Yearly Archives: 2009

Rename osCommerce Files

Has anyone ever thought about renaming osCommerce page filenames and directory names and other things? This may be a decent way to solve some problems that osCommerce shop owners experience. For many years, my own osCommerce store has had a

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osCommerce Quiz?

An osCommerce Quiz for you to think about; PLAIN TEXT PHP: switch (tep_get_zone_code($order->delivery['country']['id'], $order->delivery['zone_id'], '')) {                    case 'HI':           case 'AK':           $extra_cost

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New, Used, Refurbished in osCommerce Product Info

Interesting code question posed on the osCommerce forum so I thought it would make a decent blog post; Are there any contributions out there which add product information fields in the admin section so that you can list the product

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Shipping Cost Per Country in osCommerce

I was tasked to come up with a way to set 2 shipping rates per country, example; UK: 1st kilo of weight = £5.00, subsequent half kilo's £0.75 USA: 1st kilo = £8.00, subsequent half kilo's £1.25 and so on,

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Expedite Fee in osCommerce

So, you might want to charge an extra amount for shipping "expedited" - especially in the run up to Christmas. At the osCommerce forum someone asked for such, and a number of ideas came up. There are some close contributions,

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SEO Urls 5 Pro for osCommerce

This is a new version of FWRMedia's existing SEO Urls contribution. I've been beta teting it for the last few days and between a few users found a couple of issues [nothing major] which should be fixed when the final

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osCommerce London – update

So, having made the decision to meet up at London for the osCommerce public meeting, my first task was to book train tickets as there's no way I'm driving! With that done, and quite cheaply too I might add, I

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osCommerce London

Friday 11th December. London osCommerce Public Meeting. If you can make it, it would be great to meet anyone who uses or develops osCommerce. You can read more about the osCommerce London meeting here.

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HTML in osCommerce Product Descriptions

Rob asks; If you don't mind me asking, what are the current limitations with HTML in the product descriptions? The reason I ask is that I currently utilize HTML tables within the product descriptions to provide a matrix of dimensions

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The perfect osCommerce

I'd like to throw this open for your comments as to what should be included in an osCommerce package. Here is my suggestions; Avoiding abandoned carts 1. Reduced checkout 2. Shipping Estimator in shopping cart Product Details 1. Multiple images

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