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[South Sudan]

Just for your info, South Sudan is not the South of the Sudan, but an independant country that is missing in the database  of Abantecart 1.3.4.

I found this when setting delivery locations.

[suggest numbering languages according alphabetical list for the ISO 639-1 codes]

Hello,

As AbanteCart likes standardization, I would suggest numbering languages according alphabetical list for the ISO 639-1 codes from the International Organization for Standardization.

This would mean that "language_id" would be set to:

• 41 for English (instead of default 1)
• 149 for Spanish
• 29 for Chinese
• 55 for German
• 48 for French

a.s.o.
instead of being attributed by the auto increment.

If developers of language extensions would follow this simple rule, it would be much easier to create datasets that can be easily be imported by every user of AbanteCart.

Consider for instance how zone descriptions can be imported by SQL queries:

INSERT INTO `ac_zone_descriptions` (`zone_id`, `language_id`,`name`) VALUES (...,...,'')

Of course, some languages will probably never be imported, like dead ones (e.g. 93,'Latin','la), but it would just suffice to check the list to know which id should be used for each language.

I have prepared the full CSV list of 183 languages, alphabetically ordered, as well as the SQL query equivalent for AbanteCart's list languages list.

I hope there will be some traction for this practice. Writing a few updaters for existing shops should not be a big issue.
Awaiting for your feedback.

Hi,

As a minor improvement, I would suggest using slighlty different icons for the frontend, backend, the documentation and the forum.

When navigating with multiple tabs opened in the web browser, this would make easier to identify to which page is which.

[using the 1.2.11 version]

Hello,

I am new to AbanteCart and would like to tell that I am falling in love with it!

I am still building my ecommerce on localhost (xampp/PHP 7.1.33) and using the 1.2.11 version of AbanteCart.

Among things that I especially appreciate is that AbanteCart is lightweight and responsive.
Having the main fields of products being directly editable in batch mode in the backend, without having to access each product individually is how every ecommerce system should be.
The fun things is that I had partly redesigned the backend of another system, and when looking at the product edition in AbanteCart, is is close to what I had designed and coded, with ajaxified fields. So, I really feel comfortable using AbanteCart's backend, almost like if I had written it.
We obviously share the same philosophy.

The backend of an ecommerce system is of uppermost importance, and AbanteCart excels in this regard.
I like the fact that AbanteCart is designed with efficiency of catalogue/product edition/etc. in mind, with a compact laptop-friendly GUI, as opposite to alla moda designs of some other systems that prove being totally unefficient for managing products.
I didn't test the in development version 2.0 yet, but hope that the spirit of Abantecart 1.x remains.

Congratulations and keep on with the good work.