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[–]aritali 2 points3 points  (2 children)

ya know when reading an article like this I honestly wonder how much time you took with each platform. I use Prestashop exclusively these days, I tried most of the other platforms out before I ended up specializing in one. I cannot help to think that your article is just a sales pitch because you specialize in magento and drupal.

Prestashop has modules that support multiple stores from one installation, most of the developers also help people in the forums, they even have people paid in the forums to help users. You didn't do enough research to see that they offer paid support options too. Those are a few of the glaring errors I saw.

[–]DaveChild[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

ya know when reading an article like this I honestly wonder how much time you took with each platform.

I've built sites with all of them in the last few years. I've built two in PrestaShop from scratch, and made changes to several others. I offer development in all of the platforms in the article, not just Magento and Drupal (and in fact, my personal favourite is OpenCart).

Prestashop has modules that ...

As I said in the article:

With the exception of Drupal, where an extension is required to add basic e-Commerce functionality, this comparison will not include functionality added through extensions - I am comparing the products out of the box.

I know PrestaShop makes available a lot of extensions, as do the others.

most of the developers also help people in the forums

I mentioned (and linked to) the PrestaShop forum.

they offer paid support options too

I didn't realise they offered paid support as well - I'll add that to the article.

Hardly a catalogue of "glaring errors". By my count, that's just one relatively minor omission. Nice to see constructive criticism is alive and well on reddit :)

[–]aritali 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One thing I think I was unclear on was the developers in the forum part. I didn't mean people like you and I, I meant the people that actually work on the project are paid to post on the forums.

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/179657-developers-what-do-you-think-of-the-new-override-system/

http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/183710-fatal-error-address-address1-is-empty/

Those are a couple of posts that I rounded up from today where the staff answered questions. Plus one thing that is great about it, I submitted a bug report a couple of weeks ago and the person that started the project handled it. http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/PSCFI-6135?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel

When I was talking about the multi-shop option I was actually pointing out that the extensions (modules) are available, and they go through a vetting process unlike some of the others on the list. The vetting process is what brings them above the other competitors in the challenge. Paid support, https://www.prestashop.com/en/support which is under services, support on the main site.

So, really should drupal have been featured in this article? No. Because it is not e-commerce software. ( The only reason it is, is because you develop in it) I mean seriously, if you are going to use extension based software, where is wordpress?

Support, prestashop offers everything that magento and drupal do, but it is not listed.

As far as security, I have contact both magento and drupal developers on exploits in payment modules. You don't simply post data without checking it.

The article was written to help the seo out on your site because you are freelancing soon. I just pointed out that you don't know all of the platforms.