Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I’m shopping for cms/ecommerce combinations. I don’t know if this thread is still relevant, but I was curious to see if anyone else has made any progress / experience using this combination (Modx / Prestashop).
For cms, i’ve only installed drupal so far (after MUCH reading about the other popular ’Enterprise’ ones like Joomla, Liferay etc) and it seems very powerful (if not exactly clean / fluid). I’m going in the process of checking out Modx as we speak.
For ecommerce / carts I have so far installed magento, prestashop, oscommerce and zen-cart. Prestashop seems to be the leader in being a clean approach. (Magento has flexibility but seems to consume more resources than I could possibly imagine.) I just wanted to say that Prestashop has Authorize.Net support as many others now (I will be using Authorize so I didn’t check for Quantum).
I’m playing with a local Xampp install on Windows, but the host will most likely be Linux.
I’ll post a thread if I get any interesting results.
(I come from a Java EJB / Spring background so ’complex’ is relative Wink
oscommerce and zen-cart are pretty old. If you go back in history both shopping carts were made by the same people. One thing I don’t like about them is that they are terrible to use horrible back-end admin and updates take forever. As for Drupal and Joomla I have tried them both they don’t even come close to modx and how simple it is. I will never build a website the old classic way. Yea Drupal and Joomla have a big following but they are all based on old and tired php code. Its taken forever for Joomla to come out with the next version and it has been around for years longer then MODX. Drupal isn’t user friendly at all and I am a php programmer. The code behind it is very sloppy. But you have to take in consideration that both of these CMS have been around for a long time they have huge following. Some people are too lazy to convert to MODX but if they do they will never go back because MODX makes sence.
