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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!

It is the final countdown to osCommerce v4!!!

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.

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!

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

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.

Hello, thank you! 😉 Yes, some part of our team had to move to Europe when war started, some of us - went to army to defend our country, and all others - alive and still working.

https://www.oscommerce.com/the-team Today I'm immensely proud to announce release of the latest version of osCommerce (4.09). Every release of your product is important, sure. But today's is a special one. As tomorrow, on the 24th, we will be reflecting on what a year in war means for us all, personally, and for our business. During that year my colleagues, most of whom are in Ukraine, were able to not only look after their families and close ones, but also work hard and very efficiently, creating and supporting multiple solutions for our international clients AND launching osCommerce 4 AND releasing its updates too. To me it demonstrates the power of will of my team, their perseverance, dedication, and strong faith in the great future of osCommerce!

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')

I found it! It is in Design & CMS > Translation > Search VAT and in the "TEXT_INC_VAT" key you can edit it and change "VAT" to "Tax". SOLVED! Hope this helps someone else before they pull their hair out!

If you install this on XAMPP for windows, you have to manually add the symlinks for the demo shops. To do this start a cmd.exe session with administrator privileges. Go tot the directory where you have oscommerce installed (in my example "c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog") then add the following commands mklink -D watch c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog mklink -D furniture c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog mklink -D printshop c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog mklink -D b2b-supermarket c:\xampp\htdocs\catalog

@osCommerce-OfficialI tried installing V4 onto my local wamp server. At the start of the install there was a message that said V4 wouldn't run when apache was on Windows. I went ahead and tried it and the splash page did show up but the admin displays a denied message. I asked Andrei about it and he said it should work but to post here if I couldn't get it going. I checked all of the listed requirements and they are present. Not being able to run this locally will cause a lot of extra work and delays for developers, at least for me. Is there a way to get this to work?

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

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

osCommerce 4.02 has been released. Download your own or use "Host with osCommerce" to have it installed on one of our servers for you. New features, changes, and fixes are described in osCommerce Wiki: https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Change_Log To upgrade from osCommerce 4.01 proceed with the following: 1. Connect to the App Shop: https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Connecting_to_App_Shop 2. Choose the "System Update" tab of the App Shop menu 3. Press the "Update now" button to initiate the update Work on osCommerce continues. osCommerce development team has a pipeline of tasks for many more months. Our immediate priority is adding Apps to the App Shop, and making it possible for developers and designers upload their own Apps there - free and paid.

I stumbled across this topic and I have to say it's good that you're outlining why people should move to OSCommerce. Sadly though, after a good few weeks since it's official launch, OSC4 is a nightmare to understand straight out of the box and also a challenge to create a store exactly how you want to appear and function. One main area where it fails is the documentation. There are a lot of features included which have no documentation on the official wiki page. The wiki is very bare-bones and most screenshots do not represent the actual release (on the admin side). We (the users) need guidance. This is totally new to the community. I'm impressed with the amount of included features and options, but when you look at them, there's no detail as to what they do or are intended to do. I have managed to work some stuff out myself but it was a long process. I understand this is a new project and there are some things that will be improved over the next year or so but this has been in development and beta for some time and I feel personally that it will put a lot of potential users off moving to the platform. Please don't feel this is an attack on what you're doing. I really like what you're doing but just if it was explained more with maybe some video tutorials. We haven't worked with this software as long as you guys have so we need more help.

Now we are talking! Enterprise-level features here. Stock. Suppliers. Warehouses! Read on to find out how osCommerce does it and why a real-life business shall seriously consider switching to osCommerce.Stock is managed in a number of different ways in osCommerce. Overall stock is the total quantity of items available to sell. Allocated stock is stock that was sold but not dispatched yet. Temp stock - stock in the shopping carts (optional). Warehouse stock - all stock in the warehouse. Supplier stock - stock available in principle from suppliers, via product feeds. And Ordered stock - stock on purchase orders. Sounds complicated? Well, it is not that much difficult to understand as it replicates any business's real-life situation with stock management. osCommerce goes several steps further, actually. It supports Suppliers and supplier product feeds, supplier price settings, etc. It supports multiple Suppliers for the same product. osCommerce supports multiple warehouses. I.e. you can have stock of the same product located in different warehouses, and can move stock between the warehouses. Or between locations in one and the same warehouse. Finally, those stock settings can be made unique for each variation of the main product, i.e. for each individual SKU. Nice isn't it?

