Archive: oscommerce

When doing spidering projects or other bulk catalogue management projects for osCommerce sites, I tend to finish by creating easypopulate format files so that the store owner can do any last minute edits and upload the products manually using the easypopulate system. Creating easypopulate format files can be a bit of a chore, especially as [...]

If you install the free version of CRELoaded, you will see that they have sneaked some Google adverts onto the bottom of your site. Above the adverts will be the text This site is a member of the CRE Loaded Open Source Ecommerce Software community Bit of an underhand tactic but I suppose you have [...]

Server Migration Orders / Customers Synchronisation This contribution is for people who have moved or are moving server. When this happens you have to update your DNS records to point your domain name at your new server. However it takes a little bit of time for this change to fully propogate through the internet meaning [...]

A common requirement for oscommerce store owners is to try to get pages loading faster. Part of the problem is that each oscommerce install is different, with a mixture of contributions and bespoke customisations all making their own database queries and causing their own problems. The first part of the solution is to actually be [...]

Sometimes you need to get in there and reset the password for oscommerce using phpMyAdmin. In these instances, you do not just paste in a new password but you have to properly encode it first. Here is a really handy tool to create a password hash for you, ready to be pasted into phpMyAdmin for [...]

One of the most arduous task in maintaining and ecommerce web site is the constant task of keeping all of your products up to date. Suppliers like to release new price lists and product ranges on at least a yearly basis. Just when you have managed to get your web site completely up to date, [...]

One of the most popular SEO contributions (community supplied open source modifications) for osCommerce is the SEO URLs system supplied by Chemo. Chemo was famous on the osCommerce scene for a long time and supplied a great many highly useful contributions. One of his best contributions to osCommerce in my opinion is this forum thread [...]

osCommerce is an awesome ecommerce package. It has many critics and this is mainly due to the fact that unlike many modern open source packages it is not really ready to run "out of the box". That is a drawback, however it is not really so much of a drawback when you take into account [...]

osCommerce is a great ecommerce package which is hugely popular due to its full feature set, massive options for customisation and a huge support base. However if you want to run a large catalogue, or have plenty of visitors then speed can become an issue. There are a number of things you should look at [...]