Re: [Xshop-developer] current status and roadmap

[Aric C. <gre...@pe...>]

> First of all, what is the current state of phpshop rewrite in xhtml? I
> started a xhtml rewrite too, for a small site, and I'd like to know if it
> would be better for me to stop and use your rewrite.

Well the first step was to get everything converted to use templates.  Most
of the important stuff is now templates, which makes it much easier to
change the visuals, and to write XHTML or even XML, WAP or whatever
templates.  I havent yet tried to make the templates truly XHTML compliant,
but I have tried to keep them validatable as HTML at the w3c validator.

I dont think it would take much more work to get it XHTML compliant.  This
would be a great contribution of anybody wanted to do it, as its not a super
high priority for me at the moment.

The admin interface is a different story.  Its still mostly not templates
yet.  But I figured that wasnt as important as the public part of the site.

>
> I have seen that you are using phplib templates. Beside that, what are the
> main differences with current phpshop cvs tree? Is there a demo site or a
> real site made using xshop? What is the roadmap?

The site for which I am doing all this for (and getting paid for :) is
http://www.bbcwireless.com.  The closest thing I have to a roadmap is here:
http://peoplecatcher.net/article.php3?story_id=34.  I definately need to
make something better, as I have implemented most of what's there plus a lot
more.  There are a lot of new features that arent documented yet.

some of the major features are as follows:

phplib templates and authentication (should work fine with php4 sessions
too).  Will soon be adding a very robust user / perm scheme with multiple
group levels (see the phplib patch at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=617072&group_id=318
85&atid=403613).

Multiple categories to a product ("cross references").

Multiple categories to a category.

Set featured/sale items to appear anywhere (another type of cross
reference).

A more structured navigation system (tabs or links across the top, an
optional nav block showing sub category, and sub-sub categories in the
"body" area... products list below this).

Configurable blocks which can appear on the left or right hand side.
Current blocks are a "mini cart", navigation (category), popular products,
related products, rss (news feed), raw html.  Its easy to extend the classes
and make new kinds of blocks.

search engine friendly urls.  This ranges from 'friendly' (simply changing
all '?' and '&' to '/') to downright 'lick your face like a happy dog'
(changing a url like:
"index.php?page=shop/browse&category=flkh28347t8nasd&product_id=2bh387ug98n"
which means nothing to search engines or humans, into something like this:
"index.php/shop/browse/phones/nokia/3390" which lets a search engine index
important keywords in the url).

Use images multiple times without uploading the same image.  Use an image
select popup window to select existing images.

Images on categories.

Product options.  Create products that can be options to another product.
These then show up as a list of options on the flypage, their price being
added to the product total price.

Currently includes brett's xstats module, but this is going to be replaced
by the much better phpopentracker package.

Simple caching system.  Blocks are cached, and any page can be cached.  Uses
the database or flat files.

That's just what I can think of off the top of my head.

> Thanks in advance,
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