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This forum was created to complement the South Africa Group. The results of discussion here will be distilled into Wikis and blog posts on that groups page for future reference.

E-commerce is on the brink of really taking off in South Africa, and Magento could not have come at a better time for us. Just about every web developer and designer I speak to is starting to get requests from clients to implement e-commerce, and so they’re busy researching the various platforms out there. If this wave of interest had started a year ago we would all have bedded down with osCommerce or the like, and we would have missed out on the future of Magento, or at least spent a lot of time learning a new system when we finally transitioned!

It is important that as we start getting to grips with Magento we don’t all silently tackle the same issues on our own. The classic example is the development of payment gateway modules, where I have heard this week of two different developers working independently on a module for the same payment gateway. These efforts could be combined to create a more robust and well-tested solution that everyone can benefit from.

It is tempting to cling to hard-earned knowledge or proprietary modules in an attempt to get a competitive advantage over other developers, but I hope we all realise that we will win clients through our relationships rather than our fancy technology. Let’s share what we have and raise the standard of e-commerce in South Africa so that there is more than enough work and online turnover for everyone.

Please feel free to respond to this post with an introduction of where you’re from and what your plans with Magento are.

Hi There,

Im glad to see us South Africans are also represented here. I found this after a long and hard search for what I think is the perfect online shop (free of course). I have spent some money on this already and still I am struggeling to find something that a novice to PHP can get to work. From what I have seen in the demo it looks really nice. But (there is always a BUT) I have trouble installing. I searched he forums but cant seem to find a solution to my problem. Baybe you can help. I uploaded the files to a folder called magento but whan I try to run it in my browser I get the following error:

There has been an error processing your request.
Warning: Mage_Core_Block_Template::include(/home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/design/install/default/default/template/page.phtml) [function.Mage-Core-Block-Template-include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php on line 131
Trace:
#0 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(131): mageCoreErrorHandler(2, ‘Mage_Core_Block...’, ‘/home/intouchw/...’, 131, Array)
#1 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(131): Mage_Core_Block_Template::fetchView()
#2 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(163): Mage_Core_Block_Template->fetchView(’install/default...’)
#3 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Template.php(180): Mage_Core_Block_Template->renderView()
#4 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Block/Abstract.php(554): Mage_Core_Block_Template->_toHtml()
#5 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Model/Layout.php(505): Mage_Core_Block_Abstract->toHtml()
#6 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php(319): Mage_Core_Model_Layout->getOutput()
#7 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Install/controllers/WizardController.php(109): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->renderLayout()
#8 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Action.php(342): Mage_Install_WizardController->beginAction()
#9 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Router/Standard.php(159): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Action->dispatch(’begin’)
#10 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Core/Controller/Varien/Front.php(146): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Standard->match(Object(Mage_Core_Controller_Request_Http))
#11 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/app/Mage.php(427): Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Front->dispatch()
#12 /home/intouchw/public_html/magento/index.php(40): Mage::run()
#13 {main}

Can you please assist?

Regards

Swannie

hi

i am new to magento, just recently installed it.

i have 2 issues

1. how is the development of a payment gateway going,
2. is my gate any good. is my understanding that they charge a monthly fee and only R1.50 per payment. the other guys are like 5%.
3. How do we handle SA shipping, do we just use DHL, or can we use Berco as well. how do we go about charging for shipping, is a flat fee worth it.
4. I have done a bit of PHP and vast .net, however if. someone could provide me with the code for one of the other payment providers, i can see prehaps i can modify it to work with mygate. Andrew i will also e-mail them perhaps a bit more motivation is required.