Is Drupal Ecommerce the best one to go? | groups.drupal.org
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rszrama@drupal.org - Fri, 2008-01-11 14:57
Tosho, let me direct your attention to an article at my website and answer your questions briefly.
First, the article: ubercart.org/drupal-ecommerce [ubercart.org/drupal-ecommerce]
Now, to shed some light on a few things...
"1. Oscommerce was build from the very beginning as a ecommerce platform while ecommerce for Drupal is just an after thought. So Oscommerce is more optimized for ecommerce than Drupal."
osCommerce was built as an e-commerce platform, correct in general. But what that means is it is an entire website system that involves content management (products, pages, info, file, faqs, etc.), handling users (customers, admin), displaying pages, theming, tracking statistics, the whole shebang. And having worked with it for a couple years now, the truth is that it's not good at any of these.
Drupal is a website system that nails most of these things and does it with cleaner code. Core Drupal is more than a CMS, though. It is a base for any web based application that provides greater security, flexibility, and extensibility than rolling your own solution (like osCommerce did) ever will. You can see the details in my article above for more info on that. Ubercart is built on top of Drupal specifically b/c Drupal lays such an awesome foundation on which to build an e-commerce suite."
rszrama@drupal.org's picture
rszrama@drupal.org - Fri, 2008-01-11 14:57
Tosho, let me direct your attention to an article at my website and answer your questions briefly.
First, the article: ubercart.org/drupal-ecommerce [ubercart.org/drupal-ecommerce]
Now, to shed some light on a few things...
"1. Oscommerce was build from the very beginning as a ecommerce platform while ecommerce for Drupal is just an after thought. So Oscommerce is more optimized for ecommerce than Drupal."
osCommerce was built as an e-commerce platform, correct in general. But what that means is it is an entire website system that involves content management (products, pages, info, file, faqs, etc.), handling users (customers, admin), displaying pages, theming, tracking statistics, the whole shebang. And having worked with it for a couple years now, the truth is that it's not good at any of these.
Drupal is a website system that nails most of these things and does it with cleaner code. Core Drupal is more than a CMS, though. It is a base for any web based application that provides greater security, flexibility, and extensibility than rolling your own solution (like osCommerce did) ever will. You can see the details in my article above for more info on that. Ubercart is built on top of Drupal specifically b/c Drupal lays such an awesome foundation on which to build an e-commerce suite."
