Thanks.

The ZenCart integration is (fairly) superficial. No user database sharing, and products are added/managed through ZenCart’s UI. I think we wrapped the Snowleopard look around the ZenCart UI, though.

And, our one “clever” integration trick is that if you abandon you cart and go back to the main (Plone) Snowleopard site, it uses a cookie to remind you that you still have a cart waiting for you.

I’m using Plone for a collection of Non Profit sites and am interested in implementing an online shop. Ultimately i’d like to use a plone based solution but using an integrated Zen Cart could be an option too.

I’m just at the stages of investigating this but how deeply did you integrate Zen Cart into Plone? I haven’t looked at Zen Cart much but have installed and tried to configure OSCommerce (which Zen is based on) so have an idea of the database structure.

Do you use Plone to add products and is the user database shared or is it mainly a cosmetic thing?

Thanks

Ben

Adding/managing photos is Plone-easy — the photo galery is a very thin wrapper around ordinary ATPhoto objects, which are part of the Plone core, and thus fully managable using all the usual Plone-foo that we love so much.

Plone 2.1’s new Archetypes based photo objects should provide the foundation for a robustly scalable photo gallery (BTreeFolders can handle hundreds of thousands of objects, with filesystem storage), but it’s pretty “thin” in terms of whiz-bang chrome. The best standalone photo gallery app I know is Gallery (http://gallery.menalto.com), which has lots of whiz bang. Downside: doesn’t integrate super-tight any CMSes you’d actually want to use.

Good work, as usual. I like the slideshow, too. Wonder how easy that is for folks inside the organization to manage, add to, etc.

Photo management comes up again and again. I’m currently looking around for a rather full-full featured Photo Gallery system for a large group with many thousand photos.