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Laravel first impressions
Seems to be built on top of Symfony which is why I went looking for other frameworks in the first place. No Symfony, Yii wins.
Better support for database migrations in Laravel? Maybe Larry can add migrations as a chapter in his Yii Book. Seems like it should have received treatment in his chapter on databases at least.
David
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I may be missing the obvious but is there someplace that describes how to install and run the code provided in the example files?
1. I have installed Yii
2. I have created the database and populated it using the sql code provided.
3. I have moved the CMS files over to the protected directories.
4. I have confirmed that main.php has database data for the cms application
So I am thinking everything should be good, except i need a username (email) and password to login. Lost, please help,
David
Shopping Cart Software...Needed?
in Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL
Posted · Edited by damcinnis
Here is what you get when you use a shopping cart provider.
Peace of mind.
Basically all of the backups, bandwidth and network hassles are handled for you. Code only accounts for a portion of an ecommerce site. The other hassles can be overwhelming. Not to mention Security and PCI compliance.
There are other things too; like inventory control, shopping cart abandonment tools, preconfigured access to api's for shipping (UPS/USPS etc), order tracking and CRM to name a few.
The down side always rears its head when you want to do something really custom. Also ecommerce services do a very poor job when selling soft goods like subscriptions, one-off services etc.
My 2 cents. Once your figure your way around, Big Commerce is a pretty nice platform. It gets spendy as you add products. But you can sleep at night knowing that everything is being taken care of.
David