osCommerce was started in March 2000, and is the leading Open Source online shop e-commerce solution. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, license fees, or limitations involved.
Today, the osCommerce community consists of over 62,000 store owners, developers, designers, and enthusiasts.
The success of osCommerce is secured by a great and active community where members help one another out and participate in development issues reflecting upon the current state of the project.
Inmeres Solutions Ltd, through www.oscommercetemplates.biz, is very much part of this community and has helped dozens of store owners taking their site to the next level, through template integration, contribution development, store setup, and osCommerce hosting.
osCommerce has inspired a number of "spin-off", which add functionality to the core osCommerce engine.
Two of the most popular are ZenCart (www.zencart.com) and creLoaded (www.creloaded.com). They both include dozens of contributions and improvement over the standard osCommerce package. Each has their pros and cons, and the choice has to which one to use is entirely up to the store owner. We will be more than happy to help you decide which one is the most appropriate for your site.
osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC2 Released
We are proud to announce an advancement of the osCommerce 2.2 release series with the new osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 2 release. This second release candidate addresses issues introduced in the previous release candidate release and addresses longer termed issues from 2.2 Milestone 2.
No major features have been introduced with this release candidate as our development efforts are focused on our upcoming 3.0 release, but does include the following changes:
- Over 15 bug fixes and improvements.
- Improved register_globals compatibility layer for PHP 4.3+ servers.
- New and updated payment modules that include PayPal Express Checkout, PayPal Direct Payments, PayPal Website Payments Standard, Authorize.net AIM and SIM, WorldPay, and more.
- Introduce the ability for payment modules to show checkout buttons on the shopping cart page.
- Introduce the ability for order shipping and billing addresses to be defined from an external source (ie, payment method).
- Introduce a public status - Visit official osCommerce web site
osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 and PHP 5
The PHP Group recently announced that support for PHP 4 will be discontinued at the end of this year to focus on the production-ready PHP 5 and the upcoming PHP 6 releases.
The announcement from the PHP Group can be read here:
http://www.php.net/index.php#2007-07-13-1
This announcement impacts our current v3.0 development roadmap, our vision for the final v3.0 release, and our support policy for released versions, where we have decided to also drop support for PHP 4 in osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 and to optimize it for PHP 5.
This gives us v3.0 Alpha 5 and v3.0 Alpha 6 to remove PHP 4 compatibility coding logic and to optimize the framework with the new features PHP 5 provides. As the current state of the v3.0 framework has already moved to an Object Oriented design, optimizing it for - Visit official osCommerce web siteosCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 RC1 Released
We are proud to announce an advancement of the osCommerce 2.2 release cycle with a new release titled osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 Release Candidate 1. This is primarily a bug fix release for the 2.2 series and will be the last release made before the 2.2 release series is finalized. We are currently in the process of certifying the payment modules included in this release which will be the only change for the final osCommerce Online Merchant v2.2 release planned in the coming weeks.
No major features have been introduced with this release candidate as our development efforts are focused on our upcoming 3.0 release, but does include the following changes:
* Over 25 bug fixes and improvements
* register_globals compatibility for PHP 4.3+ servers
* Visa PCI conformance of accepting credit card information on the checkout confirmation page
* Public - Visit official osCommerce web site