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@VladMalThat's disappointing. There is still a large number of shops using the old version and they may not be ready to move to V4 yet. I think they will feel abandoned. And the older versions are still considered Oscommerce. Just my opinion but I think deleting those was a mistake.

I make myself available to support a server and relative web archive structure at my own expense that contains all the old contributions and versions of oscommerce.

I distinctly remember Vadym promising me when we skyped about V4 that the Addons for legacy osCommerce versions would remain accessible. They were available from a subdomain called apps.oscommerce.com, (previously addons.oscommerce.com). apps.oscommerce.com is now being redirected to app.oscommerce.com. It is therefore reassuring to know this content has not been deleted. I don’t quite follow the issue of it being technically impossible to keep “apps”operational on a LINUX server given subdomains can have their own PHP environments defined. Albeit the similar names would be confusing. Reverting to addons.oscommerce.com would be more workable. But if it is impossible then I suggest they be loaded to a new domain alltogether. I am happy to hand over ownership of oscommerce.cc for that use. We can imagine cc to mean community contributions, a nod to their original name. I should also point out that, apart from the fact people do need them, you use their existence in your marketing. You cannot claim to have 9,169 Addons for legacy osCommerce if they in fact no longer exist.

Are you kidding ???? Have you removed all the apps that the community has produced over the years ????? But who gave you this right ????? You bought the osCommerce brand and NOT THE WORK THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE have done over the years to support a FREE platform. Give us back all the apps and old versions. At least put an old version that you can consult

Create an archive area and not destroy 20 years of history.

+1 with @Jack_mcs Place the old addons in an archive area accessible to those who will not be able to quickly upgrade to V4 due to the absence of addons specific to their countries, like France for me. Otherwise you will very strongly limit the distribution of V4 😞

Dear all, As we are about to launch osCommerce v4 live, we need to update the main site and the Forums. Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th of July you may find both to be not fully stable. They will return to 100% stable mode by the end of the day on Friday. New additions and changes include: - new App shop (although it will go fully functional later this summer) - unified design of the site, Forums, and App shop - unified account - accounts for partners, authors, etc - new contents describing the system, partner programme, and other Have a lovely evening!

osCommerce 4.08 and THANK YOU I would like to thank all of my colleagues, who are now located in Ukraine, for their hard work in the most difficult and unimaginable circumstances! The integrity, and perseverance they demonstrate is incomparable to anything else I know. Thank you!

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Hi Ken Mine has been running since December: The Networking Store (network-cabling.co.uk) Kind regards Steve

Download and install Xampp from here: https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html The version I used was windows with php 8.1.12 It will install in the directory c:\xampp In c:\xampp\htdocs create the directory “catalog” Download the latest version of OSC4 from here: https://www.oscommerce.com/ Once downloaded unzip the files to c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog Start the xampp control panel and start Apache, MySql & Mercury In xampp control panel click on MySql admin tab – this will open xampp PhpMyAdmin where you need to create a new database and password. In your browser, navigate to localhost/catalog – This should start the installation process for OSC4 Initially the installation will fail due to a couple of services needed as follows: First PHP GD: See this link for the solution: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-php-gd-in-xampp/ Second PHP Extension intl: See this limk for the solution: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33869521/how-can-i-enable-php-extension-intl The installation may fail again when trying to install the database due to password issues – If so you may need to hard code your database password into the catalog/admin/includes/configure.php file at around line 52 The installation should now continue and complete (unless I forgot a step / adjustment somewhere….) Ok so now you can go to the browser and using localhost/catalog open your new website. BUT….. More changes are required to enable your access to your Admin / Backend as follows: Firstly from a post by @pandrei a change needed to: xampp/htdocs/catalog/admin/includes/local/configure.php and remove extra slash in these constants: define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '//oscommerce/store/admin/'); define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '//oscommerce/store'); Change to: define('DIR_WS_ADMIN', '/oscommerce/store/admin/'); define('DIR_WS_CATALOG', '/oscommerce/store'); You can now navigate to localhost/catalog/admin but the login will fail, as the Mercury email programme needs to be set up as follows: First make sure you have an email account and password set up (I created a gmail.com email account just for this purpose) Then you need to configure Mercury to send mails, there is lots of info out there, but this link is one of the most straightforward: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-configure-xampp-to-send-mail-from-localhost-using-php/ Next you need to make a change via the xampp mercury control panel, just a case of unchecking a box, which this link explains: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6809369/warning-mail-function-mail-smtp-server-response-553-we-do-not-relay-non-l You should now be able to login to your Admin / Backend – Simples! Disclaimer: As I did the install a few days ago I may have forgotten a step or change needed, so don’t blame me if it does not work or if you waste hours of time….. If it fails post here and I (or somebody who actually knows what they are doing) will try and help.

