Katyshop is an easy e-commerce solution written in PHP with MySQL. The code is object oriented with a very simple and clean architecture, making it easy for the programmer to work on customising the database or changing design.
« topPlease note this is an alpha release, meaning the application has not been yet thoroughly tested on many implementations, so it surely can have a lot of bugs not yet discovered and solved.
I tried to write a simple and small code, making it easy for the programmer to learn fast and work on this project, either by customising the design for simple customer implementations, or by further changing / developing the database and adding new logic objects.
This is what makes it different from other existing e-commerce solutions, because many of them are not object oriented, or they use a heavy amount of classes and functions, difficult to learn and to work on.
« topThe following business features are implemented:
The architecture is similar to Java / JavaBeans / JSP making sure the code is very organised and clean. You can distinguish three layers:
All scripts that process POST data sent by user forms are placed in /web/formparser (and also /web/admin/formparser) folders, to make sure the programmer has strict control over the code that commits changes to the database.
Use of global variables is not encouraged, however the need to pass data between scripts is solved by static getters and setters methods implemented in Application class.
Another feature is software portability: it can be used on both PHP4 and PHP5 versions, and is backward compatible with mysql 3.23. On PHP, it is independent of server settings magic_quotes_gpc. Objects cloning also works the same on PHP4 and PHP5 when using copyFromObject() method of LogicObject class. You can install this software using any domain name, such as: