We have about 8-10 e-commerce sites to build. The sites all need customized look and feel, and we would really like to use TT2 as the base templating engine because we have experience with it, and it has worked very well for us on other projects.
We're looking for ways to reduce the amount of coding that we have to do to build these sites, and especially the coding needed to build an administrative backend to allow people to edit content, products, upload images, change prices, edit info pages, etc.. but haven't found anything that is TT2-based that really addresses that. Are there any open source TT2/perl based projects that we should look at that either already has a codebase that implements a good domain model for store sites or that significantly simplifies and reduces the effort of building store sites on top of it? We've used OSCommerce (PHP-based) some, and it has a number of the features we need, but its templates are difficult to work with, and it's (obviously) not TT2/perl based, which we would strongly prefer to reduce maintenance cost. We've looked at Catalyst, but it really seems to be more of a framework for building sites. It has an interesting page dispatch model, but we are having a hard time seeing how it would help with quickly building an administrative backend. Are we missing something here? We've looked at Bricolage, which looks very good at what it does, but seems to be geared toward news sites with rapidly changing content and lots of content writers and editors, which is not a fit at all. We've looked at Krang, but it seems to be more news-related also. We've looked a little at Handel, which seems to be a cart only. We are planning to look at it a little more closely to see if it can be used without Catalyst but with TT2 only and to see if it's worth building the rest of the backend around it. Are there any other perl + TT2 applications or frameworks that might be a better fit? -- Matthew _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [email protected] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
