Aimeos 2020.10 LTS release

Posted on October 29, 2020 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

The new 2020.10 release with long term support contains a lot of polishing and some features users and developers have been asking for. But one of the most important changes is related to the documentation, which has been greatly improved! Feature-wise, the most important additions are:

Complete product rating and review system incl. JSON API
Home page component
Price facet filter
Date/time range filter in admin backend
Simplified getter in context
Better log entries for SQL statements
Official Laravel 8 support
Full AWS support

Aimeos 2020.07 release

Posted on July 22, 2020 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

The new Aimeos feature release contains some long-awaited new stuff for developers and customers alike. What you get by using the 2020.07 release among various minor improvements and bugfixes is:

PDF invoice in order confirmation e-mail
Supplier CSV import
Improved admin backend for mobile phones
Better full text search and URL segments
Official TYPO3 10 support
Simplified manager and criteria filter methods

Aimeos 2020.04 release

Posted on May 18, 2020 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

2020.04 is the first stable release this year which contains a lot of changes and improvements. The most important one are:

Slick and clean frontend theme
Better admin interface usability
Major performance improvement when using MySQL
SEO improvements and support for fractional quantities
Cleaned up templates for the HTML client
Full SQL Server support
Requires PHP 7.1 and PHP Map object
Retrieve related items more easily

PHP: Advanced map methods

Posted on March 11, 2020 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

The PHP Map package contains many methods to ease your day to day work. They are extremely helpful in a lot of situations where you’ve written custom code up to now. This tutorial explains some of the most useful ones you don’t want to miss any more!

10 Essential Ecommerce Trends to Look for in 2020

Posted on January 22, 2020 by Tati — No Comments ↓

The first e-commerce transaction was in July of 1995. That was a book by Douglas Hofstadter named Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies priced at $27.95

Fast forward a quarter of a century, and in 2019 the revenue stood at a staggering 3.4 trillion dollars. It is projected to almost double and touch $6.5 trillion by 2023.

PHP: Array to Map

Posted on December 7, 2019 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

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.

Aimeos 2019.10 LTS release

Posted on October 23, 2019 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

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:

AI-based translation of texts with DeepL
Customizable product datasets
Manage multiple tax rates
Watermarks for images
Bulk delete and reorder items
Bulk order form for B2B and B2C
Add new columns/properties to managers/items easily

Read more Aimeos 2019.10 LTS release ›

GraphQL vs JSON:API for e-commerce

Posted on September 11, 2019 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

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:

Ease of implementation and use
Performance and scalability
Reading and writing data

Aimeos 2019.07 stable release

Posted on July 29, 2019 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

The most important changes in the Aimeos 2019.07 release are:

Responsive images
Responsive e-mails with MJML
Multiple tax rates per price
Customizable XML order export
Address management in user profile

Responsive emails with MJML in Aimeos

Posted on June 18, 2019 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

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!