Mango Framework

While surfing around, I stumbled across this article: Top Ten Mistakes of Shopping Cart Design Revisited.

Summary: A list of common mistakes with e-commerce shopping cart design were identified in a previous issue of Usability News. This article revisits that list and reviews how 500 of the top Internet retail sites of today implemented their shopping cart design.

Some good stuff in there. I’ll have to give it some more time later.

Day 99? Yeah, I’m a damn slacker. What can I say. But, I’m back to making progress again it seems. I’ve been spending most of the time lately on the admin controllers and such, which means I had to get the generic stuff somewhat solid. That mostly consisted of:

• Base Controller for Mango::Form loading/mapping/validating
• Models wrapping Providers
• Plugin for I18N merging Mango+MyApp Lexicons
• Plugin for Authorization+user carts/profiles using new Auth API
• Views for XHTML/HTML/Text/Atom/RSS
• File::ShareDir directory with base forms/templates
• Template views use share first, then fallback to MyApp local templates

Now that most of the busy work is done, I’m back to converting what I’d hacked together for Handel back into Mango. It looks ugly as hell, but the admin user/roles/profiles/products/attribute CRUD works and the cart load/update works using the custom auth user objects. I’ll probably finish fixing the cart tomorrow and move on to the wishlists.