SitePoint has a new article posted today for anyone out there that has wanted to get an eCommerce site up and running quickly, and wanted to use a PHP-based solution. In Build an eCommerce Website with eZ publish, the author shows you how to use the software, but you'll still need to refer to installation docs to get it all set up.

Once it's installed, he shows you how to set up different product categories, publish products, create custom product structures, use custom templates for product pages, extend the checkout process, and integrate the site with online payment gateways. This last part is pretty key, especially for the shop that wants to instantly (and easily) charge and track the purchases made through the site.

Thankfully, eZpublish lives up to its name, making the customization a snap and integrating it into a pre-existing site a matter of popping the templates in the correct place to use them. I do with that he had included more about the installation (maybe some common pitfalls and the like) simply because, as many have said, half the work of using Open Source projects is getting them installed...