osCommerce 3.0.2

I have an orphaned highly customized fork of oscommerce that I am wondering if anyone would be interested in taking on as a new open source project. None of the other open source carts I have seen, seem to have any of these features including the current version of oscommerce.

Our business at the time was wholesale and we handled thousands of unique, one-off or custom made products, so we needed to make extensive modifications before we had something that would work for us. This was AFTER we had already installed and intigrated most ofthe major b2b or wholesale contributions. The end result was a practically new application which is streamlined to be able to manage thousands of products and very large orders. For large orders its quite powerful.

To discard that much code seems a waste (I am technical enough but definately not a programmer). At present the project has sat dormant for the past few years as we have changed our business model. The work was originally done almost full time, over a period of three years. When we stopped the two main things that needed to be addressed to bring it back up to speed were to remove the register globals feature and to upgrade the code to PHP5.

If anyone is interested in continuing on with this, feel free to email me (rschwendeman@hotmail.com).

Some of the features we wrote include (short list):
Report generator (very extensive, creates reports based on orders. Fields can be selected, items sorted, various details hidden)
Generate printing labels for each item in an order (size of lable can be customized)
multi-photo manager (to batch upload, resize and then organize and import hundreds of photos into the catalog)
Completely redesigned and tabbed order editor (very extensive, every aspect of an order can be edited, from photo to price to serial number)
Show/hide product images in catalog admin and orders page (for large orders with hundreds of items, otherwise loading a page can be slow with that many items)
Copy unique item from an order into the catalog as a new item (allows you to sell an unique item in an order and then copy the details into the catalog as well)
Customer configurable PDF catalog
individual product serial numbers
Production statuses for each order item (allows you to assign multiple phases and statuses to each item such as "design phase, production phase, qc etc)
customize thumbnail image on products in orders (for each individual product in a specific order a new thumbnail can be uploaded - good for antiques or custom made items or special items you don't want in the catalog but want in a order)
Cache system
Hooks for dotproject (web based project manager)
Basic warehouse feature (to track inventory locations)
Hooks for weberp
Logistics module to copack items into containers. Customers can see items in their container from the front end as well.
Customer entered comments (can be view and made from front end and backend). Private comments can be made in back end.
Move - copy products between different orders
Basic vendor and supplier contact database
Multiple suppliers can be assigned to each product
Order comments can be sent via email to both customersand/or internal staff
Changes to orders are tracked via a history
hide left/right columns on main page only for a cleaner main page.
new configurable info box locations in the footer
Tons of custom fields like "confirmation code, quoted price, sales rep, job numbers etc)
Rewrites to use "smarty template system."

osCommerce 3.0.2 is not the current Stable release of osCommerce. It is still in development. You would be better served to switch back to the Stable Release version of 2.3.1.

Note the following from the osCommerce.com website:
Note: osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is currently in development and does not yet contain the same user-end features that v2.3 has. This release is recommended for developers and users who are participating in its development and are providing feedback.

http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/oscommerce

This is one of the best ever Open source e-commerce CMS. It bundles all the good feature for designing, setting and running a successful online store.
Thanks for the out of the box CMS that matches the variety of needs perfectly.

I am a web developer who was recently tasked with investigating a client's hacked oscommerce install. After looking at the code I quickly realized what a steaming pile of garbage it is. Seriously, I have never seen such awful, old-fashioned, insecure code in all of my professional life. One of the "security" features they use depended on the name of the file as read from the URL. This means that by simply typing the name of that file into the url bar in the right place anyone could access sensitive backend information! I cannot believe that something as poorly coded and insecure as oscommerce has garnered the high ratings on here that is has. It is a ticking time-bomb for any merchant that uses it and I would suggest you use ANYTHING else.

i read through the comments and felt compelled to thorough my hat into the ring. A lot of people mention issues with 'theming' and working with the OSC template. So i have to mention our brand spanking new product (free before admin blocks the comment..lol)

I am sure a lot of you have heard of Wordpress, the biggest CMS on the planet with a zillion easy to edit themes? Well we have created a custom oscommece plug in that drops a full OSC store into ANY wordpress theme...solving all OSC theme problems.

you can take a look at it and sign up to test it here www.wponlinestore.com

I hope it solves a few problems and bring a few people back over to the joys of osCommerce

cheers
Garfield

GoldenPlanet is using OSC as engine for their OpenbBizBox solution.

