Such a thing as PHP/SQL templates?

[naclu]

My company uses the open source "osCommerce" to build our website. I
really like how the site is organized.

I have been thinking about designing my own website, and I would love
to have it organized much like the osCommerce sites are organized, but
I don't need the e-commerce functions. My site would just be an
informative site with lots of downloads.

If you go to their website www.oscommerce.com, you'll see that their
website, an informative website without e-commerce, is organized
basically the same way that the commerce sites are organized.

I mentioned this on one of their forums and was told that, because of
the difficulty of removing the commerce components, I would be much
better off to just design my own database and website using PHP and
MySQL.

I am new to PHP and MySQL, and have only learned so far to make minor
changes to an already-existing site/database. I don't feel that I
could build one from scratch by myself.

So, my question is... Is there such a thing as "templates" that I
could download (much like the osCommerce open source is a template) to
use and modify to make my own?

Any help is appreciated... TIA
Nancy

[tk]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:39:07 -0500, naclu wrote:
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So, my question is... Is there such a thing as "templates" that I
could download (much like the osCommerce open source is a template) to
use and modify to make my own?

Any help is appreciated... TIA
Nancy

Nancy,

Have you looked on <http://www.hotscripts.com/>? You might find something
there that you could use as reference / a base to modify to suit etc
"lighter" than osC.
HTH =)

Regards,

Ian

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