Presentation given by expert OsCommerce developer to other team members.

1. Oscommerce By: PrashantShekher

2. POINTS Features of Oscommerce Quick Admin/Front demo File Structure DB Structure Template Integration Module Development Main Modules used in oscommerce Resources

3. Features of Oscommerce Compatible with PHP 4 and MySQL - easily portable to version 5. Multi-lingual English, German and Spanish by default. Unlimited number of products and categories. Automatic setup of e-commerce 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 (manual) credit card payments, and on-line payment processing. Multi-currency support via manual update from exchange rate server. Support for dynamic images (one image per product). Supports physical products as well as product downloads. Web-based administration module. Database backup and restore. Temporary and permanent shopping carts. Secure transactions with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support. Many shipping options including by weight, price, or destination. Real-time shipping quote integration with UPS, USPS. Zone-based shipping options as well as a free shipping option as part of Order Totals Module. Full tax functionality, included compounded taxes, different zones for different products.

4. DRAWBACK No Search-engine optimizations No XHTML/CSS based default layout XSS (The oscommerce platform suffers from a XSS vulnerability because it does not properly sanitize (process of removing sensitive information) ) No inbuilt template system

5. Quick Admin/Front demo Configuretion - Cache - quicker loading the next time it is accessed. Configuration -> cache Tools -> cache Categories Box File – does not exist Manufactures Box File – does not exist Also Purchased Module File does not exist GZIP Compression will speed up the time it takes for your osCommerce pages to load on most servers.Normal setting is 5 but if you have a lot of traffic set to 9. gzip compression to compress their web pages in order to save bandwidth. Download - link allows customer downloading of products after they are purchased. Catalog - The products expected section is a listing of any products that you have given an expected date to be in the store through the product's description area.

6. Basic Layout /File or Folder Structure

7. oscommerce-2.2rc2a Catalog admin : : Include Box (Folder) Language (Folder) Modules (Folder) Classes (Folder) Functions (Folder) column_left.php (Related to BOX folder) column_right.php (Related to BOX folder) database_tables.php (Related to list of all database file) filenames.php (Related to list of all php file) header.php footer.php

8. DB Structure tep_db_connect() tep_db_close($link = 'db_link') tep_db_error($query, $errno, $error) tep_db_query($query, $link = 'db_link') tep_db_perform($table, $data, $action = 'insert', $parameters = '', $link = 'db_link') tep_db_fetch_array($db_query) tep_db_num_rows($db_query) tep_db_data_seek($db_query, $row_number) tep_db_insert_id() tep_db_free_result($db_query) tep_db_fetch_fields($db_query) tep_db_output($string) tep_db_input($string) tep_db_prepare_input($string)

9. Template Integration In default oscommerce 2.2 rc2, 2.1, as no template system There is some template system Add-Ons BTS (Basic Template System) – for Programmer. STS (Simple Template System) – for designers – The output is in the form of $variables that you can place on your HTML template page.

10. Module Development How To Set Session $mysession = 5; tep_session_register(‘mysession'); echo ((tep_session_is_registered('testss'))>0) ? 'Mysession Value='.$_SESSION['testss'] : 'Mysession Value='.'Not Set'; tep_session_unregister('mysession'); session destroy Removing Add to cart when user is not logged in – tep_session_is_registered('customer_id') if (( STORE_SHOW_GUESTS_PRICES == 'true' ) && (! tep_session_is_registered('customer_id') ) ) { } else { echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.png', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); }?>

11. 1) products_last_view_item create field in products table ALTER TABLE `products` ADD `products_last_view_item` DATETIME NULL AFTER `products_gift_card` ; 2) $update_sql_data = array('products_last_view_item' => 'now()'); $sql_data_array = array_merge($sql_data_array, $update_sql_data); tep_db_perform(TABLE_PRODUCTS, $sql_data_array, 'update', "products_id = '" . (int)$product_id . "'"); OR tep_db_query("update " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " set products_last_view_item = now() where products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "'"); product_info.php (Set in top) 3) – box – $viewed_query = tep_db_query("select pd.products_name, p.products_image,p.products_last_view_item from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where pd.language_id = '" . $languages_id . "' and pd.products_id = p.products_id order by p.products_last_view_itemdesc limit 1"); if ($viewed_info = tep_db_fetch_array($viewed_query)) { $name = $viewed_info['products_name']; $image = $viewed_info['products_image']; }

12. Main Modules used in oscommerce Ultimate SEO URLS(http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2823) Administration Access Level Accounts 2.0 (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1359) Image Resize – 1) During Upload in admin side 2) ‘on the fly’ image resize - http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6941 Product Compare (http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/2192) Modern Design admin (http://www.pedroescribano.com/oscommerce-downloads/oscommerce-2.2rc2a-SPARX.zip)

13. Resources documentation.pdf tep_database-pr2.2-CVS.pdf http://www.oscommerce.info/kb/osCommerce