This PrestaShop template system thing is killing me 😩

Ugh, fuck that shit. Makes Magento 1.x look functional and user friendly

@benleah Yup, still a thing 😂 they've actually been updating it, and did a redesign a few months ago... I had never worked with it before, so I can't really tell if it is better or worse, but still, feels like they complicate things way too much :/
I don't think the site is older than maybe 4 years or so

@SirusAmory ahaha I actually never used Magento. Is it considerably better than PrestaShop? Cause the client said the previous dev was gonna move everything to WordPress (I'm guessing with WooCommerce), but between the two, I thought maybe it would be better to stick with PS, given the fact that they already have experience with it, and the site only needs a few adjustments...

@SirusAmory but yea, if that was the case, I'd probably port everything to Magento... Cause I'll still have to build two more online stores for them, after I'm done with this one, and I wanted them all to be built in the platform.

@P3t3r6 can't speak for Magento 2.x, but 1.x is the least user-friendly CMS I've come across since ModX. Hate working with it but one of our main eCommerce sites runs on it so I'm stuck with it (for now).

@P3t3r6 from a purely Dev perspective, it's very much superior to PrestaShop, and the codebase is much better. The folder-structure is a bit fucked up though.

From a backend UX and user-usability perspective 1.x is a bit poo

@SirusAmory @benleah Thank you for your input guys, I'm gonna look into Magento and see how that goes :)

@P3t3r6 Magento is horse shit, the folder structure is a goddamn mess, everything is XML mixed with PHP, plugin and theme management is a nightmare, core Magento is constantly full of security holes (including one that provided a hacker root access recently) and don't get me started with plugin security issues, admin store configuration and management is needlessly complex, and on top of that the documentation is garbage. I've had experience developing on many ecommerce platforms and I'd recommend Shopify- it is developed on a modern Ruby stack and is heads and shoulders above the competition. It will save you some hundred hours in pre-launch dev and multiple hundreds of hours of post launch maintenance and upkeep down the road ❤️

What template engine? You're better off using plain phtml files in your modules and rendering them via your module. Their FrontControllers can't even fucking guarantee the availability of variables among "PATCH" versions of the system. If you have to support a wide range of version be sure to check every single "PATCH" version because there will be surprises. Guaranteed!