It's horrible to work with, especially the editor is a pile of crap.

Also, it's backend module lacks a lot of features, eg. modifying an order, making an manual order eg. if a customer phones an order in.

It also lacks serialnumer management.

Maybe usefull for a hobbysalesman selling healing stones or stockings, but thats about all.

osCommerce 2.3.1 is a horrible piece of software. No theming support and the module system is barely worth mentioning. The code is messy and you have to hack away at core files to achieve even simple customisations. I had the misfortune of having to build a production shop using this crap and it was a nightmare from start to finish. Avoid it at all costs! If you are building a simple store use OpenCart instead.

This is a horrible piece of rubbish.
ZenCart is modeled on this and has lots of security issues.

Thank you for offering the admin-view of Oscommerce 2.3.1. I've been using Oscommerce since 2005 and developed some excellent PHP skills because of Oscommerce; it requires a lot of customizations if you want to differ yourself from the "default" style and feel.

I wanted to see what 2.3.1 was all about, to see if it was worth trashing my countless customizations.. it isn't. 2.3.1 looks (nearly) identical to my classic 2.2 (with RC updates & security patches).

Fooey to all of these people below griping about Oscommerce - it's one of the most versatile & easy to use shopping cart systems available. Earlier this evening I gave Magento, Prestashop, etc. all a test drive and they're all bloated & have such nonsensical features/navigation compared to Oscommerce.

I'm quite happy with my ancient, legacy version of Oscommerce. I will be keeping an eye on OSC to ensure I'm up-to-date security-wise, but other than that; there is no need for Oscommerce to change. It's perfect as-is!

After spending some more time with adjusting an old installation:

Too many files nested in too many folders, no proper separation of code and layout (have to search through the thousand files to find the HTML tags you want to change and "hack" the PHP code, which is then lost on a new version installation), use of deprecated HTML, no proper and simple theming function/support, impossible to update from a very old version. It's faster to add all the products again and ask your customers to re-register, than to add the database updates which don't work anyway in the end...

Looks like the typical open source attempt of nerdy, self-absorbed Linux coders that don't understand what the average users want and need.

Too complicated too install, administrate, update. Also, PHP-Nuke-like three-column layouts were never "in".

it's real that osCommerce has been dead for many years.
But was the best.
I have already 172 e-shops on osc,
But you have to rewrite some piece of code.
When i am ready i will use the opencart
but in this script too you have to write some code,
you have to make your own bridges between versions.

OsCommerce is in soft words not designed well, this can be used only for very very simple shopping cards with products that dont require any options or attributes such as size or color or other variants. I am trying to setup a website for client and its very difficult to do this with osCommerce. One of the biggest and not to be rude but stupidest problems I've seen in it is if I try to add color attributes it is very difficult, there is no way to create a set and copy over to other product, after I tried several add-ons that did not work one did but still would not even show them in alphabetical order which makes it seem very unprofessional since that is a fairly easy to program. The images are not even resized with GD or other way. Anyway I seen they are coming with improved version, but its not stable yet, and I think Im done working through this mess of OsCommerce and looking to try another solution...

OSC is very powerful eCommerce system as lots of free modules are available. Also coding is very easy to customize.

Osc is actually obsolete. I refused to believe that the software came without any templates.
The concept of tableless is far from osc.
¿Templates? ¿Layouts? ¿What is that?
After some work I installed STS (a module for osc to use templates), but OSC needs a serious rework.
The version 3 continues on Alpha stage since I remember.
After some bad experiences, I tried with Zen Cart. It suprised me that Zen Cart and Osc were actually so similar. Later I find out that they shared the same core code, BUT there is a lot of work in Zen Cart. Zen Cart is superior in many ways to osc. I gave up and I'm giving a chance to ZC.