New and excited

[DavidR]

I have developed sites using Windows/IIS/ASP for a long time and only recently became excited about Linux/Apache/PHP and MySQL. I am dizzy from trying to wrap my brain around all this new stuff but I love it! Now I find this incredible ecommerce app with full community of support as well. So, I guess I will dig in but I would appreciate a couple of answers for what may be obvious questions. I have searched the forum and scanned (not seriously read yet) the CVS docs - there is a lot to learn.

 

1) Should I ignore the CVS stuff until I am far enough along to start contributing? i.e., if I want to build a test site for limited use in order to learn OSC, do I need to be versed in what the CVS is all about or can I learn that later?

 

2) If yes above, can I delete all the CVS folders I find in the snapshot downloads? I'm not familiar enough to know what is important to keep and what is only for CVS.

 

3) I see a lot of discussion about the modules available. Is there a central location for these? Are the "contributions" modules that have been made available in the CVS somewhere?

 

PHP is already a lot more fun because of the people involved. I can't wait until I am able to add to the work. Thanks!

 

David

[♥olby]

Should I ignore CVS:

About 1:

I have, but now its cathing up - have to learn after 4 month

About 2:

Sure - you can delete all that you want - but why? When you learn CVS the will be come in handy.

About 3:

Look here:

http://www.oscommerce.com/downloads.php/contributions

[DavidR]

Thanks much olby. I guess I should go ahead and dig into the cvs docs first, then I think the other stuff will make more sense. Thanks for the link I obviously missed completely on contributions. Nice bunch of mods. I'll be around with more questions and hopefully input. Take care.

 

David