Version 5.3 is almost done!

Though I've been very busy lately with developing for Megalinx Corporation and other affiliated companies, I have been finding some time in recent weeks to get some bugs fixed and do a few more features in CFShopkart. Recently I added a little Classified Ads module for it so that will be included in the 5.3 release. It's nothing fancy, and most of you will probably not use it, but it's pretty cool and a good application to build of off if you are wanting to build something like it.

The account section is getting a little face lift and I have also redid the category logins (which I'm currently working on finishing up). You will be able to mark an item as a subscription item as before, but this time the persons cc info is encrypted in the database and saved for you to handle how you want. In this release I won't be supporting any payment processor recurring payment solutions, but that will come soon probably starting with authorize.net and paypal (probably in a 5.3.x release I will add those in). For now it's just stored in the db and you can handle it how you need too (if anyone needs to use this feature). For now, I just plan to make it so that you can select which subscriptions get to access which categories. The reason I redid it, is I was working on something for someone else and I realized the way I had programed it just isn't very versitile, and this will make it much more versitile for future addons and modules.

I did some work on the themes to improve slightly on the implementation.

I am currently adding back in the ability to have downloadable goods! It's going to be good too, in that you will be able to attach multiple files to a product that your customers will then be able to download. Perfect for ebook sites or if you want to give them some type of download after checkout while they wait on a product to ship.

And I've been doing a lot of thinking on Version 6 already! Yes, even though 5.3 isn't quite out, I am thinking ahead :-)...version 6 will see some code changes in the admin. I am going to focus on making it more secure and faster. There are quite a few statement for the various components that will converted to statements. You'll notice that new features I've been adding use CFCASE instead of CFIF...sorry, but years ago when I first did this I used CFIF statements as that is what I learned, but then later learned about CFCASE and CFSWITCH which processes much quicker. So there will be some performance increases there.

I may in the meantime release a few more updates to 5, but I'm thinking that it's high time I quit adding more features, and just focus exclusively on bugs and adding payment processors.

EDIT: 02/2008 - Sorry guys, I've had to postpone the release. I'm doing some more work on it and have had a lot of work coming in. The release will be out soon though!