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
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.
The term e-commerce framework is related to software frameworks for e-commerce applications. They offer an environment for building e-commerce applications quickly.
The stable 2019.04 release contains some major improvements: Improved core APIs and rewritten frontend controllers XML importer for attributes, categories, customers, products and suppliers Increased performance for complex queries More SEO friendly URLs
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?
The new beta version contains a lot of improvements and focuses on: Even more performance Developer experience Code cleanup
Does an online shop with 1 billion items work on a standard cloud server? And that even with the demand for very low response times? We investigated this question during the #gigacommerce project.
Content commerce, the fusion of editorial content and e-commerce, is a growing area gaining more and more importance for businesses.
Modern PHP applications consists of thousands of PHP files. Even if your own set of files is small, most of the functionality is nowadays provided by 3rd party libraries. Especially composer made it simpler than never before to integrate external libraries and full stack frameworks like Laravel or Symfony contains a lot of them. The Aimeos e-commerce components are not different in this case since this kind of code reuse is the best thing since sliced bread :-)
The TYPO3 caching framework is a great way to speed up your site if your extension needs to perform tasks that can be cached. In the Aimeos TYPO3 extension, we use it to store content like list or detail views of the web shop to get lightning fast response times. Since version 6.2, a cache can belong to one or more cache groups in the caching framework and it enables editors to control more precisely which caches should be flushed. Unfortunately, this features isn't well documented yet in the TY...
The cool thing about the TYPO3 bootstrap_package extension is that you can set up a new site within minutes because everything is pre-configured. This also includes the RealURL setup so you already see the page titles in your URLs and the language parameter value is mapped too.
This article is for Neos 2.0 and thing might have changed in the meantime. At least the software packages are required in newer versions.
After months of development we've felt ready to release the first stable version of our Open Source web shop bundle for the Symfony PHP framework.
Simplicity is key! I think nobody would oppose to this little sentence but in the TYPO3 ecosystem, many things are not very simple - at least not for new users. Even the most popular extensions need a deep knowledge of how to configure them before they can be used. And good documentation is most of time a rare thing!
Extensions are a great way to add features to the TYPO3 CMS and there are extension for virtually everything! Simply download them from the TYPO3 extension repository and install them via the Extension Manager in the TYPO3 back-end. So far so good ...