osCommerce Blog

Improving CoreUpdate

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:47:54 +0200

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

One of the great new features of our framework is the ability to perform upgrades via the Admin Dashboard, where update packages are listed, modified files can be seen, and upgrades can be performed at the click of a button.

Unfortunately not everyone will get to experience how great this can…

osCommerce and the CLA

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:28:34 +0200

osCommerce and the CLA:

Published by Mark Evans

To follow-up to my previous posting about osCommerce and the BSD Licence I will now try and answer some of the misconceptions around the new CLA (Contributor License Agreement) which was added as part of the osCommerce 3.x release. I will also aim to make this into an official FAQ document when time allows…

osCommerce and the BSD License

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:53:00 +0200

osCommerce and the BSD License:

Published by Mark Evans

There have been a number of comments made about the license change of osCommerce 3.x to the BSD. This post aims to dispel some of the confusion around the change and will hopefully be the primer for a proper FAQ on www.oscommerce.com when I have some time. If there are any questions you have…

The New Framework Architecture (Part One: Site! Application! Action!)

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:33:17 +0200

The New Framework Architecture (Part One: Site! Application! Action!):

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

This is the first of a multi-part series documenting the new framework architecture of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0.

Those that have not been following the development of the new framework will receive quite a shock when they download the osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 release package and…

Open Source Rocks!

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:25:34 +0100

Open Source Rocks!:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We are fortunate to have a unique relationship with our community that is based on trust. This was built on and earned naturally from the very beginning when we first announced ourselves to the world in March 2000. Our user base has grown from a few people to millions worldwide, attracted through…

Roadmap for 2011

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:49:49 +0100

Roadmap for 2011:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

The biggest milestone in our history will be reached on March 31 2011 with the release of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0. This is the result of years of hard work, community feedback, and patience! We thank the community and our partners tremendously for their support during this long development…

Countdown to v3.0

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:38:08 +0100

Countdown to v3.0:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We are extremely proud to countdown to March 31 for the release of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 and to cause a disruption in the Open Source and e-commerce community. Our future goals are based on this new foundation that will continually be improved on to meet the demands of tomorrows store…

OSCOM v2.3 Pre-Release Notes

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 15:42:00 +0200

OSCOM v2.3 Pre-Release Notes:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We stated earlier that the next osCommerce Online Merchant releases would be v2.2 and v3.0 and that we wouldn’t be publishing any more alpha, beta, or release candidate labelled versions. The next v2.2 release was declared as “v2.2final” to finalize the versioning cycle it went through, from…

Improvements Made to our Blog

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:14:00 +0200

Improvements Made to our Blog:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

Our blog has found a new home at Tumblr and now functions as an aggregator, linking to and publishing interesting articles from the osCommerce team and our partners.

New publications are automatically syndicated to our Twitter account and Facebook Page.

Our blog can be reached at:

http://blogs.oscommerce.com

OSCOM v3.0 Intelligent Checkout With Product Types

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:57:00 +0200

OSCOM v3.0 Intelligent Checkout With Product Types:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

Checkout Application

The number of steps during the checkout procedure has been drastically reduced with the new Checkout Application. The checkout procedure no longer starts at the shipping page but now heads directly to the confirmation page which takes care of all dependencies for the…

OSCOM v3.0 Application Actions

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:57:00 +0200

OSCOM v3.0 Application Actions:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

What Application Actions Do

Application Actions allows functionality to be added to Applications in a flexible manner without needing to edit core source code files. Actions typically define what page content is presented in a given situation and can load nested actions for further…

OSCOM v3.0 Namespace Usage

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:57:00 +0200

OSCOM v3.0 Namespace Usage:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

Namespace What\Is\It?

Namespaces allow scopes to be added to classes and are used to group related classes and to prevent collision of class names. The larger the framework grows and the more components that become available and integrate with the framework, the greater the…

OSCOM v3.0 Framework Optimized For PHP v5.3

Wed, 19 May 2010 14:54:00 +0200

OSCOM v3.0 Framework Optimized For PHP v5.3:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

PHP v5.3 and Namespaces

We’re excited to announce the framework for osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is being optimized to use the newer features PHP v5.3 provides, primarily focusing on implementing namespaces into the core. In addition to namespaces, the namespace coding…

Mark Evans at the JumpIn! developer’s camp organized by...

