osCommerce
Tuesday, February 15, 2005
I was introduced to osCommerce this week, an open source e-commerce "solution" (i hate this use of the word) done in php. has anyone else used it? i'm working with it for a small project at work and am thinking of using it for future e-commerce freelance projects. the problem is the html it creates. everything is a nested table. when you view the source of these pages... holy crap is it ugly. so i'm planning to go through it and start rewriting some of the functions (yay open source!) to output divs and h1's and whatnot, but i have a feeling that the further i get into it, the more complicated it's going to become.
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading"><img src="images/infobox/corner_right_left.gif" border="0" alt="" width="11" height="14"></td>
<td width="100%" height="14" class="infoBoxHeading">Languages</td>
<td height="14" class="infoBoxHeading" nowrap><img src="images/pixel_trans.gif" border="0" alt="" width="11" height="14"></td>
</tr>
</table>
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" class="infoBox">
<tr>
<td><table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" class="infoBoxContents">
<tr>
<td><img src="images/pixel_trans.gif" border="0" alt="" width="100%" height="1"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" class="boxText"> <a href="/contact_us.php?language=en"><img src="includes/languages/english/images/icon.gif" border="0" alt="English" title=" English " width="24" height="15"></a> </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="images/pixel_trans.gif" border="0" alt="" width="100%" height="1"></td>
</tr>
</table>
it could be so much simpler!
posted by j. Permanent Link
