You should have a look at Aimeos if you are looking to build an online shop, market place, reseller or complex B2B systems, while using your favorite PHP framework ! A high performance e-Commerce framework available for Typo3, Laravel, Symfony, SlimPHP and Flow.
Aimeos come with tons of amazing features that not only makes the development of e-Commerce solutions easier, but provides you with high performance responsive design, and about 40ms render time, while being available in more than ten languages.
The framework is free & Open Source (LGPLv3), Optimized for smart phones and tablets, and could be used for an unlimited number of shops per installation. It comes with full support for reoccuring subscriptions, a secure and reviewed implementation, in addition to an optimized usability via crowd testing.
Aimeos Performance
Aimeos is proved to handle 10 000 and more orders per day, and up to 100 000 products out of the box with standard MySQL, while being extremely scalable from single to very large distributed installations. The platform could be distributed to up to 16 databases and several million products with SOLR/ElasticSearch.
The framework got a low resource usage (3-6MB/request), which is not really very low but very acceptable for an e-Commerce platform with tons of features. It support multi-language, multi-currency, language specific price, number and date formats, and automatically populated language and currency selectors based on activated locales.
It’s fully SEO optimized, with Google readable product data and deep links to all products and categories. Readable URLs including product/category names, Canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content, and finally XML sitemap generation.
The security is highly respected with a strictly reviewed code, and an excellent code quality. A security layer with white lists against SQL injection is provided with supports Content Security Policy against cross site scripting attacks (XSS). Aimeos can also run without Javascript enabled.
Aimeos come with tons of features for developers, such as a JSON rest API, Native integration in any PHP application, highly configurable with over 2500 options. All components can be dynamically extended or replaced, and features can be added by decorators without extending the classes.
Overall, Aimeos got everything you need for developer or shop owners to develop from simple online shop to very complex B2B systems.
