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November 18, 2002Viewed: 782

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: 740

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: 857

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: 787

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: 1154

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: 771

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: 873

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: 787

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: 1004

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: 1225

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: 791

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: 874

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: 732

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: 799

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 ...

April 17, 2002Viewed: 822

New Mailing Lists

The mailing lists have been updated to use the new oscommerce.com domain. [email protected] has been changed to [email protected], and [email protected] is now [email protected]. Memberships have been automatically moved to the new addresses. Postings to the old addresses will automatically be forwarded to the new addresses for a period of 30 days. Due to the impact the online forums have on the performace of the web server, the new mailing lists ...

April 15, 2002Viewed: 759

Issue #5: April 15, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon April 15, 2002 Community Area Updates Mailing List Updates Weekly Summary Reports Moved PHP 4.2.0 RC3 Community Area Updates The Community area on the support site has been updated to allow guests (non logged in users) to view the content therein. The only places that need a log-in are the My Account and Live Discussions sections. A log-in is also required if you wish to post a message to the online forums. Caching has been added to the forum listings for a performance ...

April 10, 2002Viewed: 762

Issue #4: April 10, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon April 10, 2002 echo 'Hello World!'; CVS: New Order Class And Order Total Modules CVS: Performance Increase CVS: Cache Writing Directory Apache 2 Weekly Summary Reports Updates echo 'Hello World!'; It's a boy! Those were the words Katja and Jan Wildeboer heard on Monday the 8th of April, as their baby boy Julius arrived. Congratulations go to the already proud parents who have a daughter! To quote Mark Evans: Congratulations :-) How much did the shipping ...

March 17, 2002Viewed: 775

Issue #3: March 17, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon March 17, 2002 Progress On The New Tax Structure Implementation osCommerce Turns 2 Years Young CVS: New Logger Class CVS: New Layout For The Administration Tool CVS: Product Copy-To Feature Improved CVS: New Page Navigation Method New Showcases Available New Support Team Member Progress On The New Tax Structure Implementation Thomas Plänkers has commited part of the new tax structure implementation to the Catalog module. He and Jan Wildeboer will be finalizing the new ...

March 12, 2002Viewed: 851

Happy Birthday osCommerce!

Today marks the special occassion of osCommerce turning 2 years young! Actually, 3 months young to be exact from the date of the project name change :) It is exciting and amazing to see the early registered live shop entries still online today running on either the Preview Release 1.x series or who have upgraded over time to the Preview Release 2.x series. With new live shops continually being registered on the support site, it shows the diversity of persons, people, and businesses trusting ...

March 10, 2002Viewed: 765

Issue #2: March 10, 2002

By Harald Ponce de Leon March 10, 2002 CVS: Improved Origin-Redirection Implementation CVS: New Modular Newsletter Implementation CVS: New Product Notifications Newsletter Implementation Support Site: Improved Navigation For Live Shops Contributions, Number Of Pending CVS: Improved Origin-Redirection Implementation The origin redirection logic has been improved with a new flexible solution which tracks where the customer has navigated to. The origin redirection logic takes place, for example, ...

Success Case: Resolving oscb156 Migration Tool Error

Success Case: Optimizing V2 URLs for SEO and Compatibility

Success Case: PHP Error on Conversion

Success Case: Fixing the "Create-sec-file Failed Completely" Issue

Success Case: Resolving Import Errors in OSCB157

Success Case: Importing Process and Order Statuses

Success Case: Resolving Admin Area Error (#2)

Success Case: Seamless Migration from osCommerce v2 rc2 to the Latest Version

Success Case: Creating a Security Key During Migration

Success Story: Enhancing Security for the Admin Directory in osCommerce v4

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launch

grant

fund

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Creating Manual Orders

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Assigning and Moving Products to Categories

Managing Default Sort Order on Product Listing and Category

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Settings of E-commerce Tracking for Google Tag Manager

Setting up GA4

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Assigning Theme to Sales Channels

Deleting Sales Channels