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Worlds First osCommerce 2.4 Theme

Behold, the worlds first commercial theme for osCommerce 2.4. This is a remake in 2.4 of the "Penny" theme. Video Live Demo Clicky clicky.

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Turn ordering off when on holiday?

Had a few requests for "turn ordering off when I'm on holiday" and yesterday managed to find the time to put it together. Needs 1. Ability in admin to turn off the checkout system, or leave it open 2. Ability

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osCommerce, Open Source and how to get to grips with Commercialism

osCommerce is not and never has been a "no money" entity. Don't believe me? Let's look at the facts; 1. osCommerce is supported by community sponsors. They pay for that pleasure. 2. osCommerce is supported by corporate sponsors. They pay

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Comments are now powered by Disqus

As I have been getting so mcuh spam lately, I have updated the comment system to Disqus. I've queue'd the existing comments for addition to Disqus which is why they are not presently showing. It takes upto 24 hours for

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Table Rate Shipping based on highest weight product in cart

I needed to quickly code up a shipping module that is just like table rate, but instead of calculating "total weight" it calculates only on the weight of the heaviest product in the cart. With some fairly simplistic code, I

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osCommerce 2.3.2 to be released shortly

Hearing on the grapevine that osCommerce 2.3.2 is to released shortly. Changes from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2 (not scientifically exact, based on my looking at the files) 1. shopping_cart.php – Remove hardcoded language words 2. product_info.php – redirect to index page

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A new look

I decided to open up the blog to carts other than osCommerce. I work quite a bit with other osCommerce forks such as Zen Cart and particularly osC Max – so why not be a bit more responsive to users

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Also Purchased Module AFTER clicking the buy button

I have always been of the opinion that the usual way in which osCommerce shows the "also purchased" is a bit flawed. Usually it is simply shown on the product_info page, at all times – and is a list of

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osCommerce Forum opens up to Commercial Interest

It's been a long time coming but at last the osCommerce Forum has become more open to commercialism in terms of people asking how/where to find developers and for coding projects. This will hopefully be a very good alternative to

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Autocomplete the Search Box

Was reading the jqueryui site the other day and came across an interesting tidbit; autocomplete feature is built in. That got me to thinking, why not autocomplete the search box with the products name; That's the finished article, and as

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