has been handed a huge task, and is unsure on how to proceed.
He needs help: participation, involvement with the project, help with development,etc.
He is quite certain that he wants to develop ZenMagick as a distributed environment, not as the pseudo-propietary software of 4 epitomes.
I am very much aware of what is going on with Zen Cart, and I doubt that version 2.0 will ever see the light.
Now, there are grave consequences to this because version 1.3.8a is not compatible with PHP 5.3, so all websites based on it, included those based on ZenMagick, will soon break.
Please help to bring about an e-commerce open source solution that will work with new technologies.
It is not something that only one person can do, so help him, and take ownership and pride in being a part of the ZenMagick team
Thanks.

]]> By: Carlos Kosloff http://www.glenstark.net/2009/05/some-thoughts-about-zen-cart/comment-page-1#comment-4401 Carlos Kosloff Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:56:59 +0000 http://www.glenstark.net/?p=75#comment-4401 Glen, I have been a regular contributor to Zen Cart and fully agree with your impressions. I would be even more rabid. Thus, I have encouraged the ZenMagick programmer to completely fork Zen Cart and start a new "distro". I have pledged my help and support, but he needs more than just me: money, contributors, programmers, etc. Would you be so kind as to offer support for him in his forums at Source Fourge? He still does not know how to handle the huge job he has been handed. He was forced out of Zen Cart, but still continues to use their codebase, because it is too much for just one guy to take responsibilty for updating the whole code. Now, there is a big problem. Zen Cart is a dead project, it is not compatible with PHP 5.3 and webhosts will soon upgrade their servers to that or higher. I strongly doubt that their much-hyped version 2.0 will ever see the light, so lots of websites will be hanging out in the blue and many store-owners left stranded. This is why I think that it is URGENT to fork Zen Cart and make ZenMagick compatible with new technologies. Please help. Thanks. Glen,
I have been a regular contributor to Zen Cart and fully agree with your impressions.
I would be even more rabid.
Thus, I have encouraged the ZenMagick programmer to completely fork Zen Cart and start a new “distro”.
I have pledged my help and support, but he needs more than just me: money, contributors, programmers, etc.
Would you be so kind as to offer support for him in his forums at Source Fourge?
He still does not know how to handle the huge job he has been handed.
He was forced out of Zen Cart, but still continues to use their codebase, because it is too much for just one guy to take responsibilty for updating the whole code.
Now, there is a big problem.
Zen Cart is a dead project, it is not compatible with PHP 5.3 and webhosts will soon upgrade their servers to that or higher.
I strongly doubt that their much-hyped version 2.0 will ever see the light, so lots of websites will be hanging out in the blue and many store-owners left stranded.
This is why I think that it is URGENT to fork Zen Cart and make ZenMagick compatible with new technologies.
Please help.
Thanks.

]]> By: DerManoMann http://www.glenstark.net/2009/05/some-thoughts-about-zen-cart/comment-page-1#comment-2165 DerManoMann Sat, 02 May 2009 08:30:14 +0000 http://www.glenstark.net/?p=75#comment-2165 If you are interested in improvements to the templating (well a real alternative), most of the features of the announced zen cart 2.0 and a bunch of other goodies you should have a look at ZenMagick (see URL). It's a mod for zencart, which means, you install zen cart and then ZenMagick on top. However, the zen cart people consider it a fork (even though most of the code is new and not modified...), so they kicked the project off their contributions section. Perhaps they got worried about competition. ZenMagick is proper OpenSource - it's hosted at sourceforge (really, not just releases uploaded...) and I welcome people to contribute. Also, it's worth keeping in mind that the OO API can be used from zen cart templates too without the need to write a lot of new code to read/write the database. I'd be interested in any form of feedback. Cheers, mano If you are interested in improvements to the templating (well a real alternative), most of the features of the announced zen cart 2.0 and a bunch of other goodies you should have a look at ZenMagick (see URL).

It’s a mod for zencart, which means, you install zen cart and then ZenMagick on top.
However, the zen cart people consider it a fork (even though most of the code is new and not modified…), so they kicked the project off their contributions section. Perhaps they got worried about competition.

ZenMagick is proper OpenSource – it’s hosted at sourceforge (really, not just releases uploaded…) and I welcome people to contribute.

Also, it’s worth keeping in mind that the OO API can be used from zen cart templates too without the need to write a lot of new code to read/write the database.

I’d be interested in any form of feedback.

Cheers, mano

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