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Success Story: Setting a Fixed Width in osCommerce
April 07, 2025Success Story: Setting a Fixed Width in osCommerce ...
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Success Story: Disabling Mobile View Layout in osCommerce 4
April 04, 2025Success Story: Disabling Mobile View Layout in osCommerce 4<p> ...
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Success Story: Displaying All Products on the Homepage
April 02, 2025Success Story: Displaying All Products on the Homepage ...
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Success Story: Resolving Theme Customization Timeout Issue
March 31, 2025Success Story: Resolving Theme Customization Timeout Issue ...
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Success Story: Ensuring Accessible Tab Displays for All Users
March 28, 2025Success Story: Ensuring Accessible Tab Displays for All Users ...
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Success Story: Adjusting Thumbnail Spacing in Product Display
March 26, 2025Success Story: Adjusting Thumbnail Spacing in Product Display ...
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Success Story: Correcting a Typo in the Neighbour Comments Text
March 24, 2025Success Story: Correcting a Typo in the Neighbour Comments Text ...
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Success Story: Easily Move Products Between Categories in osCommerce
March 21, 2025Success Story: Easily Move Products Between Categories in osCommerce ...
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Success Story: Restoring the Paging Widget on Subcategory Pages
March 19, 2025Success Story: Restoring the Paging Widget on Subcategory Pages ...
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Success Story: Changing Product Weight in Bulk
March 17, 2025Success Story: Changing Product Weight in Bulk ...
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Installing Opayo for osc 2.3 via Zip File
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March 12, 2017Viewed: 1328
We're 17 today! 17 years working on Open Source. 17 years working with you. Trusting us for 17 years. Thank you! We're not only celebrating just today, but this whole month! New releases coming soon. New websites coming soon. #celebratingwithyou Happy Birthday osCommerce! ...
December 21, 2016Viewed: 1526
We wish everyone a great holiday season and a fantastic start in 2017! Special thanks to the team, our community members, and our partners - thank you for your continued support in not only helping us, but also continuing to welcoming and helping new store owners joining the community. Our highlights during 2016 include the launch of our new Live Sites website, our new German website, and the development of a new osCommerce Online Merchant v2.4 Joli release ...
November 11, 2016Viewed: 2314
We're extremely proud to announce the next osCommerce Online Merchant release series is rolling out now starting with the beta release of v2.4.0 Joli! This is a developers release that has a rapid weekly release schedule to finalize the framework API and to build on to the v2.x series with quality production ready releases. v2.4.0 Joli Beta includes the community led effort by Gary Burton to modernize the frontend with a responsive Bootstrap template called Sail. This not only aims to improve ...
December 09, 2014Viewed: 1801
We're proud to announce the introduction of a new App endeavor with the release of PayPal App for osCommerce Online Merchant! We've worked in close collaboration with PayPal to not only bring you updated PayPal payment modules but have also bundled all PayPal modules, including Log In with PayPal, into a single App package for an even tighter integration with osCommerce Online Merchant to enhance both sellers and buyers experiences with PayPal. The PayPal App is optimized for and will be ...
June 05, 2014Viewed: 4179
We're proud to announce the release of osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.4! This release introduces a new Content Modules feature, secures the Administration Tool if SSL is enabled, and includes new and updated payment modules. Content Modules Content Modules is a new feature that builds and loads the content of a page through modules. The My Account, Login, and Checkout Success pages have been updated in this release to utilize Content Modules and can now be customized and manipulated through ...
February 12, 2014Viewed: 1168
Member of the Year 2013 The votes are in and we're excited to announce the Member of the Year 2013! We'd like to thank the community for nominating members of the month throughout 2013 and for voting their favourite members for the year. We actually have two winners to announce with the Member of the Year 2013 awards going to Gary (burt) and Jim (kymation) ! Congratulations! On behalf of the community we would like to thank you for the dedicated and continuous support ...
December 02, 2013Viewed: 1208
We have been proudly promoting helpful members in the community as Member of the Month and we're excited to announce that both Members of the Month as well as those submitting nominations can now win awards! Each month, the chosen Member of the Month as well as a random nomination will win a 1 Month Community Sponsorship prize. This starts this month with the nominations submitted for Member of the Month January 2014. In December of each year, every chosen Member of the Month for the same ...
September 26, 2013Viewed: 5977
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.3.4 is a general maintenance release focusing on improving core features and the Database Tables "Convert to UTF-8" action introduced in the previous release. This release is in preparation of and building up to v2.3.4. Changelog MySQL Error Functions (Harald) Don't pass a null parameter to the MySQL error functions otherwise PHP will display a warning message. UTF-8 Conversion (Harald) Also manually convert existing data records to UTF-8 and detect ...
