Introducing Product Attributes

Although the product attributes implementation has been replaced with the newer Product Variants feature, a new feature of the same title is being introduced to 3.0 Alpha 5 which deals with non-core related product data with a flexible and modular implementation.
This allows modules to be created to define new data parameters for a product which […]

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Product Variants and Custom Values

The new Product Variants feature has been extended to allow custom variant values which customers can define themselves. Common use of custom variant values is accepting text to apply to the product, for example, Apple providing engravements on their iPod multimedia devices, and clothing stores that print custom text on the front and back of […]

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Optimizing for PHP 5; Object Visibility

With our recent announcement of optimizing the osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 release for PHP 5, I will begin blogging about the changes performed here for the v3.0 Alpha 5 and v3.0 Alpha 6 releases to serve as a guide for our community developers. This should help in understanding how the v3.0 framework is designed and […]

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Web Hosting - Getting Your Website Online

Ok so now that you have registered a domain name whats next?
The next step is finding a reliable web host or setting up a web server. There are several types of web hosting options out there.
The cheapest type of web hosting is known as ISP (Internet Service Provider) web hosting. ISP web hosting is where […]

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Step one Choosing a Domain Name

OK OK Andrew I have weighed both the advantages and disadvantages of starting an online store. Let’s go for it, where do I start?
Anybody who wants to open an online store and is planning on using osCommerce as there e-commerce solution must have the following:
a) Domain Name
b) Hosting
These two items are mandatory and both must […]

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Getting Your Business Online – Disadvantages

Although there are many advantages to having a website, one also must consider the disadvantages. There are a large number of people who do not use the internet. Some people actually want to physically touch and see products that they want to purchase. Many people have an issue with using their credit card’s online, they […]

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New Forum Server

Im glad to report that the forum has successfully migrated to a new server. The move started last week on Friday which left the forum in a read-only state that led into the weekend. This was required to keep the database consistent while the DNS changes were taking place, and to make sure the new […]

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History Lesson: register_globals In osCommerce 2.2

Although our development priorities are with finalizing the 3.0 release, a final 2.2 release will also be made prior or simultaneously with the 3.0 release. This will move the 2.2 Milestone 2 release into a final 2.2 release with a small number of known bug fixes, and will close the 2.x release line.
No major features […]

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