Developing Mambo/Oscommerce addons. And new AJAX API Module

forestcall · September 2005

Hi-

Thanks all for such great work! I was about to devlop using SugarCRM and found vtigercrm posted in a forum.

Koodos to the developers who created this software.

We are developing two major addons. And new AJAX API Module/Addon.

1)- Mambo-Complete Mambo Integration as a Mambo Component. UserDB, Menus, Forms, Forums, Gallery, etc.

2)- Oscommerce- complete database integration. All aspects of oscommerce will be maintinaed via vtigercrm.

3)- AJAX For Mambo, vtigerCRM, scommerce. Complete code makeover to integrate AJAX. This is the most complex and will not begin until Jan. 2006

My company is making a modification so products can be added to Oscommerce via the vtigercrm GUI.

Easypopulate is the current method for adding hundreds of products and categories from a spreadsheet.

For products added via EasyPopulate to the oscommerce db we are building a trigger in the Products section of vtigercrm GUI to populate the crm tables with the oscommerce db.

If anyone has any special ideas of how to make this in the best possible way NOW would be the best time to speak.
Please list all of your ideas.

Our company is making this with a Indian company out of New Delhi, India.
What we do is manufactuer and export construction materials. We work with more than 3000 suppliers. We have 5 websites and are expanding to about a 20 in 2006. Everything from cement, homes, prefab, general building materials, etc. We want to maintain all aspects of our websites via vtcrm.

We are also adding some other features such as bar-code scanning with wireless PDA. And some logistics features we have not fully planned.
But this entire solution is supposed to allow us to manage our operetions remotely. Complete offline abilities. Main thing is better management and lower cost.

We will give some of our additions to the community such as Mambo and Oscommerce Addons.

We would really like to hear from the original developers on this so we can keep to the roadmap and rules, etc.

We will also formaly contact vtiger devlopment team by email for their instructions.

Input from all, pretty please with sugar on-top.

Thanks all!

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Es_PagAn · September 2005

this barcode scanning with the wireless pda, thingy? please give it to the community too <img src="{smilies_path}/icon_cool.gif" alt="8)" title="cool" />

newspec · September 2005

are you planning on developing the mambo link or a joomla link?

as you know, joomla is the new mambo and the two products will soon begin to be different.

i'm currently using oscommerce and joomla as well as vtiger. to have some integration between the three would be great.

please keep us posted.

thanks
steven wales

forestcall · September 2005

we have contacted joomla team to confirm they are putting sincere effort to keeping this an alive project.

to be honest i dont fully understand why the joomla was started?
it seems to be from mambo v423 stable-

was the mambo team not getting along? and thus re-branded mambo?

any information on joomla would be great!

we will gladly use joomla if it makes sense. our main goal is to work with an application that has a large community like mambo. curious how joomla will turn out.

thanks!

jacko · September 2005

i can provide a basic reason that joomla was born; the developers there were upset about restrictions that the 'owners' of mambo (miro) were putting on the development and intellectual property involved.

we - like many i suspect - are waiting to see how this develops. i'll guess that both will have reasonable usage, at least in the short to medium term. the good news is that any component written for the current versions are (or should be) interoperable.

there's also more background at:
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.opensourcematters.org/index.php?option=com_faq&catid=6">http://www.opensourcematters.org/index. ... aq&catid=6</a>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.joomla.org/content/view/14/28/">http://www.joomla.org/content/view/14/28/</a>

scott

alsutton · September 2005

integration with zencart (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.zencart.com">www.zencart.com</a>) as opposed to oscommerce would be probably be good.

we looked at os commerce and it's development looked dead (no new releases for over 2 years), but zencart seemed to be alive and kicking.

DusX · September 2005

this sounds like a great project!

i have been looking at new cart systems.. and have been torn between zencart and litecommerce (<a class="postlink" href="http://www.litecommerce.com">www.litecommerce.com</a>)
anychance a generic type link module could be built that allows fields to be mapped to each other.. depending on the structure of the carts database...
might be able to support basic features in a number of carts this way???
the same type module/plugin might be usefull with integrating the user bases of a cms as well??

anyway it goes i am a supporter of this!

gwyn · September 2005

hi,

this would be a great step forward if oscommerce and vtiger were to be integrated.

i was looking at this but it would just take me too long as i run a business and that is a bit of a full time job.

anyway, donations would be forth-coming, if these two great items of work could be brought together.

just to let you know there is much interest in this project.

regards,

gwyn

r0tt3n · October 2005

forest - i, like richie, am also quite interested to know just how far down the rabbit hole your company plans to go with vtiger + joomla + oscommerce + ajax integration. this would be a truely remarkable accomplishment for the world of open-source e-commerce if this were to happen, especially if the vtiger team continues to work on improving the erp and integrated forums element of its crm releases, as discussed here: http://www.vtiger.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?t=1246

as for your comments about mambo being forked and joomla being the result, i believe mambo was originally not an open-source project, but due to its inherent complexity, the owner (mira) decided to make it opensource and sap the resources of the open-source community. after several years of free development, mira then decided it was time to reign in the free software and start making some serious coin out of it. of course the development community revolted, and thus, all future feature releases from the core developers will only apply to joomla, as mambo is discontinued in the eyes of the open-source world.

and finally, regarding the comments about oscommerce appearing to be dead development-wise, i would concur with this sentiment, although the place where it died was certainly a very powerful one. i eagerly await a powerful integration between joomla, oscommerce, and vtiger, and the whole ajax thing is just a 1-foot-thick icing on the cake as far as i'm concerned - fantastic!!!

r0tt3n · October 2005

woops - i meant i eagerly await a powerful implementation of joomla + oscommerce (or zencart, or any other powerful opensource shopping cart module) + vtiger. there we go.

r0tt3n · October 2005

also, regarding zen cart, it has recently become known to me that joomla is to mambo what zen cart is to oscommerce - a fork with some added features that came about at the hands of a huge developer exodus resulting from poor choices being made from the founder.

thus, i think integrating joomla + zencart + vtiger would be the ultimate way to go.

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