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Success Story: Setting a Fixed Width in osCommerce
April 07, 2025
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Success Story: Disabling Mobile View Layout in osCommerce 4
April 04, 2025
Success Story: Disabling Mobile View Layout in osCommerce 4<p> ...
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Success Story: Displaying All Products on the Homepage
April 02, 2025
Success Story: Displaying All Products on the Homepage ...
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Success Story: Resolving Theme Customization Timeout Issue
March 31, 2025
Success Story: Resolving Theme Customization Timeout Issue ...
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Success Story: Ensuring Accessible Tab Displays for All Users
March 28, 2025
Success Story: Ensuring Accessible Tab Displays for All Users ...
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Success Story: Adjusting Thumbnail Spacing in Product Display
March 26, 2025
Success Story: Adjusting Thumbnail Spacing in Product Display ...
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Success Story: Correcting a Typo in the Neighbour Comments Text
March 24, 2025
Success Story: Correcting a Typo in the Neighbour Comments Text ...
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Success Story: Easily Move Products Between Categories in osCommerce
March 21, 2025
Success Story: Easily Move Products Between Categories in osCommerce ...
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Success Story: Restoring the Paging Widget on Subcategory Pages
March 19, 2025
Success Story: Restoring the Paging Widget on Subcategory Pages ...
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Success Story: Changing Product Weight in Bulk
March 17, 2025
Success Story: Changing Product Weight in Bulk ...
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Installing Opayo Server by Elavon for osCommerce 2.2 via Installer

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Installing Opayo Server for osc 2.3 via Installer

Installing Opayo for osc 2.3 via Installer

Installing Opayo Server for osc 2.3 via Zip File

Installing Opayo for osc 2.3 via Zip File

Configuring Opayo for osс 2.3

Configuring Opayo Server for osc 2.3

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Testing Opayo Server for osc 2.3 on Front End

