Archive: oscommerce

Well known is how Loaded Commerce/CRELoaded protect their google banners they wack on all opensource versions of their code. Once you have removed the footer in the current version though, it checks the output buffer and you will find it after the closing html tag of your page. The function that does this is cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(); [...]

If your osCommerce checkout starts behaving badly and bits of info seem to go missing eg billing address then you should definitely try this fix before you tear your hair out completely. Most osCommerce installs store session information to a MySQL table called (suprisingly) sessions. Sometimes (I have only seen this twice on umpteen osCommerce [...]

If you are having a weird problem with your payment modules not saving the configuration when you edit them via the admin, try this to see if it fixes it: in admin/modules.php find: PLAIN TEXT PHP: while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { and replace it with PLAIN TEXT PHP: //while (list($key, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS['configuration'])) { [...]

If you need to move your osCommerce (and derivatives such as CRE Loaded and Zen Cart) based site to a new server, here is a quick explanation of our approach which enables you to handle the migration without any downtime and no loss of order or customer information despite the fact that in the propagation [...]

I've been spending a hell of a lot of time coding Magento recently, and for any full time serious ecommerce business I would recommend a Magento solution. However I have spent much more of my time coding osCommerce and usually CRE Loaded osCommerce based ecommerce sites. CRELoaded is still a great package (once you get [...]

Harald made a great post on the osCommerce forum that details the roadmap for the project and also includes some great links for developers who want to get involved. I will definitely be forking the project and seeing what I might be able to contribute. You can see the full post here. This is the [...]

Harald has released some info about the minimum requirements of osCommerce version 3 alpha on the osCommerce blog here. It requires PHP 5.2 as a minimum (though I would personally recommend avoiding version 5.2.0 and going for the latest version if at all possible. The major reasons for this are the requirement for the object [...]

Just checking out the osCommerce blog and it looks like there is some activity over at osCommerce in relation to version 3. It would great to see osCommerce come back into the foreground of open source ecommerce! After a brief look through the source code it looks like osCommerce is leaving its procedural routes behind [...]

Like any web application, osCommerce can suffer from security problems such as SQL Injection attacks or famously the email form exploit which allow hackers to gain access to data they shouldn't have access to or in the case of the email form exploit, to use your machine to send thousands of spam emails. Here are [...]

osCommerce is undoubtedly the most popular open source ecommerce system available today. It has been around for a long time and whilst this does mean that it is not particularly cutting edge in the way it is put together, it also means that it is tried and tested and guaranteed to work well. One of [...]