El E-commerce It is the present and future for businesses, electronic transactions are increasing daily worldwide and more and more businesses are betting on making the leap to online platforms. At the same time that consumers grow, alternatives to traditional e-commerce platforms, this time we gave a taste to a PrestaShop fork called Thirty bees and we want to share what this powerful tool is with each of our readers.
What is Thirty bees?
thirty bees is a fork of PrestaShop 1.6 which is released under the same license as the original, it is the result of refactoring the PrestaShop source code with the intention of porting it to Php 5.5 and Php 7.1. The development team has been in charge of cleaning the native source code, in addition to rewriting some modules such as Paypal and authorize.net, in the same way, they have created new modules to integrate MailChimp, Stripe and a modular blog style.
This e-commerce with the aim of providing a tool with characteristics and functionalities that adapt to the current needs of businesses, which should be reflected in a sustainable business growth.
The tool also thinks about improving or making code modification easier for newer users, which is why it plans to include the possibility of adding CSS and JavaScript from the application's back office. In addition to this, work is being done to improve caching of the e-commerce core using mechanisms such as redis, memcache, APC, among others.
Thirty bees is cross-platform and only needs an HTTP server such as Apache, nginx or IIS, in addition to PHP and a MySQL or MariaDB database. The most specific information on the requirements and characteristics of the application can be found in your official github.
It is important to note that the development team of this fork has made available to users a demo of the Thirty bees dashboard that we can access from here. and in turn a demo of the front office that we can view from here.
How to install Thirty bees
The easiest way to install Thity bees is by cloning the official repository
git clone https://github.com/thirtybees/thirtybees.git
Later we go to the directory of the tool with cd thirtybees/
then run composer and install the necessary dependencies
composer install
Finally we must go to our localhost and execute the configuration and installation file, for this we can open a browser and go to the url (localhost / install-dev or the one that corresponds)
The parameterization process is quite simple and includes relevant information for the personalization of our e-commerce.