Sneak Peek: OpenCart 1.5.0 *ALPHA*

That'll be great Daniel. Cheers.

Sounds like 1.5 should be very pleasant to work on even for those of us who are not deep into coding knowledge. Making things more recognizable and improving the logical layout can only mean good things for people working on the cart at all levels of expertise.

Please correct me if I am wrong. As I understand it if a store owner has a "Multi-Store" setup,
( example 2 stores setup in the same OpenCart database, 2 websites in the same OpenCart database)...

In OpenCart 1.4.9.3 a store owner cannot have different store address information for 2 different stores
a store owner cannot have different store owner email accounts for 2 different stores
a store owner cannot have different payment modules installed for 2 different stores
a store owner cannot have one store up and one store "under maintenance"
a store owner cannot have 2 different PayPal accounts for 2 different stores
a store owner cannot have different other modules (extensions) installed for 2 different stores

When OpenCart 1.5.0 comes out
Will the "Multi-Store" OpenCart setup allow a store owner to?
configure different store address information for each store
configure different store owner email accounts for each store
configure different payment modules for each store
configure different PayPal accounts for each store
configure one store website to up and running and the store website to be "under maintenance"
configure different other modules (extensions) for each store

I dont believe any of the multistore features are changing for 1.5.0.. planned for 1.5.2 or so I think..

The proposal on the table is to remove the "store" table and instead add a "store_id" to the setting table. This will then allow each store to have their own complete settings area.

Is OC 1.5.0 not supposed to be released today? 0_0
I remember Daniel saying that it will be in February..

Qphoria wrote:The proposal on the table is to remove the "store" table and instead add a "store_id" to the setting table. This will then allow each store to have their own complete settings area.

This would really be an excellent addition Q. Multi-Store is one of the most underrated features of OpenCart I think. There is incredible potential for it I believe if each store could have it's own complete settings area. Hope to see it expanded in a future release of OC.

Qphoria and opencartisalright,

Thank you for your replies on the "Multi-Store" topic. I would definitely be very interested in having the ability to have "store" specific settings in one OpenCart database. Just makes sense.

Different stores could definitely sell the same product
Different stores could want to take payment different ways.
Different stores may want to have different modules installed and configured in different ways and differernt locations.
Different stores may have different store addresses and different email addresses.

And underlying it all if the 2 stores are selling the same products it only makes sense to have one database and not two databases to maintain. Thank you again for your replies. I am new to the "Multi-Store" setup concept and was just trying to figure out the pluses and minuses. Looking forward to OpenCart 1.5.0

Oneilus wrote:Is OC 1.5.0 not supposed to be released today? 0_0
I remember Daniel saying that it will be in February..

He later updated and said it will be another week because he forgot feb only had 28 days.

Xsecrets wrote:

Oneilus wrote:Is OC 1.5.0 not supposed to be released today? 0_0
I remember Daniel saying that it will be in February..

He later updated and said it will be another week because he forgot feb only had 28 days.

Ho yeah I saw that bit, but if feb had 31days then today will be the day
no?

I'm only joking just impatient!!

Oneilus wrote:

Xsecrets wrote:

Oneilus wrote:Is OC 1.5.0 not supposed to be released today? 0_0
I remember Daniel saying that it will be in February..

He later updated and said it will be another week because he forgot feb only had 28 days.

Ho yeah I saw that bit, but if feb had 31days then today will be the day
no?

I'm only joking just impatient!!

me too

I doubt it's coming out today.

In fact, I doubt it so much, I'm going to go watch Jersey Shore

mutli-store

Why not just use the current store table but add the store_id and then move the necessary information to the store table instead of over populating the configuration table?

Daniel wrote:

alex1 wrote:

dbstr wrote:I'd still like to see the code ;-)

It was promised by the end of the month which is two more days... just give it a bit.

I think its going to be another week. I didn't remember that there are only 28 days in feb.

But... is that an earth week or an Opencart week....?

Only joking, great work Daniel, and thanks.

SapporoGuy wrote:mutli-store

Why not just use the current store table but add the store_id and then move the necessary information to the store table instead of over populating the configuration table?

Well because the store table is basically a clone of the setting table.. so everytime you want to add a new field in one, you have to do double the work to add it to the other. Gets to be a pain to maintain and there's already too much code duplication in opencart

Ahhh, I see what you are saying.
I was just thinking that having different settings per store in a central location would be good!

maybe i change it.

Daniel wrote:maybe i change it.

+1

there is a lot of stuff in 1.5.0 that people have been nagging me about for a long time.

Daniel wrote:there is a lot of stuff in 1.5.0 that people have been nagging me about for a long time.

Where is it?

Daniel

there is a lot of stuff in 1.5.0 that people have been nagging me about for a long time.

1. Sounds like a lot. Are you thinking of something special?

2. How long more will it take before we can see the fruits of all your hard work??