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I contracted a programmer to create a site for me. It's a site where I can centralize other sellers of clothes and show it off via galleries, perhaps you can think of it as ebay without the online payments/bidding, but focused on apparel. The sellers merely post their wares. Buyer transactions are done directly with the sellers off the site. My programmer insists on using Magento. I am researching around and found this site: http://w3techs.com/ and it's pretty useful for a non-techie like me to learn that sites like ebay and amazon don't use Magento.
I've read on other stack threads that using CMS/Magento falls more on the plus side of the equation. I'm ok with that fact, but I would just like to know if it's not overkill to use it for my site, given the functions it will offer sellers-- functions which are way less than what ebay and amazon offer and they don't use Magento?
Though I know it's on the plus side, my concern about using Magento is that it uses up too much resources, thus much much more expensive hosting-wise. I had a hosting company do a costing for 100 visitors and the hosting package recommended to accommodate them is VERY expensive. I am wondering if the hosting requirements would be comparatively lower if the site didn't use Magento?
Thanks for any input. I'm on very unfamiliar territory here.
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I had searched by google and this forum-search and I didnt get any about this so I propose a new topic: WordPress with the ability to fight with Ad-Blocker.
I am not an IT guy (subsea engineer) but I am having website with about 100 - 200 unique visitor/day now (according to adsense) as hobby (1%-4% using ad-blocker - I am lucky to have these ~97% my visitors).
I just learn that ad-block users are about 300 mil and it is a huge problem to big publisher (they earn money from ads). Ad-blocker using bandwith, upload data to their server and some (one of them - I expect more of them) sell the data as anons.
In accordance to the above idea,
I have a question as a-non IT guys, is there a way to make WordPress to tackle ad-blocker (auto)?
It may be a way to disarm ad-blocker. My website is like my home/house. You/Visitors can visit but please consider the owner.
No from what I can tell, it keeps a list of servers which are used to serve advertisements. Whenever you visit any website, the web browser has to fetch the components from the various servers. Adblock simply blocks the connections to any item on its list of ad servers, thus blocking all or most ads. The list of servers has to be updated ever so often which it does in the backend.
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In my day to day work, I code WordPress themes, but have built very complex apps using no-framework php, also have used CodeIgniter to build very large applications, no stranger to node.js, mongoDB(and tons of other KV stores).
So now I need to build an application for a company that sells car parts, it will need:
many products (with full stock management, ability to add products, ability to add shipments of products, each product may have options, such as different sizes, stock counts, pricing tiers)
many clients (with stored client details and each may have their unique discount)
ability for clients to purchase products with pdf invoice generation
history of all actions performed by all users (don't mean clicking page to page, but product additions, purchases, deletions)
I'm thinking there's no point in using javascript/node as there's no need for concurrency, what I'm after is a framework that will save me time during initial setup and in the long run during build and maintenance.
I understand that Laravel is what's hot right now, but I've never played with it and am not sure if learning laravel is more time-effective vs using codeigniter, which I know pretty well (but just doesn't excite me any more).
You have played with Codeigniter, so i guess it will help you here.
You already know how easy it is to setup CI, also it has rich documentation so whenever you are stuck you can help you self.
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I think I get me in a real trouble, because I am working on a LMS.
Actually I need to develop an LMS, a simple one.
My big problem is the Scorm.
I am developing in PHP, and what I want that if I upload the scorm 1.2 course, to be able to track the course.
Or even simpler I need to get the status(if is passed, or incomplete), score, and time.
Any suggestion, links, resources, examples?
Please, help me.
I don't think there is such a thing as a 'simple' LMS, where SCORM is concerned.
It is hard, but it is possible.
The specification for SCORM 1.2 is here -
http://www.adlnet.gov/resources/SCORM-1-2-Specification?type=technical_documentation
It's big, and detailed, and covers everything you need to provide for SCORM 1.2.
However, if you just want something up and running quickly, have a look at some other LMSs that have already been built. There are loads out there, both free and paid.
For an example of how an LMS works, check out http://cloud.scorm.com/, you can play around with it there, and see how it handles things.
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I am working on a news paper website which has epaper facility. I am developing it in php.
Is there any script or something else where I can learn how to make an epaper site.
I want solution like this http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Client.asp?Daily=TOIM&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI&Enter=true&Skin=TOINEW&AW=1333084145015
Please help me out..
ePaper in your context is a web app developed by Pressmart, and it appears to be proprietary, or at the very least not developer-friendly. So I highly doubt there have been advances in PHP libraries for it.
I'm sure as a partner, they have internal documentation and tech support that you can request more information from. They may even have a web API with PHP examples (I've seen worse companies that knew they had to keep up).
This is all info I've gathered in the last 7 minutes, so there may be more out there. But you should always reach out to the developer support of the product if they don't have easy access to documentation, as this is a sure-sign that there is not a large population of developers in the general community that will know what you're talking about, let along give insight.
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I want to know from a technical view if there is any profit of using E-commerce PHP
frameworks instead of hard coding every single detail in the website.
I see everybuddy talk about using those but is there any real profit (not just because it is more easy it should be done no ?) for now i have a project of a commercial site and i have build-ed from scratch the search engine and the navigation system and some other few things any help please (NO VOTE DOwn PLEASE if this is a bad question one comment and it will vanish).
the good things in E-commerce PHP frameworks is that they are well documented, easy to install, full functionality, less to work as updates and upgrades most of the time.
if you want to build one from scrach you should take a note that it could last several months (depends on the size of the project) and you will never know what bugs you have ... as the only person who knows the backend is you.
there is a profit ... since a new one from scrach takes a lot of time and testing ... and time=money ...
Why don't you test, most of them give out demos and there are a lot of them that are open source ...
e-commerce is more of a pain in the ass than you think at first. you have to make a large order form and build validation and sanitation scripts and spend a lot of time making the layout not look like scrap, encryption and SSL integration and then after all that it needs an admin with way too much to account for. i've done this and ... never again.