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:44:00 +0200

Mark Evans at the JumpIn! developer’s camp organized by Microsoft in Switzerland on April 7-9, 2010

London Public Meet-Up

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Published by Nick Weisser

I registered on the English and German osCommerce forums back in February 2003 when I first got in contact with the project. I posted and answered questions and made some contributions to existing add-ons. Two years ago in December 2007, Harald asked me if I’d like to become an official team member which I gladly accepted. Since then I’ve been helping with the German and English documentation, the German language pack for osCommerce 3.0, as well as some small bug fixes here and there. Currently, I’m working on a wireframe for the front end layout of version 3.0.

During the last 2 years as a team member I participated in various discussions on Skype and on the internal mailing list, but I never met any of the other team members in person. This changed in December 2009 when after a long break of official meetings, the first osCommerce public meet-up took place in London on 11th.

In the early afternoon I met with Harald, Mark, Jan and Matthijs from the team before the official event and enjoyed various interesting talks about each person’s professional career and long experience in e-commerce as well as their participation in the project.

Later on we all went from Paddington to Oxford Circus to the official event by tube where I had a chance to talk to community members such as Gary Burton and Mark Samios, as well as Bruno Lévêque and Igor Schlumberger, the co-founders of another open source e-commerce project called Prestashop.

I had come to London together with my wife and therefore already left the meet-up around 8pm to spend the rest of the evening with my wife. We also took the chance to do some shopping and sight seeing the day before the meet-up. It was a great short trip and I really enjoyed the event!

I’m looking forward to meeting more community members at next spring’s 10 year osCommerce birthday celebration which will shortly be announced on our blogs and on Facebook.

Stay tuned!

London Public Meet-Up

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100

London Public Meet-Up:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We had a fantastic meet-up in London last Friday - I’d like to thank everyone again for the great evening. It was great meeting with team members again and meeting community members around London for the first time!

I arrived in London on Wednesday and had a hotel in Paddington. The hotels here…

osCommerce Successfully Defends Its Trademark

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

osCommerce Successfully Defends Its Trademark:

Published by Harald Ponce de Leon

We have successfully defended our Trademark and Copyright against eCommerce Ventures Ltd who blatantly registered “osCommerce” as a trademark in the United Kingdom and tried to “pass off” as being osCommerce.

With owning the trademark registration, the firm, comprised of members that were…

osCommerce Public Meet-Up In London (11th December 2009)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0100

osCommerce Public Meet-Up In London (11th December 2009):

We’re kickstarting our public meetings again with a meet-up in London on Friday 11th December 2009 at the Match Bar West End (Oxford Circus) from 5pm onwards. This will be a casual no-presentation meet-up to meet, mingle, and have a few drinks with store owners, developers, and enthusiasts…

New Certified Sage Pay Payment Modules for osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

John Fitchett:

Sage Pay and osCommerce have partnered to release certified versions of the Sage Pay Form, Server and Direct payment modules to the osCommerce community. This partnership enables merchants to securely process card transactions with the UK’s largest indepenent payment service provider whilst utilising Sage Pay’s latest protocol and product offerings.

The Sage Pay Server module has been updated to include the recently released iframe capability which offer merchants a seamless checkout flow without the customer perception of being redirected away to a hosted payment page. This solution also minimises PCI compliance requirements as no card data is ever stored, processed or transmitted from the merchant’s website.

The certified modules will be included as standard modules in the osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 release and are available now as add-ons for existing store owners from v2.2 Milestone 2 onwards.

The certified modules are available for free at the osCommerce Add-Ons site:

http://addons.oscommerce.com/service/sage_pay

To compliment the release of the new modules, Sage Pay are offering all osCommerce merchants an introductory 3 months free gateway fees for new Sage Pay sign ups, designed to save osCommerce users money on their transaction processing costs.

OFFER: 3 months free unlimited Sage Pay processing when you sign up to Sage Pay - Saving a minimum of £60! Promotion code “osc223” Apply here!

The Illegal Registration of the "osCommerce" Trademark in the UK

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0200

The Illegal Registration of the "osCommerce" Trademark in the UK:

The name “osCommerce” has been registered as a Trademark in the United Kingdom by eCommerce Ventures Ltd. The Trademark registration number 2512693 can be found here:

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tm/t-find/t-find-number?detailsrequested=C&trademark=2512693

This is a continued effort of a derivative…