The Big Picture on Architecture and API Docs

[vtatila]

Hi,

I'm just starting out with OS Commerce and PHP in general but am familiar with some other programming languages such as Java, Perl and C++ as well as SQL to a certain extend.

 

I'm trying to interface with some external systems as well, but only for certain product times and not all products on offer. How would I do this in OS Commerce that is what kind of external interfaces are there and where's the API been documented? Also what's the best way of going about adding category specific handling for certain products in PHP? In the long run, I might need to write some modules, too.

 

Basically all of my questions boil down to the OS COmmerce architecture and documentation. I have a hard time grasping the big picture as there appears to be no proper documentation regarding what the various files and classes do. And add to this my newbieness in PHP <smiley>. I've attempted to generate some basic docs with Doxygen but they don't seem to be of much help at least so far neither are some of the SQL dumps I did on the command line. So, where should I start looking through the files and is it really true the various APIs internal or external to OS Commerce haven't been documented yet? I've browsed through the FAQ and the docs available on the site with no luck so far.

 

Any help greatly appreciated as always. Oh . and in case what I'm asking has been discussed to death already, feel free to point out any earlier threads, FAQ entries etc... that might be relevant. I'd appreciate direct links, though.

 

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[Guest]

You'll have to start with application_top.php and work your way down through the scripts to get a good grasp of logic flow.

 

There is no documentation of the API nor architecture for osCommerce. Hopefully that will change in the future but don't hold your breathe.

 

Bobby