Post by nepsilon » Thu Jun 23, 2016 12:32 am

I have installed Opencart on Digitalocean, setup everything, the page is Taimyrstore.com
However since my knowledge of opencart is very fresh i am curious of few things.

Before anything, i am developer that has implemented payment gateways/methods several times in the past.

My question is the following:

If i choose to buy 2 extensions from opencart offerings, Sofort and Stripe, Upon installation, will it automatically install every nessesary thing including frontend elements ?
To make it short, are the extensions install and go or you need to develop further things?
Do they also depend on the Template frontend code setup or by default templates must follow the same html structure as opencart needs them to ?

last thing
I know this is not for payment related issue but i dont want to bombard the forums with lots of posts.
Regarding email system, opencart is using Mail() php function. If i get mandrill and mailchimp for an example, hooking them up should be only adding smtp params and thats all ?
Or is Mandrill at all a good compatibility for Opencart ? Is there anything that you can suggest to me?

Thank you very much in advance and with big hopes that i can manage these 3 issues and finally start the shop live mode.

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Post by IP_CAM » Thu Jun 23, 2016 9:26 am

To make it short, are the extensions install and go or you need to develop further things?
Well, to make it short too, to 'generally' talk about Extensions, forget it ! ;D
This is an OPEN Source Software, meaning, that, basically, nobody is bound on anything, codewise, especially, when it comes to Custom Themes. Exept for basic/common Variables, required to make the Baby understand it's own, default Functions. One could even create a single file, for certain functions, doing it all, in a single language, currency, e.t.c. ;)

But if you want to play around, by use of other Code/Software, you have got to be a Coder, familiar with the OC-used MVC+L framework Structure,and relatively fluent in PHP/JS/JSON/CSS/BOOTSTRAP - Coding. Otherways, you have to get commercial Support, when it comes to exchance COMMON OC-Things with others.

Good Luck ;)
Ernie

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