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About osCommerce Software
osCommerce (for “Open Source Commerce”) is a powerful e-commerce and full-featured online store-management software program.
It uses the Apache web server, PHP language and mySQL database and is available for free under the GNU General Public License. Websites created with osCommerce can be easily maintained and administered by a non-technical person using the Administrative interface and a web browser. The program can be installed and configured in a couple of hours by a moderately-skilled webmaster.
osCommerce Key Features
1. Fully compatible with PHP 4 and MySQL
2. UNLIMITED number of products and categories
3. All features enabled by default
4. Multi-lingual English, German and Spanish by default
5. Automatic web-based installation
6. Automatic setup of ecommerce payment systems: Authorize.net, 2CheckOut.com, iPayment.de, PayPal.com, PsiGate.com, SECPay.com, and TrustCommerce.com; Many other add-on ecommerce payment systems, off-line and on-line payment processing
7. Multi-currency support
8. Support for dynamic images
9. Supports physical products as well as product downloads
10. Web-based administration module
11. Easy database backup and restore
12. Temporary and permanent shopping carts
13. Secure transactions with SSL Secure Sockets Layer support
14. Many shipping options including by weight, price, or destination
15. Real-time shipping quote integration with UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc.
16. Zone-based shipping and free shipping options
17. Full tax functionality, different zones for different products
osCommerce Modifications
There are thousands of modifications or add-ons to osCommerce, called contributions because they are contributed back to the group for free by an active development community under the GNU Public License. The contributions range from a few lines explaining how to do something, to elaborate programs that run within the program, and language packs for nearly any language. This makes osCommerce even more powerful and robust over time.
osCommerce History
osCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon as The Exchange Project . While officially osCommerce is still in its development stage, the current Milestone 2.2 release is considered stable as evidenced by the thousands of stores around the world which sport the phrase, “powered by osCommerce.” The planned Milestone 3.0 is expected to be a major re-write of the program to incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template system to allow easy layout changes, and inclusion of an administration-area username and password definition during installation.
Ahorre October 9, 2005 06:50 PM