Hi everybody
I have a stupid question and sorry for that.
It is possible make a ecommerce with Xojo Web ?
thanks
Alan
The simple answer is yes, but it might not be the best/right tool for the job you have in mind, care to elaborate?
Yes it is and it’s something that I’ve been thinking about, but I don’t have the time to do. Besides I’m pretty happy with Paddle.com, they deal with the transactions and then call my Xojo made web application that generates the serial number.
The integration with html, css, and javascript may accomplish a good result? What will be this result?
Opencart, prestashop, zendkart or similiar ? Or?
Alan
If your design is akin to a desktop app then you’ll be fine, if you want something more like a “regular” website, then not really.
[quote=325561:@Alan Castellana]I have a stupid question and sorry for that.
It is possible make a ecommerce with Xojo Web ?[/quote]
The stupid answer is yes.
Now the intelligent question is : what kind of ecommerce are you considering ?
I Michel
well im thinking at something like openkart or prestashop, so the intelligent answer will be?
[quote=325579:@Alan Castellana]I Michel
well im thinking at something like openkart or prestashop, so the intelligent answer will be?[/quote]
I suppose you mean OpenCart, not the store in Dubai. These shopping karts have been developed for years and work I suppose perfectly enough to have gained a reputation. I would not dare trying to copy them.
On the other hand, if your question is “can I integrate these shopping karts within one of my apps”, the reply is “probably yes”.
From what I see, OpenCart is in Php and can be interfaced with most any HTML page. Which intrinsically, Xojo’s WebPages are.
So, yes, you can very well install OpenCart and a Xojo app on the same server at the condition it supports Php and Xojo. Which is the case for ServerWarp from 1701Software. AFAIK Xojo Cloud does not support Php.
Now, the most important is not so much the shopping cart, but what your needs are.
Michel
thanks for your reply
eCommerce is a very generic term, but covers many different kinds of interfaces. It is not the same thing if you sell for instance socks with different sizes and colors, and a program for download.
You must first try to sort out what you will sell, what the kind of typical transaction is, and that will help you define what your needs are.
Well in this case i think that what im selling is not important. If it is possible develop ecommerce using php, html , javascript etc, and an ecommerce is a web application as well, why is (“seems more difficult”) with Xojo that claim to be (Xojo Web) a very good tool for web application? If i use your plugin for make website or web application responsive , and paypal plugin for xojo and so on , wye shall be so hard to make a good product? Also Xojo claim to be faster than other development tool, so at this stage what is reality with the xojo web part? It is possible only in theory? Because theory is not good enough for me.
Is or not a good solution or an alternative to other tools like NetBeans or similar?
What is clearly thought out is clearly expressed.
You ask a far too general question to get a straight answer. You are the one using the expression “seems more difficult”. I never said such. As a matter of fact, it is possible to do pretty much anything in Xojo Web. There may be technical limitations, but the development environment is extremely powerful.
Do you want to develop a Xojo solution for yourself, or do you want to create software that you sell for eCommerce ?
Are you already familiar with the different kinds of eCommerce ?
My point is not that it is inherently difficult to do anything. It is that you must first define exactly what you are after. Then it will be easy.
From your very questions, I cannot help but sense that in fact, you are still very much at the theoretical stage. You go all over the map. From prepackaged shopping carts to Netbeans, Php, I am sorry, but we are talking apples, oranges, and passion fruit here.
Try to narrow your goal, and we can very easily determine what Xojo’s strong points are.
Hi Michel
First of all my intent here is not fight you , i’m not interest on it.
Second i believe we are living in a free world , so any opinion has to be accepted , without getting angry or irrespective
If you have time to read more carefully , my “stupid question” was and i quote “It is possible make a ecommerce with Xojo Web ?”
So the possible answers to my very stupid question is ; YES or NOT
From my side there is no grey zone (maybe from your?) because an answer like “yes it possible with kind of limitations or difficulties” is a NIT and not a YES and this is not good enough form me, specially if the development tool in this case (XOJO WEB) has a relevant cost, in alterative free development tool like NetBeans that allow make ecommerce as is well known.
What kind of ecommerce im thinking to develop or kind of product i want to sell, is not relevant here, because my very first question was and i quote again “It is possible make a ecommerce with Xojo Web ?”
So from my side i narrow the goal from the very beginning
Thanks
P.S im going to buy you plugin so i will contact you later
Bye
Alan, I am not fighting you, I am simply trying to get you to better define what you want to achieve.
[quote=325665:@Alan Castellana]What kind of ecommerce im thinking to develop or kind of product i want to sell, is not relevant here, because my very first question was and i quote again “It is possible make a ecommerce with Xojo Web ?”
[/quote]
Answer is [h]YES[/h]
But please, when you ask successively about prepackaged shopping carts, then integration with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and a bit later about NetBeans, understand that the complexity prevents simple answers.
I am trying to help you here. Sorry if that got you angry.
Michel i’m not angry at all do not worry, instead thank for your time to figure out what are mine needs.
Also as i’m Italian, get my write understandable can be hard, so sorry for that.
Thanks
Don’t worry. Your English is understandable.
[quote=325675:@Alan Castellana]Also as i’m Italian, get my write understandable can be hard, so sorry for that.
[/quote]
don’t worry, Michel is French ! 
(and has a very fluent english)
Between Spanish and French, I can somewhat understand written Italian, but I would not venture writing into it
@Alan Castellana the term “eCommerce” can mean many things. That’s the part that makes it not a narrow question. You still haven’t defined what aspect of eCommerce you mean.
Accept payments on your website?
Make a shopping cart for your website?
Build a complete eCommerce application to sell to others?
The first 2 are easy. The third is much more complicated (and I wouldn’t use Xojo for it, but that’s just my personal opinion, not based on technical barriers).