Arrays are the working horse of PHP, the programming language used by the vast majority of web applications. An array seems to be incredible simple to use but things get complicated and ugly when PHP functions for array manipulation come into play. Are you tired of hard to read code with excessive error handling too? Then maps can be the answer.
Read more PHP: Array to Map
The new 2019.10 branch of the Aimeos e-commerce framework with long term support (LTS) contains lots of helpful improvements. The most important ones are:
GraphQL is hot these days! More and more GraphQL APIs appear and especially in the Javascript / NodeJS scene, GraphQL is extremely popular. As progressive web applications using GraphQL are also on the rise (not only in the e-commerce area), we compare how GraphQL and the JSON REST API standard fits for e-commerce applications based on our experience in these areas:
The most important changes in the Aimeos 2019.07 release are:
Every online shop needs to send e-mails and so the Aimeos e-commerce framework does. They are still the best option to confirm the order and tell customers about changes in the delivery and payment status. Nevertheless, even nowadays, creating appealing e-mails for different devices is hard stuff! Software seem to be from year 2000 when comparing support for HTML5 and CSS in e-mail clients.
Most of the time, support is limited for security reasons which is a good thing because compared to web sites you have to visit actively, everyone can send you e-mails. But often, simple features aren’t implemented since more than ten years or are buggy and therefore unusable. Outlook falls into the later category and it seems that Microsoft wants to punish us forever!
The term e-commerce framework is related to software frameworks for e-commerce applications. They offer an environment for building e-commerce applications quickly.
E-Commerce frameworks are flexible enough to adapt them to your specific requirements. As result, they are suitable for building virtually all kinds of online shops and e-commerce related (web) applications like the Aimeos e-commerce framework does.
Der Term E-Commerce Framework bezieht sich auf Software-Frameworks für E-Commerce Applikationen. Sie ermöglichen es in relativ kurzer Zeit komplette E-Commerce Applikationen zu bauen.
E-Commerce Frameworks sind flexibel genug um sie an kundenspezifische Anforderungen anzupassen. Dadurch können sie als Basis für praktisch alle Arten von Onlineshops und E-Commerce bezogene (Web-)Applikationen dienen, wie beispielsweise das Aimeos E-Commerce Framework.
The stable 2019.04 release contains some major improvements:
Aimeos has recently proven to be capable of handling one billion articles and more in an online shop using the #gigacommerce extension. This is far more than the number of articles at the Amazon market place which is currently estimated by around 562 million items. But the sheer numbers doesn’t say anything about the performance so how fast can Aimeos delivery content when users browsing the shop pages?
Read more #gigacommerce – Aimeos shop performance with 1 billion items
The new beta version contains a lot of improvements and focuses on:
