e-agora can be described as a state of the art cloud-based serverless no-sql blockchain consumer-to-consumer e-shop but it's what you get if you take a bunch of guys who had no experience with PHP (or web development in general) and give them a couple of months to build an e-shop.
It is, in fact, a consumer-to-consumer e-shop (despite the fact that the code is more like a crime against humanity) and it was created as the end-of-semester project for one of our classes.
I found it while going through some old files and decided to upload just because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
e-agora development started in 2012, so you know you have a battle-tested, mature product. Sure, development also stopped in 2012 but that makes it even better because no development means no new bugs!
e-agora is extremely stable due to the simple fact that it won't even run 🎇
e-agora is backwards compatible by design. In fact, it's ONLY backwards compatible. You need the php_mysql extension
(and who knows what else) which was removed as of PHP 7. Yeah...
You don't need any build process, CI/CD or any of this fancy enterprise stuff. Just your trusted FTP (no SFTP please)
and you're good to go. And no more confusing .env files. All your passwords and other sensitive data are included
in the code (which also provides a slight performance boost. ProbablyMaybe...)
The built-in search functionality allows users to tap into the power of SQL by not filtering the input at all! Why limit them when you can be UNLIMITED!
You can read about all the templating features here
I was going to add some highlights but there are so many little things that it's hard to pick. It's like a study in bad design (we actually tried following the MVC model. THAT didn't work out 🤣🤣)
From the curiously named users2.php file (what happened to users.php ?) to the 10+ parameter functions
or the super useful comments that warn you to be careful not to brake the database
(because data validation is for losers). So many little gems.
What's your favorite?
- Translate greek comments to english so that you can fully appreciate the genius...ness of it all
- Dockerize it because why not lol
- Add licence
This was a trip down memory lane and if anybody ever reaches this page, I hope you had fun at my misfortune. Yeah, it's shitty code and I'm happy I've grown enough to realize that.
Some of the translations are intentionally wrong because they were also wrong in the original version and I wanted to preserve the authentic feeling 😂
PRs (lol) about the code will not be accepted. It's already perfect. For anything else (like making fun of me), be my guest.
Και αν γίνει κάποιο θαύμα και και κάποιος απο την ομάδα το δει αυτό τότε στείλτε μύνημα να τα κανονίσουμε να τα πούμε ρε αλάνια.
TEISER represent!