The Activated Ministries website came not long after completing Donate a Car 2 Charity. I was approached by the charity to design a shopping cart system and updated website for them. What they were looking for wasn’t your ordinary OSCommerce shopping cart, they wanted a customized solution that would allow for 2 parallel shopping systems for both Retail and Distributors.
I approached this project with PHP, MySQL and ADOdb in hand. By this time I had enhanced my CCS engine to work with a module based system and was eager to put it to the test.
The result was greatly satisfying. The core of this website actually runs 2 sites, it’s all of the same database with the module systems separated but the database and inventory central. I accomplish this by symlinking the core directory which manages the user system and database access. All site specific instructions are raised via flags in the code.
It actually looks like I will be revisiting the code of this website in the near future. I want to take a much more aggressive OO approach to the core system and make a single object with abstract objects to control all features of the site. Wish me luck.
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