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Comment on OpenCart Secured Upgraded to 1.4.1 by Ben Maynard

Ben Maynard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:25:56 +0000

Yeah i saw that this morning but had to wait till I got home from work until I was able to upgrade the repository, which has now been done.

Comment on OpenCart Secured Upgraded to 1.4.1 by LeetPirate

LeetPirate — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:38 +0000

Thanks for this release, OpenCart version 1.4.2 is already out. Hope to see a secured version out soon.

Just wanted to make a post to let you know that your efforts are highly appreciated.

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Ben Maynard

Ben Maynard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:06:25 +0000

@Geoff, sounds good, i will be releasing it as open source.

Yeah I saw 1.4.2 had been released today, will update it when I get home tonight from work. (In a couple of hours)

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:14:58 +0000

duh! 1.4.2 now

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:08:09 +0000

Hi Ben,

Id me more than willing to commit a couple of hours per week to help build the front end and visuals, in return for free usage of your solution and being part of its development.

Geoff.

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Ben Maynard

Ben Maynard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:34:09 +0000

@Geoff, Yeah I am really surprised at how well OpenCart has done considering how badly it is developed. I shouldn’t be shocked but I was when I read the upgrade instructions, its is just plain wrong.

I have been working on my own e-commerce solution and at the moment I have the basic framework done but won’t release much information until I have something to show.

It is using a MVC architecture with dependency injection design pattern so the majority of the code can be unit tested. I am also using Doctrine as the database layer. One thing I need help with is the design, as I have no creative bone in my body. So if anyone wants to help with the front-end and back-end design then please give me a shout at ben[at]visionsource[dot]org.

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:47:25 +0000

Cheers Ben your a legend,
Really appreciate you doing this, I love open cart and such as being a front end developer have found it easy to use in comparison to a lot of other commercial based and free based systems out there, to get up and running for small ecommerce jobs.

Unfortunately, open-cart does suffer from not having a strong roadmap and closed development process, and the inclusion of additional features and versions being released on broken and buggy code is infuriating, when all that’s needed is a strong and stable release with core functionality, however this falls on deaf ears within the open-cart development team/individual. (sorry to rant) so if it wasn’t for the generosity of individuals like yourself, us users would really have the wolves at the door so to speak.

Ill be following your progress in the hope that perhaps you may take up the challenge and develop a system that takes the a similar solution to opencart to the next level.

Regards

Geoff.

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Ben Maynard

Ben Maynard — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:34:19 +0000

Cheers for the heads up. I have updated github. Any problems please let me know.

Comment on OpenCart Secured by Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:51:34 +0000

thank you for all your hard work Ben, is really appreciated, now to keep you to your word 1.4.1 has been released as stable lol could you take a look at securing it up for all us non programmers out their.

Cheers buddy.

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Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:51:04 +0000

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