So the old version is.... blah, blah, blah. We get it, we know that. The new version is... blah, blah, blah. Still get it, still know that. So the >v4 addons are gone because the old version is... or is it because the new version is...? Makes no sense either way. There actually are users that actually realized the old version's of osCommerce were at EOL status, many who were probably weighing business decisions on how and when to change software. Some of those many users were probably keeping an eye on the new V4, waiting until they feel they can change and build up to meet their shops already existing requirements that there existing osCommerce shop has been customized to meet. Do you not realize how many existing users may want to look back at the old contributions they have had installed through the years? Maybe they have an issue and want to see the original code for debugging, upgrading it to work on modern server setups, etc; Maybe they want to see what it would take to "modernize" an older contribution, or completely make a new addon based on just the "idea" of an old contribution. Anyway you look at it, you alienated countless established users when taking down the old addons. You can repeat how the old version is "...", and the new version is "..." all you want, it doesn't help. People here are not dumb, they're smart enough to already know that. They're smart enough to make changes when their business allows, and they're also smart enough to find another software that will meet their business needs when the time for that change comes. Now all that was primarily the shop owner point of view in me. So how about the developer standpoint? With a quick look, on the surface, the new code shares a lot of the old code. Even makes use of a modified theme system that was an old addon, looks like maybe BTS? or something similar. So that says, hey I can take some old addons, redevelop them, and release them as new addons! But, maybe like, y'know, Holbi had the same idea. So lets just cutoff access to all those old ideas and maybe release the most popular as new and improved paid addons! You have every right to do it too. I feel like your going to push more away than you attract by removing the addons. Such a nonissue just to restore them, such a shit move not too. And believe me, people who know who I am, know I am all too familiar with shit moves and osCommerce. Either way, best of luck.

I think you're missing the point. You could have had progress and just let the old addons be. Now you risk losing both. BTW its not only the addons, but all the information that went along with each contribution people have made over 2 decades.

Those apps are also a wonderful way to learn about code and to get ideas etc. A very bad decision to remove them. Hopefully one that will be rectified.

I manually changed the configuration_key MODULE_SHIPPING_USPS_TYPES in the configuration table in the database as well. If you already made the changes in usps.php, then removing and installing the module would update the table. Seems to work ok now. Yeah, really tired of the usps api changes over the years.😠

We were able to restore access to the old osCommerce 2.x modules. They are located here: https://old.oscommerce.com/ They will be TEMPORARILY available in the read-only mode on this URL.

Wishing all osCommerce users and supporters a very Merry Christmas! It doesn't matter whether you celebrate this or that holiday, or follow this or that religion. It is about sharing love and care and rejoicing! Wishing you all to love and to be loved, to be merry these holidays! Yours, osCommerce Team

Hello, I know the circumstance in Ukraine are really difficult but I want to say to you thank you and I wish you all the best .

That will not be a problem - But first I need to spend a couple of days making sure its working on xampp as it should as I think there may be some minor issues.

