Zen Cart
| Original author(s) | Zen Ventures, LLC |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The Zen Cart Development Team |
| Stable release | 1.5.4 / December 31, 2014 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Online store management system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website |
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Zen Cart is an online store management system. It is PHP-based, using a MySQL database and HTML components. Support is provided for numerous languages and currencies, and it is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Zen Cart branched from osCommerce as a separate project in 2003. Beyond some aesthetic changes, the major differences between the two systems come from Zen Cart's architectural changes (for example, a template system) and additional included features in the core. The release of the 1.3.x series further differentiated Zen Cart by moving the template system from its historic tables-based layout approach to one that is largely CSS-based.
Instruction books
- Goh, Koon Hoek (2007). e-Start Your Web Store with Zen Cart. Singapore: Cucumber Media Pte Ltd. ISBN 978-981-05-6591-6. (Officially endorsed by the Zen Cart project.)
- Hardy, Kerrin (2009). Zen Cart CSS Guide - A complete Guide to Zen Cart Stylesheets. Australia: Kerrin Hardy.
- Sarkar, Suhreed (2008). Zen Cart E-commerce Application Development. United Kingdom: Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84719-117-5.
- Laughlin, Jeff (2010). Zen Cart Optimization, 2010. Canada: Jeff Laughlin. ISBN 978-0-9865653-0-4.
- Watson, Kerry; Matthew Therrien (2005). Zen Cart: Building an Online Store the Zen Way. Trafford/On Demand Manuals. ISBN 978-1-4120-6645-7.