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Phoenix wrote

btw, I'm thinking of tidying up the Emporium (shopping) module. I have had it functioning a very long time but left it hanging coz it was a coding, compliance and query nightmare - apart from those trivial issues it's pretty good ROFLMAO

I'd hate to see what you considered to be a non-trivial item!

Speaking of the Emporium is this the one from burnwave.com or one that you've written yourself? Either way, if you're going to pick back up on the development of it, then I'll close down the Storefront project and move on to something else. Don't need to be duplicating efforts here.

Rayvenhaus wrote

Speaking of the Emporium is this the one from burnwave.com or one that you've written yourself? Either way, if you're going to pick back up on the development of it, then I'll close down the Storefront project and move on to something else. Don't need to be duplicating efforts here.

Yes, I had it started and Kyle expressed an interest in it, so I just did bits and pieces since he was running with it, plus I had my own Resources module that I could tailor to meet most needs.

It's been a rather large bare shelf in the DragonflyCMS module cupboard for a long time now, so I thought it was time to finish what I started. The functionality of the module is really very good but the "trivial" issues are real site killers.

Query wise, it's not quite as bad as NukeC classifieds was when I started (reduced from 440 queries down to 5, and I can take that down to 3) but it's caused by the same coding approach.

There are two great shopping programs out there, Zen and Cube, but integrating them is just too messy (for now), so people are left with linking to standalones.

I was playing with MS Topsites (Pro v2.3) but I put that on the back-burner when you ported topsites.

Well, still lots of work needed, but essentially Storez is now fully operational

Features to be added/completed:
- coupons
- product uploads
- instant downloads
- affiliate commissions
- streamline ordering process
- query optimization
- non-compliances
- templating
- tableless

So, how do we download and test it out?

hmm, I was just going to refer you to the sticky topic explaining that but it seems that was one of the topics lost by my previous host when they corrupted my database and also deleted my backup files.

I had asked people to PM me with a request, rather than numerous requests in the forum - you should receive an advice in your mail