I got to thinking about what barriers osCommerce places in front of a purchaser. One of the main barriers is the whole checkout process - you can read a good summary of why the checkout process is awful at W&W's Blog.
For my own Store, I have reduced the Checkout Steps quite a bit and […]
I sat down to do this many months ago, but probably got bored of looking at code. Anyway, I just 40 minutes getting it working, and in my test installation it works OK!
The problem is that I cannot package it up as a GPL contribution as the license for the Code that I re-used […]
osCommerce suffers from a very serious Bug as it is possible to manipulate any Shop (that has not been patched) to get free of charge products and services. This is not a major hassle for those Shop Owners who check each and every order before sending, but for those who sell downloadable products and those […]
I finally heard back from Harald with regards Corporate Sponsorship.
I apologize for the delay in getting back to you, I had a week off the week before last, and last week I was offline while waiting for our telephone company to replace a faulty DSL modem.
Regarding your enquiry to participate in the osCommerce Corporate Sponsorship […]
I own and operate the site www.oscbooks.com/affclicks.php?pid=null - what I am looking for is business owners who would like to explore the possibility of becoming an affiliate (eg designers/developers, hosts, ISPs etc). As well as these "add-on" opportunities, I'm also interested in hearing from anyone who would like to create a stand alone business selling […]
http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/14294/info
osCommerce is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to display the contents of any file normally readable by the Web server process.
Successful exploitation would result in information disclosure. Information obtained could be used to aid in further attacks against the underlying system; other attacks are also possible.
This issue reportedly […]
osCommerce ran 3 "advertising schemes":
Google Adsense
A few pennies per click based on Adverts shown in certain pages
Community Sponsors
Pricing from 90 Euros to 120 Euros per year, in return for a few benefits such as "bigger Private Message Inbox, Blog, hidden Sponsors Only Forum.
Corporate Sponsors
Banner shown in rotation with Google Adsense, as well as being listed […]
