Post by webpie it. » Sat May 07, 2011 8:46 pm

Hi

I have been here for over half a year now, and i love using opencart, such good fun.

I have always noticed the opencart.com frontend site and was curious if this is working on the opencart framework but very customised o work as a cms.

Basically spending so long with opencart now i really want to use the framework as a cms and just turn off all the cart options (until needed as a client wants the chance to possibly combine a shop) maybe wont even use the cart options.

I have seen extensions that are blog...cms which i will get but just curious on what people think on this idea and if someone can tell me what opencart.com use, as it is very nice and love to know!

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Post by twiggy » Sat May 07, 2011 9:06 pm

It's something I have often thought about but never really had the time to have a go at it.

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Post by webpie it. » Sat May 07, 2011 9:11 pm

I am going to give it a go myself, with my next client, its only a small job but seems like a perfect opportunity to have a go at it, if it does not work then, not to worry.

Still curious what opencart.com uses though?

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Post by i2Paq » Sat May 07, 2011 9:27 pm

Opencart.com uses the same Framework as OpenCart Cart.

Daniel has build his CMS around it.

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Post by webpie it. » Sat May 07, 2011 9:37 pm

Thanks Man, I did suspect, maybe in the future Daniel would look into expanding Opencart to providing a CMS system.
Could be called Open Management or soemthing like that ha.

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Post by twiggy » Tue May 10, 2011 5:54 am

i2Paq wrote:Opencart.com uses the same Framework as OpenCart Cart.

Daniel has build his CMS around it.
Not to sure on that? I think hes using wordpress? with this theme http://demo.slimmity.com/cleano/

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Post by i2Paq » Tue May 10, 2011 1:50 pm

twiggy wrote:
i2Paq wrote:Opencart.com uses the same Framework as OpenCart Cart.

Daniel has build his CMS around it.
Not to sure on that? I think hes using wordpress? with this theme http://demo.slimmity.com/cleano/
I'm sure he uses that theme, adapted to work with the OpenCart Framework.

Why do I know this? Because I use the BackOffice when creating documentation and it looks exactly like the OpenCart cart BackOffice ;)

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Post by richard » Sun May 22, 2011 3:51 am

Hi..

You can consider OC as an MVC framework. It is designed as such plus an admin section with functionality you need.
Actually, the admin and catalog folders are independent and you can create a site as a 'catalog' by using the catalog folder structure and use and admin to manage the content.

Just strip off the e-commerce areas and you can consider the products as pages or articles, that way, you can use the product page as the CMS container. Or create pages via the 'information' pages.

That's the beauty of OC - it has modular architecture on top of an MVC later.
It is themeable, have lots of additional modules/plugins, an active community and open-source.

I actually did some sites based on this.

http://videowatchr.com - themes + model class to fetch youtube rss feeds
http://explorephilippines.org - themes + articles are 'products'

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Post by webpie it. » Sun May 22, 2011 3:59 am

It's so strange you said about using the categories as the main pages of the site as that is exactly how i saw it and went ahead with it for a client project and to be honest it's worked out a dream because i spent all this time invested in open-cart i know it better than any mvc framework so i thought, why not.

Love the sites by the way and thanks for posting your 2 cents, really appreciate others thought son tis subject, i think this should defo be looked at by other people in more detail, the potential is massive.

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Post by merry » Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:02 am

Chris, I've done this fairly regularly with other OSC carts with great success, and I would not hesitate to do it with OpenCart as well. The CMS in OpenCart is well done and easy to use as a CMS. I would probably use OpenCart myself for this purpose next time the need comes up.

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Post by webpie it. » Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:26 pm

Thank You very much for reply on the is subject i raised! Since my post here i have actually gone ahead with what i asked, and the results have been fantastic actually! Like you said OC is easy to use and the mods and extensions are getting so intuitive, you ask the question, "Can this and that be done?" and 95% of the time it can.

Pretty much all down to the the creators, and the mods giving really useful info out on here, but massively the community, the community on here is fantastic!

Where i just said:
"Can this and that be done?" and 95% of the time it can.
This is pretty much down to JCSMITHY, who i had met on the forums, his creativeness and talent in this field has blown me away, and his support hes given to me on OC, is just, well First class!

Know a bit off the topic, but worth a mention! He's probably thinking why is he is still on here too(supposed to be on my holiday this week!, lol)]

Again thanks Merry for the insight, and keeping this subject alive

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Post by richard » Thu Jan 05, 2012 4:23 am

It's nice to be back. :)

Been out of the forums for a long time...

I've been using OC's MVC framework on my apps for some time now.
Please take a look at an example here - http://videowatchr.com
Got no problem with it and performs well.

Have to remove some of those related to the cart functionality as well as most of the DB tables.

On the CMS side - you can use the existing information pages as a basis since it has already an HTML
editor, or, you can tweak the product pages too..

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