Hedgehogpr Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 I'd like to find some answers to the following questions but am not sure where to look after spending 4 hours playing with different forum and site search strings! This might not be the correct forum area for this, if not, sorry please moderator, can you move it to the correct one? I will be running MacOS 10.3.2 and therefore apache, php and mysql. I have a little PHP experience and extensive static html knowledge. The sites I build are hosted by third party companies. Do they have to be running oscommerce on their servers or just be able to support the 'AMP' setup? What I really want out of oscommerce is a wish list cart with no ability to purchase online but an ability to email that list to a customer specified address and an ability to print it. Further down the line it also needs the ability to be emailed to a dealer which the customer chooses from a dropdown list. How much of a modification of osc is this? How much design control does osc give you (css styles?) how much would I have to modify pages to achieve the individual designs my clients demand? Any information gratefully received, many thanks. Tess Hedgehog Marketing UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahui Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 I will be running MacOS 10.3.2 and therefore apache, php and mysql. I have a little PHP experience and extensive static html knowledge. I had none at all, but with a bit of hands on the will zo scceed and this excellant board I think anyone can manage it. The sites I build are hosted by third party companies. Do they have to be running oscommerce on their servers or just be able to support the 'AMP' setup? not sure if I unrestand right ut if you have the ability to create an empty mysql db and have acces to it like by phpmyadmin, and ftp access than you should ber fine might be some more questions like which apache php mods are running and which not, maybe somone expeirenced could pop in here. What I really want out of oscommerce is a wish list cart with no ability to purchase online but an ability to email that list to a customer specified address and an ability to print it. Further down the line it also needs the ability to be emailed to a dealer which the customer chooses from a dropdown list. How much of a modification of osc is this? How much design control does osc give you (css styles?) how much would I have to modify pages to achieve the individual designs my clients demand? there has been a lot written about design, just search the board, and concerning the wishlist, osc has more than 2600 contributions and a wishlist as well, but what you are looking for is using it as an e-catalogue? with requsting offer instead of ordering? this has beendeiscussed recenty, serach e catalog. happy osCing dahui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Do they have to be running oscommerce on their servers or just be able to support the 'AMP' setup? not sure what the 'AMP setup is, but it's designed to run on the server it's hosted on. I've seen some cases where the database is on a different server, though. None of the rest of what you are asking for in included with osCommerce by default. There's a contribution for a 'wishlist' that you can install, but it looks to me like you're going to need to do quite a bit of php coding to get this cart to do what you want. I'd say if you're willing to take the time to learn php, none of what you are asking for would be very difficult. But I doubt you'd be able to do it without first learning php. It would probably take pretty close to intermediate php programming skills to accomplish this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogpr Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 not sure what the 'AMP setup is, but it's designed to run on the server it's hosted on. I've seen some cases where the database is on a different server, though. None of the rest of what you are asking for in included with osCommerce by default. There's a contribution for a 'wishlist' that you can install, but it looks to me like you're going to need to do quite a bit of php coding to get this cart to do what you want. I'd say if you're willing to take the time to learn php, none of what you are asking for would be very difficult. But I doubt you'd be able to do it without first learning php. It would probably take pretty close to intermediate php programming skills to accomplish this. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry - a bad case of shorthand, A=Apache M=MySQL P=PHP, a combination which my current hosting company does support. Sounds like my hosting company needs to be running osc on their server for me to be able to use it, or I need to be hosting the site myself (huge learning curve!) Thanks for the input on this. I know its a cheeky question but there isn't any other CMS type projects that could do what I'm asking without too many modifications are there? I've trawled through www.opensourcecms.com demo site but barring asking the question on every single project forum I'm not sure how else to find out what will work for me (other than installing MacOS 10.3 and knuckling down with a couple of good PHP books!) Cheers Tess Hedgehog Marketing UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlr1001 Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 Sounds like my hosting company needs to be running osc on their server for me to be able to use it, or I need to be hosting the site myself (huge learning curve!) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think there some confusion on everyone's part. Based on the statement above, I'd have to correct you. All you need is ftp access to your hosting account. You upload the current version of oscommerce, and then install it by browsing to the appropriate script . . . (which would be explained in the install documentation). All your host has to run is the appropriate version of php and mysql. Oh, of course, you'll need to create an empty mysql database and input its host, database name, user, and password info as you install OsCommerce. So, no, your host doesn't have to run OSC on its server because it's not a shared application. You install it in your web space, provided your host is running the required php version, mysql, etc. Hope that makes sense. -jlr1001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgehogpr Posted September 7, 2005 Author Share Posted September 7, 2005 If I have to FTP the current version of osc to my hosting company's server and then install it I am installing software on their server. I do not have privileges to install software on their servers, nor do I have privileges (I believe) to set up users, or passwords or otherwise configure their copy of mysql. I don't have a dedicated server or anything fancy like that... I understand that they create a user and password for me for their mysql server with which I interact and connect to my database. Now you've got me curious, I'll have to check how that works... Thanks for all the input Tess Hedgehog Marketing UK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanR Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 If I have to FTP the current version of osc to my hosting company's server and then install it I am installing software on their server. I do not have privileges to install software on their servers, nor do I have privileges (I believe) to set up users, or passwords or otherwise configure their copy of mysql. I don't have a dedicated server or anything fancy like that... I understand that they create a user and password for me for their mysql server with which I interact and connect to my database. Now you've got me curious, I'll have to check how that works... Thanks for all the input Tess Hedgehog Marketing UK <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If they didn't allow you to install "software" (osC is php scripting) then there would be no point in giving you mySQL. I'd say there's a 99.9% chance that you can run osC on your server. Local: Mac OS X 10.5.8 - Apache 2.2/php 5.3.0/MySQL 5.4.10 • Web Servers: Linux Tools: BBEdit, Coda, Versions (Subversion), Sequel Pro (db management) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlr1001 Posted September 7, 2005 Share Posted September 7, 2005 What hosting company are you using? Do you have a url for their website? Like Alan said, I'm sure you can install the software and I'd be happy to look at your webhost to see if that's the case. -J.L. p.s. Do you own the hedgehogmarketing.com domain? If so, it's about to expire. If not, I'd look into getting it. If I have to FTP the current version of osc to my hosting company's server and then install it I am installing software on their server. I do not have privileges to install software on their servers, nor do I have privileges (I believe) to set up users, or passwords or otherwise configure their copy of mysql. I don't have a dedicated server or anything fancy like that... I understand that they create a user and password for me for their mysql server with which I interact and connect to my database. Now you've got me curious, I'll have to check how that works... Thanks for all the input Tess Hedgehog Marketing UK <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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