Zen Cart

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Zen Cart
Original author(s) Zen Ventures, LLC
Developer(s) The Zen Cart Development Team
Stable release
2.0.1 [1] / 2024-05-19 [±]
Repository
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Online store management system
License GNU General Public License
Website www.zen-cart.com

Zen Cart is an online store management system. [2] 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. [3]

Contents

History

Zen Cart is a software fork that branched from osCommerce in 2003. [4] [5] 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. [6] 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.

Plugins

As support for Zen Cart dropped in recent years, many third party companies are creating Zencart plugins and modules [3] that can help users solve problems like installing reCAPTCHA v3 [7]

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References

  1. "Zen Cart 2.0.1 Released". www.zen-cart.com. sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
  2. Rongbo Zhu; Yan Ma (13 November 2011). Information Engineering and Applications: International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA 2011). Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 618–. ISBN   978-1-4471-2386-6.
  3. 1 2 Ltd, Numinix Web Development. "Zen Cart Plugins by Numinix". Numinix. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
  4. Liv Montgomery (1 April 2011). Online Business Promotion. AudioInk. pp. 115–. ISBN   978-1-61339-043-6.
  5. Eddie Yu (28 February 2014). Speedlights And Elephands. Panoma Press. pp. 194–. ISBN   978-1-907722-54-7.
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  7. "reCAPTCHA v3". Google Developers. Retrieved 2022-08-09.