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osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2
We proudly present the immediate availability of the second milestone release of osCommerce 2.2, which is on demonstration at the LinuxTag 2003 event in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Milestone 2 release contains numerous updates to strengthen the security on both client and server side of operations. The "Security and Privacy Proposal" was realized to strengthen security on the client side, whos main purpose is to protect the clients session ID. This includes a 'force cookie usage' ...
osCommerce at LinuxTag 2003
osCommerce will be present at this years LinuxTag event, the largest Linux and Open Source fair in Europe, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, from July 10th to 13th. osCommerce will be located at booth F21 with PHP and other related projects such as MySQL, SQLite, Midgard, and DB Designer, under the motto of "PHP and Friends". osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 will be showcased, which contains the privacy and security proposal implementation, now properly supports servers with shared SSL certificates ...
Issue #30: June 30, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon June 30, 2003 osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Progress New Forum Testing Site Improved Method Of Storing Product Prices Discussions regarding this weekly report can be found here: https://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49634 osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Progress As everyone has noticed, we've missed the release date stated in the previous summary report. The good news to that is, we've closed a lot of bug reports since then and are happy to announce that ...
Issue #29: June 13, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon June 13, 2003 osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Release Date User Input Now Sanitized default.php Now index.php New In The Press Section Discussions regarding this weekly report can be found here: https://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47793 osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Release Date The release date for osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 has been set to 17.06.2003. This allows the Administration Tool to be put through the standards updates routine, and to perform a security ...
Issue #28: May 28, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon May 28, 2003 2.2 Milestone 2 Progress My Account Proposal Realization Search Added To Contributions Discussions regarding this weekly report can be found here: https://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=46074 2.2 Milestone 2 Progress osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 will be released within a week with all Milestone 2 workboard entries finalized. A new entry has been added to the Milestone path with Milestone 2 having a security audit for both Catalog and Administration ...
Issue #27: April 23, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon April 23, 2003 Signed E-Mails News and Announcements Forum Channel Work In Development SunSite.dk Server Problems Security And Privacy Proposal Updates E-Mail Validation Update Discussions regarding this weekly report can be found here: https://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42076 Signed E-Mails Cases have been reported again where emails are received with forged headers that make it look like it's originating from osCommerce team members. The fake emails ...
Issue #26: March 24, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon March 24, 2003 Live Discussions Offline Security And Privacy Proposal Updates New File Upload Class Contributions Added/Updated In The Last 3 Days Live Discussions Offline The IRC based Live Discussions section on the support site has been taken down due to the activities there remaining unmonitored. The original intentions of the section was to provide a possibility of chatting with project developers on special events and occassions. The Live Discussions section will ...
Issue #25: March 17, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon March 17, 2003 Security And Privacy Proposal Filenames And Database Tables Definitions Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Tax Implementation Update New Wiki Documentation Site Contributions Added/Updated In The Last 3 Days Security And Privacy Proposal The Security And Privacy Proposal discussed on the Developers forum has been realized and is now in CVS. The implementation introduces a new Sessions configuration group with three parameters: SESSION_WRITE_DIRECTORY ...
Issue #24: February 25, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon February 25, 2003 osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 1 Released Updates To The Redirection Logic Navigation History Update Virtual Products Update Security Proposal Realization I'm A Believer Contributions Added/Updated In The Last 3 Days osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 1 Released osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 1 was finally released after a short delay - congratulations to the team for all the hard work, and to the community for the ever lasting support. More information on the release can ...
osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 1
We proudly present the immediate availability of the first milestone release of osCommerce 2.2, our first public release in nearly two years since Preview Release 2.1. osCommerce 2.2-MS1 is bundled with the Catalog frontend and the Administration Tool backend, and is available in 3 languages - English, German, and Spanish. With a lot of work gone into the long development cycle, the release of 2.2-MS1 includes a wide range of feature enhancements, additions, and security updates that will form ...
Issue #23: February 6, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon February 6, 2003 Announcements Mailing List Fix Checkout Procedure Chicken And Egg Problem Order Total Shipping Module Tax Update Administration Tool -> Invoice Update Default Text Updated Control Characters In The Database Dump Removed Blank Records Being Inserted In Orders Table Free Shipping Feature Completed Shipping Module Tax Assignment USPS International Shipping Fix Order Total Low Order Fee Module Fix Warnings Now Shown With Disabled Products Order Comment And ...
Issue #22: January 27, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon January 27, 2003 Order Total Tax Module Update E-Mail Validation Update Server Upgrade Order Total Tax Module Update The order total tax module has been updated to display the tax rate title instead of the tax rate value on the checkout confirmation page. This change has a bigger impact on stores where multiple tax rates are used, for example Canadian based stores. A thread has been started in the forums to discuss if the update has any legal issues. The thread can be read ...
Issue #21: January 21, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon January 21, 2003 GZip Compression Checkout Confirmation Edit Links Security Proposal Forum Post Regarding Contributions Forum Statistics Contributions Mirrored GZip Compression New GZip compression features have been commited to the CVS repository, which, when enabled, can compress the HTML text sent to browsers by up to 80% in filesize. The implementation of the feature should be compatible across numerous server environments and will only compress the HTML text if the ...
Issue #20: January 16, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon January 16, 2003 Shopping Cart Content Password Validation Routines Updated Zones In Payment And Shipping Modules Default Order Status On A Per Payment Module Basis Sort Order For Shipping And Payment Modules New Log Off Page New Off-Topic Forum Channels Shopping Cart Content A new method was added to the shopping cart class which returns the type of products existing in the customers shopping cart. The method, called get_content_type(), returns one of the following: * ...
Issue #19: January 6, 2003
By Harald Ponce de Leon January 6, 2003 Enjoy The New Year Privacy Issue With Sessions Propose Contributions New Tips and Tricks Forum Channel Enjoy The New Year 2002 was a great year for osCommerce in regard to internal issues. Unfortunately the ever-mighty 2.2 release has yet to be finalized and is still in the development process. With the Milestone path set on the Workboard, the first Milestone release is set to be released sometime this month. This will make this year a terrific year for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 :) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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