" Support for older versions of osCommerce may be offered on these Forums, temporarily, although we encourage all users to move to the new, better, and more secure version. Support for other Ecommerce platforms and osCommerce forks WILL NOT be offered on these Forums. " I am two minded about investing the time and money in starting up a brand new domain and forum as a meeting place for people still interested in V2 osCommerce. The forum will be non commercial, for information exchange only, as osCommerce was in the beginning. How many people interested in this idea ?

We need access to the old addons now, not "shortly". If you refuse to provide access to this open source content authored by developers who offered this content for free, would you at least consider paid access? It's impossible for forum members to provide support to those in need if we can't reference the files.

Maybe a set of YouTube tutorials would be ideal? Creating a theme from scratch and possibly a cover of the features within and how to use them. I'm sorry but the Wiki is not great, both hard to understand and in some cases using a different backend than that shown in the screenshots.

Great ideas are never obsolete. Old code can easily be updated to PHP8 and made responsive. Serious mistake removing legacy addons, in my humble opinion.

Appreciate that at minimum the v2x app files will be available via FTP. If osC admin is not willing to allow the complete v2.x apps section of their website to stay alive, why not allow someone else to take over the apps website as it was using a different server and domain name? As Hotclutch mentioned, it is not just the app files, there was important information about changes to those apps. It is understandable that osC admin does not approve of using osC 2.x, but I fail to understand why osC admin has/will eliminate what has been built by the community over so many years? Many of those apps will run on updated and community osC 2.x systems that do run fine on modern server software. It is hard to trust companies that do not support their old products, even if those products are obsolete. I use old computers. I use old cell phones. I use old cars. The stairway in our home is obsolete and would not pass building code today, we still use it. I use old IP cameras, I understand there are risks when using obsolete products. I have no expectation that support by osC admin would be active, archives are fine. A FTP site is not a good archive unless it will contain all descriptive text that went along with the files, all versions of the files, and is searchable so people can find what they need, as the old apps section was.

a gross miscalculation IMO. Some people have already decided not to use V4. This action, without notice to the community even, will only reinforce that sentiment further.

Not to mention that millions of broken links are going to make it look like OsCommerce is definitely dead 😞 We should have left the apps directory in place and presented it as an archive area while placing a banner indicating that a new version of OsCommerce is available, creating the new apps directory for V4 separately, like everyone would have been happy.

You have a nice life. I hopenyou are able to find what you need.

I mean these two fields for your active sales channel:

So I have now solved my shipping cost issues and want to share what I have done. My store in particular sells high end goods. So it was important for me to get the shipping costs correct. So Northern Ireland, Scotland, England & Wales have there own shipping costs. There are many ways to handle the shipping costs but there is nothing that can do it based on where the customer lives. This can be extended to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland also. Even a seperate one for Jersey, Guernsey if needed. Step 1 First step you need to visit settings>Locations>Geo Zones Step2 Create your Geo Zone Shipping Areas. In my case I create Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Free Shipping (This is the free shipping for the UK and Wales) So drilling down into the Northern Ireland Geo Zone I can enter all of the Counties Here Step 3 So now I want to create a new shipping module for Northern Ireland only and only for people that live in these counties So now we access via FTP or CPANEL of what ever you use Lib>Common>modules>ordershipping Here I will take a copy of flat.php and this will be the Northern Ireland shipping module I rename it to NI.php and modify the following important values: Class XX extends Moduleshipping { 'the XX has to be unique for any new shipping module' In this case I change it to NI The next important steps are anything that contains MODULE_SHIPPING_XXXXXXX. Rename XXXXXX to be your new shipping module name. In my case I have chosen NI. Change this for all values in the file. example class NI extends ModuleShipping { var $code, $title, $description, $icon, $enabled; protected $defaultTranslationArray = [ 'MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_TEXT_TITLE' => 'NI Rate', 'MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_TEXT_DESCRIPTION' => 'NI Rate', 'MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_TEXT_WAY' => 'Northern Ireland' ]; // class constructor function __construct() { parent::__construct(); $this->code = 'NI'; $this->title = MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_TEXT_TITLE; $this->description = MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_TEXT_DESCRIPTION; if (!defined('MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_STATUS')) { $this->enabled = false; return; } $this->sort_order = MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_SORT_ORDER; $this->icon = ''; $this->tax_class = MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_TAX_CLASS; $this->enabled = ((MODULE_SHIPPING_NI_STATUS == 'True') ? true : false); Step4 Once you have changed all of the values save your changes. Now move that file back into the Lib>Common>modules>ordershipping folder Step5 Now head to modules>shipping>offline and click show not installed. The file you created will be shown below. Click intsall The result is as follows Attach you new Geo Zone to it And make sure it is enabled for checkout etc... Now when a customer orders an item from my store they will be charged the correct shipping rate. This is how I am doing it and for me it works as I need it to work If a customer lives in Scotland lets say Aberdeen then when they enter the county the shipping will be applied or freeshipping for Bedfordshire Make sure you select United Kingdom in the settings Hope it helps

