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...
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 vir...
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 si...
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...
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. The #gigacommerce setup contains 1 billion articles, which are combined into 10 million products. ...
Content commerce, the fusion of editorial content and e-commerce, is a growing area gaining more and more importance for businesses. We have been on the first European Content Commerce Summit in Leipzig (Germany) for two days spotting the latest trends and and held a session about Aimeos as solut...
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 o...
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 be...
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. Neos is well known for its well designed interface for editors who quickly fall in love with the system. On the other hand, it's also infamous for being hard t...
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. The shop bundle enables software developers to integrate e-commerce functionality into their applications immediately. Pre-configured pages and a comp...
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 ...
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 ... Often, the remaining tasks of configuring the...