[geeklog-devel] GSoC 2010 idea - E-Commerce/Shopping Cart plugin

Fri Apr 9 20:14:32 EDT 2010

Have you guys looked at the glfusion SVN tree - there is a plugin that never
got finished but is almost complete that you could reuse instead of starting
from scratch. At least at the very minimum take a look. I'll post the
thread:

http://www.glfusion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=14490

If you follow the thread you'll see it was almost ready for release and then
we decided not to go with it and no one else picked it up for development -
although many want it.

I think you'll be quite surprised at its maturity. Of course it's all
opensource.

Anyways, just saw this come through and thought I'd comment.

Good luck!

-          Marco

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Deshapriya
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 11:50 PM
To: Vincent Furia
Cc: Geeklog Development
Subject: Re: [geeklog-devel] GSoC 2010 idea - E-Commerce/Shopping Cart
plugin

Sorry about that last silly sentence, I wasn't paying proper attention to
what I was writing. :(

Of course new user groups can be added, right?

Would this require new access rights to be added as well? I was thinking
maybe a function to add new access rights could come with the plugin.

Thanks!

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Ramindu Deshapriya <rasade88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Ok. From what I understand, you recommend that I add specific user groups
that will have access to different parts of the store. E.g. 'PC sellers'
group will have access to add products to the 'PC' section of the store. 

The store owner should have the ability to create new usergroups based on
whatever sections he or she has included in the store.

Wouldn't this require changing the core libraries? Specifically, addition of
new values to usergroups arrays?

Thanks a lot.

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com> wrote:

Ramindu,

I'd definitely include that with your proposal. I know time is short, but
you may want to consider the use of Geeklog's permission system for store
"sections" (I'm not sure of the terminology, perhaps categories?) or even
individual products. Though the implications of doing so need to be thought
out, it may prove beneficial to allow certain users (sellers) to modify
and/or submit items to be sold. Also, you could use the permission system to
limit what categories/items are viewable by which groups of users.

Just some out there ideas to consider.

Thanks,

Vinny

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Ramindu Deshapriya <rasade88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hello and thank you very much for your comments.

I did a whole lot of thinking about how to handle permissions a while back,
then completely forgot about it. :O

What I thought was, I would create a separate admin group known as 'Store
Admin' which, along with Super Admin (Root) would have complete rights to
edit the store, add products, manage sales,view overall statistics etc. This
'Store Admin' group will be added only if the plugin is installed.

Normal users would be able to purchase goods and manage their shopping
carts, of course.

What do you think? I will add the outcome of this discussion to the
proposal.

Thanks!

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com> wrote:

Ramindu,

Dirk and I have left comments attached to your proposal in the GSoC web app.
Let us know if you have any questions.

-Vinny

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Ramindu Deshapriya <rasade88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hello,

I have submitted the proposal to the GSoC site.

If there are any last minute adjustments that you would like to see made to
it, I would greatly appreciate your feedback about it.

Thanks!

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Vincent Furia <vfuria at gmail.com> wrote:

Ramindu,

That is a great outline. I'd suggest (likely under the banner of security
measures) considering how the e-commerce system can integrate with Geeklog's
security model (e.g. groups, access rights, ownership, etc).

Ideally, I'd like to see a plugable payment system. That way users can
choose from several options or implement their own. Whether that is
supported by VirtueMart, incorporated through another open source project,
or coded by you should probably be included in your proposal.

-Vinny

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Ramindu Deshapriya <rasade88 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hello,
VirtueMart contains separate modules for payment and shipping. It also
contains a host of features which make it more like a CMS within itself. :|
I was wondering what exactly should be the features that I should port over
to Geeklog? I was thinking on the lines of,

*	Creation of sales item lists with descriptions, images etc
*	Online payment via payment gateways such as Paypal
*	Shopping cart functionality, adding items to the cart, removing,
maintaining cart over a session
*	Database tables containing details of previous purchases
*	UI implementations such as AJAX-based pop-up item descriptions
*	Security measures - encryption etc

Anything else that should be added?

I am in the process of writing the proposal, and need to include which
features I will be carrying over to the Geeklog plugin.

Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

Vincent Furia wrote:

>You can find what we're looking for in your application/proposal on
>the Geeklog GSOC homepage here:
>http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_org/google/gsoc2010/
>geeklog/geeklog

Which is the same page that you end up on when going via the list of
accepted orgs:

 http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2010/geeklog

But the URL is shorter :)

bye, Dirk

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