September 20, 2013Viewed: 1836
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.3.3 is a general maintenance release focusing on improving core features and introducing new security check modules. This release is part of a regular release cycle in preparation of and building up to v2.3.4. Changelog Database Query Logging (Harald) Improve database query error logging. Administration Tool Navigation Menu (Harald) Dynamically load navigation boxes. HTTPS -> HTTP Browser Alert (Harald) Have forms posting from a HTTPS to HTTP page post to a ...
September 05, 2013Viewed: 1587
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.3.2 is a general maintenance release focusing on PHP 5.5 compatibility, improving core features, and introducing new modules. This release is part of a weekly release schedule leading up to the final v2.3.4 release. Changes PHP 5.5 Compatibility Replace mysql_* database function calls with mysqli_*. (Harald) Administration Tool -> Dashboard -> Partner News Add new Administration Tool Dashboard module. (Harald) Administrator Account Initialization Prevent ...
August 27, 2013Viewed: 1566
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.3.1 is a security and general maintenance release focusing on improving core features. This release is in preparation of v2.3.4 containing additional improvements. Changes Who's Online Parse REQUEST_URI with tep_db_prepare_input() before storing the value in the database. Replace REMOTE_ADDR with tep_get_ip_address(). Administration Tool -> Catalog -> Categories/Products Fix product price gross tax calculations when adding or editing products. Session ...
November 09, 2012Viewed: 1460
We're excited to announce the relaunch of our main website now powered by the new framework behind the development version of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0! And we're even more excited to announce we've released the source code of the new website as Open Source and is available on GitHub! The new website is built with the new template engine functionality currently in development for v3.0. This is a fully functional testbed to work out the shortcomings of the current template ...
August 15, 2012Viewed: 2035
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.3 is a general maintenance release improving over 30 features. This release also introduces new Robot NoIndex and Canonical Header Tag Modules, and Google+ +1, Google+ Share, and Pinterest Social Bookmark Modules. Changes Administration Tool -> Tools -> Send E-Mail Convert HTML e-mail to plain-text if HTML E-Mails is disabled. tep_redirect() Fix URL encoding by replacing '&' with '&'. Administration Tool -> Tools -> Define ...
August 03, 2012Viewed: 1072
We have been informed that a list of vulnerable sites has been recently published that have the "extras" directory publicly accessible on their servers. The "extras" directory is not part of the installation but is included in the osCommerce Online Merchant download packages to assist existing users upgrade their sites through various PHP and Perl scripts that had to be manually copied to the server. These scripts are no longer relevant to the newer releases and were removed ...
July 18, 2012Viewed: 1320
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.3.2 is a security improvement release which improves the customer password forgotten routine and generation of random strings. Previously, the customer password forgotten routine would automatically generate a random password and e-mail it to the customer. The code was based on tep_create_random_value(), the PHP mt_rand() function, and a weak seeding of the random number generator. Now, tep_create_random_value() uses Phpass' stronger get_random_bytes() method to ...
August 19, 2011Viewed: 1069
We‘re proud to announce a new Live Chat extension to our Community Support Forum! The Live Chat facility serves to host live discussions between community members to not only directly communicate with friends, store owners, developers, and service providers around the world, but also to quickly receive and provide support in urgent matters. The tight integration with the support forum opens the Live Chat facility to over 250,000 registered community members ready to participate in live chat ...
August 06, 2011Viewed: 1775
We are proud to announce osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0.2! This is a minor release that focuses on bug fixes, framework improvements, and introduction of new Applications. New in this release: New Admin Applications: Categories Customers Services Verify Session IDs - if requested Session ID does not exist, create and use a new Session ID. Only call for Administration Dashboard Shortcut Notifications when shortcuts exist. Support sub-domain URLs for Sites. ErrorHandler messages now formated in ...
April 08, 2011Viewed: 1169
We're proud to announce osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0.1! This is a maintenance release that focuses on bug fixes and improvements. v3.0.1 is available as a full download package, a manual v3.0 to v3.0.1 upgrade package, and as an automatic upgrade through CoreUpdate. Existing v3.0 users can upgrade to v3.0.1 through CoreUpdate via the Admin Dashboard -> Applications -> Tools -> Core Update application. The update package may take up to 6 hours to become available. Please note that ...
April 01, 2011Viewed: 2091
We are extremely excited and proud to announce the release of osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0! This conquers our largest milestone yet of building a new framework to base our future goals and releases on. This is our first release that abstracts user features from the core framework to allow customizations to be easily applied, to improve existing and introduce new core framework API features, and by installing and managing Add-Ons for exciting new user features in a flexible and modular manner. ...