Andy is right - the template key is working fine in the latest 4.11 version. It is right fix, we will include it in the next update. Thanks Andy, you are right again. Your fix will be included in the next update. It will be fixed in the update, which we are going to release this week.

You can place any name for product url in the SEO Page name field. For auto naming you can run SQL like this: UPDATE products SET products_seo_page_name = CONTACT('some_name-p-',products_id,'.html')

Hi Mendoh, Please find attached the original themes you can import. Best regards, Ivan watch.zip furniture.zip splash.zip printshop.zip deals.zip

Hmmm! It seems further tests have shown that the mod rewrite function with IONOS is not functioning/can’t get it to work on their server. Thanks very much to Andrei’s dedicated work in tracking this down. It seems I’m now left with the choice of having to choose another hosting company to host on my own with. Can anyone please provide any hosts that you have successfully installed and run OSC4 on? Thank you, Lorraine

Hi Ken, Regarding adding products please see the link below. https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Managing_Products Regarding Fill in Contact Information for the "Contact on web site" please see the screenshots below. Regarding Create Sales Tax only for the State of Ohio in the USA please create the tax zone for this state, then create a tax class and finally create and assign the tax rate to these tax zone and tax class. Please see the link below how to do it. Also please make sure this tax rate is assigned to all the products. https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Managing_Taxes Best regards, Ivan

I agree its overwhelming. I actually stayed away from update because of the complexity of the add page. And I'm not fond of the tab order. However, if you have been around long enough you will get to appreciate the update. Just use the tabs you need and go on with development. I have actually had to go back and use more of the tabs to add more features to my listings. I have over 1000 products so it's substantial.

Thank you @pandrei- Sorted it eventually.... Xampp comes with an email system called Mercury, However, to get mercury to work a few changes are required to the Xampp Apache php.ini file and the xampp sendmail.ini files as well as a small change to one of the settings on mercury admin panel. This is a good guide to the .ini file changes: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-configure-xampp-to-send-mail-from-localhost-using-php/ and this is the change required to the mercury admin (see the post on unchecking the box on the mercury settings) : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6809369/warning-mail-function-mail-smtp-server-response-553-we-do-not-relay-non-l Hope this may help someone else

You have to create a symlink for each sales channel in this way: cd /www/wwwroot/demo-v4.mysite.com ln -s ./ watch ln -s ./ furniture ln -s ./ printshop ln -s ./ b2b-supermarket

Hello Pandrei, Thank you for your support. Yes, you were right, also the sales channels also behaved as you described. The hint with the configuration was the key to success. Adding just the Apache settings was not sufficient. I also found out that some software packages were missing. I didn't look there in the first place as the Pre-installation Check did not show any missing parts. Now the channels and the backend access work as expected. Regards, Gerhard

While the osCommerce team are working hard on adding apps to the App Shop, we have decided to make ALL available osCommerce-made applications free in the App Shop until the 1st of January 2023. You're welcome to download any app via the App shop, and use it to build your own osCommerce site or such for your client. Your feedback is highly appreciated. With best wishes, osCommerce team

I think that it is only fair that those who wish to continue with OsCommerce 2.3 continue working on it and thus we will have two versions of oscommerce. OsCommerce 2.3 is easier to modify and for companies that have to make constant changes in the code, they are more adapted and everything is easier for them I have a saying "What is beautiful excites, what I practice sells" everything has to be practical first. The best eCommerce ideas over 20 years are in these contributions.

