osCommerce Waste of Time?

Posted on April 11, 2007
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Have you ever worked for a long time trying to improve something only to discover its already been done?

osCommerce, a popular open-source eCommerce solution has been my fundamental commerce site design tool second only to xCart, but over time I took notice that I had been performing the same tasks over and over again and decided to put that madness to rest.

Ambition and determination as the driving force for my objective I had spent a solid week modding and altering osCommerce to include dozens of very popular and in my opinion very necessary modifications. Hell bent on making osCommerce easier to template by cleaning up the exhaustively messy code and applying tag points for DreamWeaver, my modification came off without a hitch and serves as my new design foundation for future osCommerce projects. Although Great! I discovered to my frustration a similar endeavor has already been done by Michael over at http://www.oscmax.com.

The nice thing about Michael’s modded version of osCommerce is the backwards compatibility of the code. Having used other forked versions like ZenCart and CRELoaded, the big headache with such loaded projects is the lack of compatibility with existing OSC Mods.

Granted, both ZenCart and CRELoaded are good modifications of osCommerce, each share a common similarity to their predecessor or should I say birthing since osCommerce is still the #1 free open-source solution being used today for shopping carts.

Lessons learned, I set out to redo the osCMax administrator interface to match the lengthy modified osCommerce version I had satisfactorily completed some time ago.

The objective is still the same but the method to getting there has changed. New found vigor and determination, I’ll port my template inventory for osCMax as well now that I’m close to publishing them over at templatedesignkit.com

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