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[Mark Withington]

Well, I'm not sure that I could say it's really nice ;-) but try
http://www.uttermost.com . It uses an osCommerce snapshot.

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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]On Behalf Of
joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:51 AM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] osCommerce questions ...


Has anyone ever seen a really nice catalog/front end done with oscommerce? 

Josh

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andrew Yochum wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:54:19AM -0400, jon baer wrote:
> > 2 questions ...
> > 
> > * have there been any *bad* experiences with using the package?
> 
> You have to be very aware of versions of OS Commerce & contributions, some
> contributions are modules/plugins and some are patches/hacks.  You'll have
to
> be carefull of matching versions for your modules and patches and then be
extra
> careful not to overwrite your own customizations w/ patches.  Before you
plunge
> into adding in some contribution, RTFM fully and understand just what kind
of
> contribution it is and what you're getting yourself into.
> 
> The reason for this is that some parts of OS Commerce were made  to allow
for
> modules (shipping, payment, taxation, etc) ... while some were not
(product
> fields, non-product content, etc).  Keep in mind that this also affects
your
> own modifications to it... some things were designed to be easily
modified,
> while others were not.
> 
> > * can the admin be locked down or be used only offsite with say a
tunneled
> > p'keyd mysql connection ...
> 
> Shouldn't be a problem at all.  The admin and the store are basically two
> entirely separate apps, with separate config files and all, so piping the
mysql
> connection for the admin over a tunnel should be easy.
>  
> Andrew
> 
> 

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