@openact: The vqmod option is, at least from the first impression, a great thing to have, because just about anyone can try new options without the need to modify existing Source Files. But because there is practically no limit to what some can do -there is no BOSS to 'regulate' Standards- as a consequence of this, hundreds of vqmods try to 'operate' and function in a kind of OPEN environment.
vqmod's call specific Routines, Lines, whatever, in order to -Add, Replace, whatever-, -Before, Instead of, After, whatever- (to) a specific piece of Text Line, wich is existing in JUST exactly the way it is written on the File to be 'temporarely altered' before it's content is to be sent to Output.
This is VERY SIMPLE STUFF. Basically. And as long as nobody else EVER Makes any modification on that specific Line, or even add's another exactly SIMILAR Piece of Line anywhere else, possibly even above the one mentioned, on that File, And as long Nobody ever creates another VQMOD wich is able to modify or change the Temporary Stored Content of what will be finally sent to the Visitor as Page Content, before the VQMOD is even Part of the Game, because the Server will call it AFTER another VQMOD has already modified the Server TEMP File to it's latest version and so the later VQMOD will not find it's OWN Line anymore and will therefore possibly not longer function.
Or worse, another VQMOD has been poorly written and misses b.Ex. -?>- -</div>- or other important things...
I have written a posting regarding this here:
http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php ... 40#p488347
Personally, I would rather upload 4 to 6 'modified' Standard-Files into present Subdirectories, using a simple install/backup Script with the Ability to add a _ or whatever to the existing File Name Ending before uploading the new modified one. But doing it this way, anybody could just download the best stuff and soon, we would have millions of new Stores all over the Place.
OpenCart has a lot of good stuff in it, but during the years, it grew into a relatively 'fat' and slow Baby. I would not like to try to run the Software on a Pentium2 Server from a decade ago, it would probably require multiple seconds to create a Product Page. Locally, not past the Web! An unbelievable Situation for a Guy used to Auction Product Pages loaded within 10's of a second, or sorting /displaying 10'000 Item-Lists just like that. As I wrote, I know, there was little Glamour, not much moving Stuff on the Page, and certainly no Facebook/Youtube-Mod's. Other than that, I really do not see so much Difference, both Sources have, by Nature of the OS, Dis- and Advantages.
So much to VQMOD's, the way I look ad it. I don't want to raise a dispute about it either, it's everyone's own choice. I just felt to tell you what I do here with OS. I think I can make it to be a very efficient tool to meet the Expectations of the somehow typical swiss/german Consumer Group. (I mean the german-speaking Swiss only...)
But this does not belong here..
rgds,
Ernie
