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December 23, 2002Viewed: 1112

Issue #18: December 23, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon December 23, 2002 New Team Member Security Issue For Demonstration Showcases New Workboard Section Contributions Section Updated New Friendlier URLs Seasons Greetings New Team Member Matthijs vd Vegte, who was recently assigned Godly status , has joined the project team for his continuous efforts in the forums of helping out the community. Welcome aboard Matthijs! Matthijs has been the second person posting already over 1000 messages in the forums, with Linda still ...

December 02, 2002Viewed: 1001

Issue #17: December 2, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon December 2, 2002 Release Plan Internal Issues Bug Reporter Update Busy Month Release Plan The release plan for 2.2 has been redefined by no longer making Release Candidate releases. Release Candidates are mainly released when no new features are introduced to concentrate on fixing existing bugs. As we plan on introducing new features the further we progress to 2.2 (for example template structure, register_globals compatibility) we have decided to release Milestones ...

November 30, 2002Viewed: 968

Donations Now Possible

Donating to the project's developers is now possible through the new Donations page on the support site. The donations page can be reached at: https://www.oscommerce.com/about.php/donations Put your money where your mouth is, and show the developers you care :) ...

November 27, 2002Viewed: 1086

New Live Discussions Section

This is the third and last attempt at providing a service where users can communicate with one another within a live environment. This time, the service is integrated into the support site, which greatly enhances the projects support services: forums, frequently asked questions, bug reports, and now live discussions, all available one mouse click away. As chatting can be unproductive, we are hoping this section can take care of itself, with users supporting users, not mainly developers supporting ...

November 25, 2002Viewed: 718

Issue #16: November 25, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon November 25, 2002 Random Number Generation Implementation Shipping/Payment Module Zones Discussion Customer Greeting Update New Featured Store: Paul Harris Stores Random Number Generation Implementation David Garcia Watkins updated the random number generation logic to wrap-around a custom function that handles the seeding of the random number generator. Random numbers that are generated are now truely random as the seeding is now done only once in the wrap-around ...

November 25, 2002Viewed: 909

New Dutch Support Site Online

Special thanks go to Brian Zaal who has put online a project support site for the Dutch community! If you spreken Dutch, go and make use of the sites offerings :) The Dutch support site can be reached at: https://www.theexchangeproject.net I have updated the International Support page on the main support site to also list the international mailing lists. The International Support page can be reached at: https://www.oscommerce.com/about.php/intlsupport ...

November 18, 2002Viewed: 739

Issue #15: November 18, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon November 18, 2002 Language Text Updates cPath Secured Bug Fixes Galore New My Account Proposal Discussion Language Text Updates David Garcia Watkins has updated all of the Spanish text translations to the Catalog module. If you wish to help out with translating the English text to Spanish or to German, please forward the Spanish text to David, and the German text to Jan Wildeboer. Other languages are welcome and should be made available in the Contributions ...

November 11, 2002Viewed: 705

Issue #14: November 11, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon November 11, 2002 Gmane News Server Synchronization Advanced Search Logic Update Shipping Selection Update USPS Shipping Module Update Date Of Birth Logic Update Checkout Procedure Progress Bar Update Gmane News Server Synchronization The forums are now being synchronized at Gmane, a news server synchronization service. The synchronizations are read-only, meaning you cannot post from the news server to the forums. The news server channels are available in the following ...

November 11, 2002Viewed: 794

Contributing Code Made Easy

Contributing code to the support site is now easy with the new Contributions section. Here you can upload your contribution in form of a package, where others can download and try out - straight away! Project managers are able to update the package's status once they have tested it, providing the level of security needed against untested (marked pending) packages. This section will be extended once the need for certain features and functionality arise. The Contributions section can be reached ...

November 04, 2002Viewed: 742

Issue #13: November 4, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon November 4, 2002 New Checkout Procedure Proposal Realized New cartID Protection Against False Orders New Zone Concept For Payment And Shipping Modules Company Field Now Attached To The Address Credit Card Validation Logic Replaced New Copyright Announcement For The Administration Tool Removal Of The FedEx Shipping Module New Security Layer For The HTTP Output Functions Images Assigned To Multiple Categories Or Products No Longer Removed New Checkout Procedure Proposal ...

September 23, 2002Viewed: 1111

Issue #12: September 23, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon September 23, 2002 New Team Member IRC Server Change Announcements Now At Gmane New Team Member We once again welcome another new member to the osCommerce team, Linda McGrath! Linda has provided continuous support to the community and to the project in forms of contributions. Being the first female member in the team, we are looking forward to the Girl-Power she'll be bringing in! IRC Server Change The IRC server at the Live Discussions section on the support site has ...

