I am making a product website/shopping cart but I need it multisite. In otherwords, there is a general product catalog that will feed the multisites' front pages and shopping cart. The consumer will purchase the items but then the orders will be processed by the manufacturer and dropped shipped. Multisites will be similar but not necessarily the same.
I am a developer and have lots of PHP/Javascript/mysql experience.
Joomla and Virtuemart are very impressive. But I need to do a lot of customization to get it to do what I need.
I installed the basic Drupal and go it to work to see whether it can do the job. I am thinking Drupal may be better because it seems more developer oriented.
Does it solve problems like multisite and easier back end coding? Any information or links to recent comparisons are appreciated.
Thanks
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It depends on what you mean by multisite-- with drupal that term has a very specific meaning. See drupal's install.txt file and http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/multisite?filters=type:book.
When it comes to ecommerce on drupal you'll definitely want to check out the http://drupal.org/project/ubercart module, some of the other addon modules available for it here and here, and the very helpful community over at ubercart.org.