Deep Inside Oscommerce: The Cookbook - Softcover

Mathe, Monika

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847190901 ISBN 13: 9781847190901

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

This cookbook provides you with ready-made solutions for customizing your osCommerce installation and ¿seasoning it with exciting new features. With a total of 69 recipes, this book helps you improve all important areas of your default installation. Written by an acknowledged osCommerce expert, the book does not only give you ready solutions that you can easily incorporate into your system, but it also explains to you how these solutions work and shows you in detail how to implement them. This also helps you learn about the underlying API and later create your own variations to suit your very own taste. The focus of this book is to give solutions to specific problems. Anyone with a working knowledge of osCommerce will find this book to be a valuable support tool. The hacks in this book are original and derived from the author's custom coding projects and support posts on the osCommerce forum and are supplementary to the existing contributions on the site. This book is for people who are already familiar with osCommerce. It presumes a working knowledge of PHP and HTML, as well as basic understanding of phpMyAdmin for database inserts.

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About the Author

Fascinated by being able to combine logic and creativity, it seems that destiny had finally found me when I became a software developer and Oracle Certified Database Administrator. It was a tough call to decide in which field to work, but landing a position in a marketing agency and working with everything from Oracle to SQL-Server and HTML, ASP and JavaScript was a fabulous decision I still congratulate myself for! I learned more about marketing campaigns, e-commerce, CMS and CRM than I had ever wanted to know, I mean, ever thought was possible! I have been completely absorbed by the Open Source Community - I became an avid believer in php and in MySQL, and definitely in a love affair with osCommerce. I believe almost anything can be done with it... I challenge anyone to prove me wrong! Being an active member of the osCommerce Online Community, I know preemptively which questions will arise in new shop creation. Presently, I am creating as many customised shops for clients as time allows: of course while urging them to add as many custom coded modules as I see fit... that's dessert for me! www.MonikaMathe.com osCommerce Profile Name Monika in Germany

Synopsis

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better. This book is aimed at people with existing online stores, built using osCommerce. The book follows a systematic approach whereby users can modify and extend features on their already existing osCommerce site. Each chapter deals with a different aspect , and provides ready-made recipes for modifying code to your requirements. The author starts by explaining basic changes one can make to the design of your store, and then covers features like navigation, images, shipping and payment modules, and even explains how to make changes on the administrator's side and keeping your own recipes private.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1847190901
• ISBN 13: 9781847190901
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400