Php is an open source application development platform and offers many benefits to online business as a form of its functionality rich and robust e-commerce application. Open source e-commerce is very useful for small and large businesses and minimizes the cost of development.
Here are few of most popular and function rich e-commerce application development tools developed in Php to support E-commerce website development. Know the future scope of php development and it’s growth rate in India.
Opencart – Open-cart is one of the most managed and easy to develop e-commerce application in Php application. Open cart has a wide and very supportive community and support more than 8 methods of shipping as well as 20+ payment gateway in default downloads. You can also design easy to manage multiple online shops from one admin interface in Opencart. Its directory has more than 2700 themes.
Prestashop – Prestashop is another popular open source web application written in Php and used to develop e-commerce application using smarty templates. Prestashop offers many features like cross selling, product download, on page checkout, shipping discount and many more features which make it reliable and useful to develop e-commerce application. Prestashop is used in 160+ countries and supports 60 languages.
Oscommerce – Os Commerce is one of the oldest e-commerce applications developed in Php. More than thirteen thousands online stores are built in Os commerce. Os commerce is suitable to use with Php and My Sql server.
Zencart – Zencart is another one of the oldest Php application used to develop e-commerce application. Zencart is basically an extension of Os commerce with extended feature and rich in extensions.
X-cart – X-cart is another e-commerce application developed in 2000 and written in Php. More than thirty thousand websites has been developed by using X-cart. X-cart offers shipping carriage integration like FedEx, Ups and others. X-cart has in site payment modules to ensure fraud screening.
Woo Commerce – Woo Commerce is a popular Php based application to develop e-commerce website. It enables to convert WordPress websites to e-commerce stores. Woo Commerce is one of the most popular and easy to develop e-commerce web application and are used to develop small as well as large web stores. Woo Commerce is rich in huge repository of theme and plugins.
Drupal Commerce – Drupal is an open source web application tool used to design e-commerce websites by Php. Drupal is an organised and manage application which keeps track of orders, receipt, payment and invoice along with the integration of different options for shipping and payment methods. Drupal is a Content Management System by Php and offers complete administration system required like checkout form and multicurrency. It also offers integration of social networks.
Virtue mart – Virtue mart is a Php written e-commerce application which was previously known as mambo Php shop. It is a plugin for mambo/Joomla that supports extension like Zlib, XML and My Sql. Virtue Mart is suited for e-commerce website having low traffic.
Jigoshop – Jigoshop is a popular Content management system developed in same as WordPress. Jigoshop was released in 2011 and used to develop e-commerce website for small and medium enterprises.
Zeuscart – Zeuscart is another popular e-commerce application developed in Php and is very easy to use and develop website in it. Zeuscart interface is easy to understand that even a non technical person will be also able to develop e-store website for himself with few effort.
Magento – Magento is most powerful and popular e-commerce web application tool written in Php these days and most of the e-commerce website these days are being developed in Magento using Zend framework. Magento supports lots of extension and have plugins available for every solution like booking, shipping and payment gateway.