Quick question. Does anyone know any good Shopping Cart applications out there that allows you to throw the application into a pre existing template. My company uses X cart, but I dont like it. I feel it takes too much time because I have to go through all the heavily nested html and turn all of the tables into divs and lists. then I have to make the entire store look like actual site (the none shopping cart part of the site) I feel this takes alot of my time and the companies time. It would be nice if I could use an application, where I can use my pre existing template and then throw an include into the body that displays the store.

I have found a few cart applications that did that, but alot of the code was encrypted and they didnt let you modify features for the application.

I just want a cart that is easy to apply to a pre existing template.

That is very flexible in allowing you to change pretty much anything

And has tons a cart features to take advantage of. anyone know of any good ones.

    Have you looked at Zen Cart yet? It claims to have "XHTML 1.0 compliant - nearly table-less layout" for the catalog templates, and is open-source.

      No i didnt. is the whole application a template where I have to customize it to look like my website. Or can I just use my template and just drop some code in that calls different layouts for the page such as a side bar and featured product list.

        It's been a few years since I did anything with Zen Cart. Between the fact that I don't remember much of it any more plus the fact that I think they've revamped a lot of its output/template system, I'll have to leave that to those who know more and/or your own experimentation. I believe the forum on their site is pretty active, so you might want to search it, too.

          What do you use for your shopping cart. Do you make your own ?

            NogDog wrote:

            It's been a few years since I did anything with Zen Cart. Between the fact that I don't remember much of it any more plus the fact that I think they've revamped a lot of its output/template system, I'll have to leave that to those who know more and/or your own experimentation. I believe the forum on their site is pretty active, so you might want to search it, too.

            What do you use for a shopping cart, do you make your own ?

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