[ic] php alternatives to interchange

Jeff Dafoe interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jan 8 15:29:00 2003


> Is there anything out there written in PHP that even comes close to the
> functionality, security and maturity of IC?

    If you are talking about the default Foundation implementation of
Intechange there are PHP packages which come close to that functionality and
security.  They do not come close in flexibility or scalability, however.
Remember that Interchange is a platform for dynamically-driven web sites and
Foundation is its reference ecommerce implementation.  At the bare minimum,
IC is a preforked perl interpreter with some handy session stuff, at the
most its a serious platform on which you can build solutions similar to what
you could build with six-and-seven-digit solutions like ATG commerce or
Broadvision One-To-One.  You can't really compare IC to a php cart, only the
Foundation implementation can be used for that comparison.

Jeff