I'm searching for a lightweight e-Commerce web-application implemented in PHP5 and using MySQL as storage db.
main requirements are:
- as small as possible
- Free or Open Source
- supporting multi-language (best if utf-8 was primarily supported)
- easy to use (don't need core to be bloated with functionality I won't use)
- basic system for setting up prices, multi-language strings and images
- small overhead on server
- fast to deploy
Please don't recommend Magento as I found it a little bloated for the functionality I'm looking for.
looking forward for your tips / recommendation
Try http://www.opencart.com/
Try these, reaction looks promising- http://getfwd.com/ http://www.marketcloud.it/ https://reactioncommerce.com/
OSCommerce is another very popular one, but i agree with the first answer also.
I love Magento. I blows the pants off OSCommerce in my opinion.
Some recommendations can be found for the question What’s the best free and opensource PHP ecommerce solution? (and why?).
In my opinion if you're looking for lightweight (which is hard to define for e-comemrce), Zen Cart, OSCommerce or OpenCart would be a good bet.
According to current ecommerce marketing trend, I believe this post at INC will answer your question more relevantly: http://www.inc.com/bill-carmody/top-5-ecommerce-platforms-in-2016.html