@Ivan Holbi please consider if you can upload a video of how a theme is created

https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Design_Technologies_and_Creating_Theme if you find anything else please share it in this post. i am finding it very hard to figure out (learn) how the new themes and layout works. where things are, what does what. etc. i will figure it out (but i feel others wont) i really think its important for devs. to focus help content like how to videos on the subject, even if its a simple screen cap. of doing stuff so people can reference it. without people being able to mod the looks of their site they wont use it. i will try share what i can learn, and leave a end user guide to help the next person if i can. (no disrespect intended, just feedback)

Yes, it is great to move on new one, to make it more secure, but is it necessary to disable the old addons link? I learn the oscommerce and addons knowlege by view old addons in the past few years, and ask helps from forum, you took this option away. I learned C++ 20 years ago, compare to now, will you comment it that it is old, so not useful? And after all, it is up to website owners to design what version they like to move on. Beside, your link to new apps, not thing is working yet. Maybe admin can disable the old addons after confirm the new apps area works properly.

The problem is that you have removed access to addons from V2 and V4 has no addons available. Almost no store works with the default configuration. Each store has its specificities and needs certain addons to live and develop while waiting to be able to use V4. For many of us, the online store is the only source of income. Without the necessary addons, the revenue stream drops or stagnates, which is not in our interest. A V4 without addons is of little interest except to become familiar with its operation, but that's not what brings money into our pockets.

To make it easier for everyone to start with the new version of osCommerce, we have implemented a so called "try before use" approach. It is not your usual "try before buy" as osCommerce is free. And so, to allow merchants and developers spend time on learning new features we made it possible for everyone to have osCommerce installed on one of our servers, FREE of charge. FTP and DB access provided! There, you will be able to try all the new features of osCommerce and not worry about server software or configurations. https://www.oscommerce.com/host-with-oscommerce Once you know osCommerce is for you (or for your clients) - you will be able to move your copy, with all of your changes and settings - to your own server or stay and keep using osCommerce hosting - the choice is yours. You're given at least 1 month to work with osCommerce and decide how to proceed with it. More info is available in this blog post: https://www.oscommerce.com/blog/try-before-use-oscommerce Any questions - please post them here! More updates to come!

Totally! In fact it is already available for download off the main website. It is just the forum post has not been posted yet as we are dealing with some minor teething issues. Once those are all resolved we will be updating the Forum accordingly.

I agree totally - and i am convinced only by making / keeping the old apps available we can build back a vivid community for V4. Old V2 users will never come back once they find out there is nothing for them left here ... By engaging them in the OSC V2 they can learn about V4 - and step up to V4... Just my 2 cents.

Here's the latest version I have - USPS Rate V4 Intl Rate V2_r3.6. USPS Rate V4 Intl Rate V2_r3.6.zip

I wish I had known to check the forums a long time ago, because I updated the USPS module myself to the rate api v4, and intl rate api v2, and I did all the work of upgrading to https all by myself. I think you'll like my solution to the service names problem. Back when I upgraded the module in 2020 I wrote some regular expressions to match the basic service types without having to worry about whether it was Priority Mail one-day, or two-day (let alone whether it was TM or RM), and since that time it still works without me having to modify those regexes to keep up with USPS' changes. The only caveat is that my module assumes you have access to commercial plus pricing. The other downside is that the allowed service types are hard coded into the module instead of having radio button selections of which services are allowed. usps.php

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lNUTKEz2iwsqv4gQ1WJiCP-0bF1cm_1QD7jKDvNvi9U/edit#gid=0