September 10, 2002Viewed: 735

Issue #11: September 10, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon September 10, 2002 New Team Member New Forums Online Checkout Procedure Rewrite FedEx Shipping Module New Team Member Ian C Wilson has joined the osCommerce team for his dedicated support in the forums and the dedicated work on his Credit Class feature. We all welcome Ian and look forward to the time he spends on the project. The Credit Class feature should be commited in the CVS repository as soon as the new checkout procedure has been commited. New Forums Online New ...

August 19, 2002Viewed: 831

Issue #10: August 19, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon August 19, 2002 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Checkout And Order Security Issues Search Engine Safe Urls PHP3 Compatibility Windows Date Problem Readdressed Installation Module Updates For PHP-CGI Servers Whos Online Logic Update File Upload Standards Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Tamura Toshihiko informed the developers forum of cross site scripting vulnerabilities existing in the 2.2-CVS codebase. The posting can be read at: ...

July 29, 2002Viewed: 731

Issue #9: July 29, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon July 29, 2002 Progressing Towards 2.2 New German Support Site Online CVS: Update To Order Class CVS: Update To Breadcrumb Logic CVS: New .htaccess File For SSL Servers CVS: Compatible date() Function For Windows Servers Progressing Towards 2.2 Reaching the 2.2 final state has slowed down this month with little coding occuring. This is due to the holiday season in Europe, the nice summer in Europe, and personally I have moved to a new house in the Eifel area in Germany. ...

June 29, 2002Viewed: 927

The TNS Interactive - Global eCommerce Report 2002

Now in its third year, the TNS Interactive - Global eCommerce Report 2002 has been made publicly available, which is a syndicated marketing information study designed specifically to assess the current impact of the Internet, and in particular ecommerce, in 37 key countries globally. Key Facts about the Global eCommerce Report 2002 include: 37 countries covered across the world. Covers internet penetration, ecommerce penetration, products purchased online, reasons for not purchasing ...

June 18, 2002Viewed: 1124

Security Fix For The Exchange Project Preview Release 2.1

Overview Example Solution Notes Links Overview The Exchange Project Preview Release 2.1 [released March 2001] contains a security issue which can be taken advantage of by using the global variable scope that PHP provides. The security issue concerns the following files: catalog/includes/include_once.php admin/includes/include_once.php The cause of the security issue is the $include_file variable. If either of the pages are requested directly through a client, the $include_file variable does not ...

June 11, 2002Viewed: 747

Issue #8: June 11, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon June 11, 2002 Improved Performance With cPath Integers As Strings Which Begin With 0 iPayment Payment Module Updated New Country State/Zone Selection Logic Product Popup Image And Javascript Recent Spamming Issues Visual / User Interface Updates Tax Calculations -> Shipping vs Billing Address Improved Performance With cPath David Garcia Watkins has updated the tep_get_product_path() function (which calculates the category path to a product) by removing it altogether. ...

May 13, 2002Viewed: 823

Open Source vs Commercial TCO Report

Cybersource recently released a study comparing operating costs of businesses running Linux and Open Source solutions with those running Microsoft and commercial solutions. The report concludes, with the case study provided, that the T otal C ost of O wnership using Open Source solutions over 3 years on existing hardware and infrastructure can save 34.26% against commercial solutions, and 24.69% when new hardware and infrastructure is purchased. The Exchange Project (now ...

May 13, 2002Viewed: 701

Issue #7: May 13, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon May 13, 2002 CVS: Banner Statistics Graph CVS: Language Detection CVS: Invoice And Packaging Slips DISCUSSION: Tax Calculations And Rounding Download Problems New Featured Store: Spotit Australia PHP And Global Variables CVS: Banner Statistics Graph The three day banner statistics graph has been worked on to now display daily, monthly, and yearly statistics on the "view vs clicks" banner history data. If PHP is compiled with the GD graphics library, and has ...

April 23, 2002Viewed: 760

Issue #6: April 23, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon April 23, 2002 PROPOSAL: Moderated Reviews PROPOSAL: Zone Selection PROPOSAL: Language Detection PROPOSAL: Invoice And Packaging Slips CVS: Continue Shopping Link PHP 4.2.0 Released PROPOSAL: Moderated Reviews Mark Evans has submitted a proposal to implement a new feature of moderating reviews. This feature will allow a store administrator to review and accept or reject new product reviews before making the review publicly available straight after submition. A bad-word ...

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