osCommerce Online Merchant is a free, Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved...
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Zen Cart is one the most popular, free, open source shopping cart options available.
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As often as I can I go out the osCommerce support forum. My intentions are to do my part to contribute to the community by lending a hand to those who might be experiencing some problems. As a general rule, I'll view the new posts since the last time I made a visit. I'll pay particular attention...
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This is the first in what I plan to be an ongoing series of articles concerning osCommerce and its architecture. We will start out with some basics and eventually get into some more complex issues as the series progresses. To get the most value out of these articles, its going to help a great deal ...
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Previously we talked about some files which are included in most pages of the osCommerce system, header.php, column_left.php, column_right.php, and footer.php. All four of these files deal directly with the visual appearance of osCommerce. There are some other files which are also included in each ...
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Ok so you have osCommerce installed and you're starting to poke around the admin area, looking at all of the available features and controls, making some of your initial global configurations. And suddenly it hits you, "wait a minute, I didn't have to log in to get here?!".
That's right you didn't...
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As with most complex web applications, osCommerce uses a style sheet to define much of the visual presentation of the pages within the system. Cascade style sheets (CSS) are the prefered manner for applying styles because all the style definitions are stored in a central location and therefore can ...
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While osCommerce straight out of the box comes as a working shopping cart application, seldom will you ever see a production site using a completely stock version of the e-commerce application. In previous articles, we've talked a little bit about making some cosmetic changes. Today we are going to...
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A question I see asked from time to time in the osCommerce support forums is "how do I add a field to the products table?" That's a question that requires an answer a bit more involved than what can normally be provided in a forum post, so I thought I give a little tutorial on the process. There is ...
http://www.shoppingcartreview.com/understanding-oscommerce-adding-a-field-part-1
Last time we talked about our plan to add a new field to the products display. We discussed what we are going to do, now its time to talk about how to do it. There is a lot of information to cover, and technical information at that so lets jump right in.
A common tool for managing databases which...
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