Magento is comparatively a new entrant in the ecommerce arena. But in such a short time (released in year 2008) it has become the most popular open source ecommerce platform. Developed using PHP5 Zend framework, its highly scalable. In just one year, this open source platform has topped the Google search volume trends. Supported by an open source eCommerce software development and consulting company named Varien, Magento is a consistently growing community, comprising approx. 68,000 users and developers.

Recently, Magento was awarded as the “Best new open source project” and “Best of open source enterprise applications” by the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards and InfoWorld.com BOSSIE awards respectively. Comprised with flexible modular architecture, Magento is available with numerous online shop maintenance competencies. With the advent of each new day, Magento is gaining recognition amongst e business owners and web experts. Certain advanced features and characteristics of this CMS are:

1. Analytics and reporting
2. Marketing, promotional and SEO tools
3. Mobile commerce
4. Catalog management tools
5. Multi-shops

We have adopted Magento as the open source offering for our ecommerce clients in addition to SSecom Ecommerce suite. We have launched couple of projects using Magento and many are in progress. For more details on our Magento expertise, click here.

Bookmark this Post:

In dyanmic websites developed using php, asp , jsp, perl etc, including an external file like a html snippet in a file is quite easy. But at times, you may want to include a html snippet in a html file.

This can be done using Server Side Includes (SSI). SSI is a simple server side scripting language used primarily to paste contents of one or more files into another file.

For example, if you have a block of latest news on all the pages of your website. Now everytime, you need to update the news block, you would need to edit all the html pages. The easy way would be using SSI. The news block can be a html or text file like news.txt. You can include this file into multiple SSI-enabled pages throghout the website by placing the code:

<!–#include virtual-”../news.txt”–>

Now you just need to change this one file and the effect will take place throughout the website.

For more details, logon to Wikipedia.

Bookmark this Post: