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Can osCommerce 3.0 Compete with Magento?

I’ve Google’d here and there to see what’s been happening with osCommerce 3.0. Mostly nothing it would appear.
But recently I’ve seen some interesting – if tentative – signs of life. Seems the repository has been moved over to Github. Can the “social coding” encourage a growth of interest in osCommerce? See also the blip.tv presentation [...]

Get An Email List Out of Your osCommerce Database

I’ve found it necessary to get an email list out of a few osCommerce stores so that I can export that data to a mailing house.
Please note that this SQL doesn’t look at the customer’s newsletter selection – our external company handles whether or not they wish to receive e-mail from us. So you may [...]

MySQL 5 How to Create a VIEW – and what is it anyway?

We were recently disussing adding the ship-via method to the orders table because we had simplistic software mapping into our (or more precisely out of) our osCommerce database – it merely maps field for field.
So when you want to query something even mildly complex you have trouble – for example, the temptation to duplicate the [...]

Why It Takes So Long … to Teach Staff how to Add Product to the New Site

Ready to teach staff how to add product to new site.

Run MagneticOne Store Manager.
Can’t connect to new server database.
Open phpMyAdmin to add new users to database.
Connected OK to database.
Can’t ftp to new server.
Try to X Window in to enable ftp.
Xdmcp is not enabled.
Enable it.
init 3; init 5 on new server
PC X Server Client wants to [...]