KiweeCommerce 1.0.0 Ready for Testing#

Hello all,

We just posted v1.0.0 of KiweeCommerce, an e-commerce module for MODx. We still have a lot of work to do on it, but it already does many interesting things. It has a very sophisticated management interface that ties into MODx itself, it manages the shopping cart cycle, supports discount and tax rate lists, extensive product options, etc.

Please take a look. http://www.kiweecommerce.org/

The basics are already implemented, although we haven't yet heavily tested them. This week we'll finish support for tax/discount rates, and next week we'll finish support for shipping estimate calculations.

Let us know what you think! We appreciate comments here, but if you have specific problems or want to file bug reports, please do that on the KiweeCommerce site (above). We have a bug tracking tool there which will make it easier for us to keep track of bugs/feature requests.

Regards,
Chad

Out of left field flies a module that has been wanted and needed since the dawn of the project. Will check out!

That looks pretty incredible.

-sD-
Dr. Scotty Delicious, Scientist.

Outstanding! This is really something, must find out more.

This is all sorts of awesome, going to check this out, thanks!

Woot as Scotty said, two post, two great contribs !
Awesome that's a striking start in the community
If localization is built in, I'd gladly help to translate in french

Quote from: davidm at Jul 31, 2007, 05:09 AM

Woot as Scotty said, two post, two great contribs !
Awesome that's a striking start in the community
If localization is built in, I'd gladly help to translate in french

=) Glad y'all like it. We'll be working hard on bug fixes and new features over the next few weeks. There's still a lot to do.

Localization is supported, but don't start translations QUITE yet. To do localizations we have to overwrite MODx's lang files. We're going to submit a patch shortly that lets MODx have multiple lang files, so module writers like us don't have to overwrite the core file(s), just install our own. Hopefully the core devels will accept it. =) We also want to clean up our own files - they're a little disjointed right now.

Regards,
Chad

Just a quick heads up. Right now Kiwee likely requires PHP5. However, they do plan to make it compatible with PHP4. I am upgrading my test server as we speak so I can toy around with Kiwee.

Hopefully the preview of 0.9.7 comes out soon, so you can make sure this is compatible/optimized with it, and to minimize core hacks you might have to do.

According to a response I received on the forum they haven't tested on WAMP stacks yet.

I couldn't get it to run on my XAMPP setup. I think it has to do with file permissions or paths. I am sure they will work it out. I am soooooo stoked at this project. It is what I have been looking for in a self-managed solution.

Jay

We're working on XAMPP today - that should be finished soon. We're not sure how long it would take to support PHP4 - that's lower on our support list. We've been using PHP5 so long that we need to go back and find all the incompatibilities just to see what it would take to do. We're not suggesting it's impossible, but if it looks time consuming we may defer it until we get some other stuff finished.

We also have some patches we want to submit to the MODx developers. What's the most appropriate way to do this? I've poked around a bit and I'm not sure I have a clear answer. Specifically, we want to submit patches to:
1. Split lang entries into separate files so module developers like us can add langs without overwriting the code file.
2. Add a hook to index.php so we can add our menu entries without having to overwrite that, either.

Want a taste of what's to come? We're sketching out the structure of a module called SnippetBuilder for lack of a better term. If we could get snippet writers to document their snippets in a common format (like PHPDoc) so we can see parameter names and types, we can make a form that lets you build snippet calls (and gives you a cut/paste output box) on the fly. The cool thing is we can do intelligent things, like if you have a startId that needs to be a page ID, or you need to specify a chunk name, we can give drop-downs for those. If you look at the Site Config menu in KiweeCommerce you'll see us doing that already.