I also checked the wiki on creating a theme from scratch. I am just not there yet.... I know what has happened with this project as I am guilty of it myself... The development team knows this product so well that they cannot see it with 'outside' eyes. To them everything is logical, makes sense and is easy to use. From the outside, we do not have the understanding to appreciate this and rather we see something that is hard to use, complicated, and quite honestly, annoying. You guys have created a fighter jet and we are trying to learn how to fly it. Unfortunately we have only flown an old biplane and all the gizmos and functions are beyond us. We need to work up to it in stages. As I suggested before, it might be helpful to create an old-style look and feel template so we can at least have a starting point that is familiar. I do not like the old-style, but I do understand it. If I can see the widget that is used to generate a certain feature, then I will be in a better position to learn, edit, modify, be happy, and sleep well. O... and how do I create and edit a plain and simple home page? At present I can't seem to create a landing page that I can edit. I can create a page that is the landing, but I can't seem to edit the text. I can edit text on other pages though. I am also unable to get the store physical address to display.

Hi, Regarding separate category images for the main category and the sub category please see the newly created article how to manage it - https://wiki.oscommerce.com/index.php?title=Adding_Images_to_Categories_and_Subcategories. Please make sure you add the required images to all your required categories and subcategories. Regarding having a buy button on the product listing page if your products are variation ones (for example, they have colours and sizes) it is not available on the product listing page in the tile view, but it is available in the list view. Please see the screenshot below. Best regards, Ivan

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.

Yes, you as admin can decide what you want, but as user like us, when we are not ready to move on the new plate form and it is not right you just disable the old addons while we are still rely on those addons to make our old version website working. Also we have the right to use old version, you just dont need to support, why need to disable the old addone links? The reason we use oscommerce these years is that lots of experts here gave their great support free and share their addons free. If you want to make money, that is fair enough, but not continue to support the old version website and disable addons, yes, I feel like we are abandoned and not respected. After this frustrated and disappointed new update, I dont think I will not continue to use osCommerce any more. And special Thank You to the old version Oscommerce and experts who kindly share their time, knowledge and help, sorry you did not earn money from me but you earn respect from me.

What is osCommerce 4.0? How it was created and why? What is the team behind osCommerce? How was osCommerce released during the war in Ukraine? All of this and more in the video interview, done by David Goodale of Merchant Accounts (Canada): Visit https://www.merchant-accounts.ca/oscommerce-version-4-re-building-the-classic-open-source-e-commerce-platform.php for the full video and transcript!

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.

We will not be able to answer each and every one, so here're the answers to all of your respected comments and questions. 1. Old osCommerce 2.x is an obsolete piece of software, it uses old tech and shall not be used to run a business. 2. We will never try to MAKE someone move to the new version of osCommerce, however it looks like a sensible business decision for every business that runs an online shop or develops such 3. Unfortunately same goes for the old modules and apps. They were great, but they are old and obsolete. 4. We will never try to shut down anyone who created apps for the old osCommerce or offers support for those, however creating them for a new osCommerce is a reasonable business decision 5. There will be merchants and developers who will want to keep using old osCommerce and reject new osCommerce. That's fine. Change is difficult. Not from the software point of view, but more like going out of the comfort zone. 6. We can not and will not make everyone like the new version, and new business, the new osCommerce. IT IS OK! 7. Those who do want progress, who want to have a business (be it merchants, designers, developers, consultants - anyone!) - we welcome you on our journey to a successful future! P.S. Old apps will become available via FTP shortly.

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

Thank you very much ! I am having fun testing the different demos and I found one thing that really bothers me and that will be a big brake on the purchase. For example here: https://demo.oscommerce.com/furniture/erin-trundle-bed-with-pocket-spring-mattresses When I want to see the details of "12 month Warranty" and "Pay on delivery", I go on a new page with no possibility to return to the product I wanted to buy. I think it would be better to put the information in a pop-up, so I would stay on the product page and I could buy it easily if the information provided suits me.

Valqui, thanks for your comments! We are working on updating the whole of the eco-system of osCommerce. Some old parts that have not been used for years will be removed, some existing parts will be replaced. Announcements to come shortly. The main point is release of the new osCommerce v4 that is coming in just a few weeks from now. Open source and free.

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

If you use a currency other than Pound/Dollar/Euro then you will need to go to Admin -> Settings -> Localization -> Curruncies. This interface is simple and self explanatory. Its also very similar to V2 osCommerce. You should not have a problem adding/deleting currencies here, or setting them as Active and/or as default. Next you need to go to Admin -> Sales channels Click on the channel that you're using / configuring the currencies for. Click Edit. Scroll down to Languages & Currencies. Click Change. Make the necessary changes and click Apply. Lastly click Save at the bottom of the Sales channel page.